NTSA driving licence and vehicle services
Driving licences, logbook transfers, vehicle search, inspection, plates and PSV licences. Answers come from NTSA's own pages.
Most asked
- Renew your driving licence (smart DL)
- Get your first driving licence
- Switch to the smart driving licence (from the old red licence)
- Transfer vehicle ownership (logbook transfer)
- Motor vehicle inspection with NTSA
- Pay an instant traffic fine (minor traffic offence)
- Pay Nairobi County parking fees (daily, seasonal) and clamping charges
- Add a bank or lender to a logbook when buying a car on credit (asset financing in-charge)
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- Add a bank or lender to a logbook when buying a car on credit (asset financing in-charge)
- Add a class to your driving licence (endorsement)
- Appeal a KCAA decision or take an airline dispute to the National Civil Aviation Administrative Review Tribunal
- Appeal an NTSA licensing decision at the Transport Licensing Appeals Board
- Apply for a voluntary NTSA e-sticker for your vehicle
- Apply for an airport security pass (temporary or permanent)
- Boda boda and motorcycle riders: licence, registration and taxi rules
- Book a Madaraka Express (SGR) train ticket
- Book and sit the NTSA driving test (and choose a driving school)
- Can police tow or impound your vehicle, and who pays to get it back?
- Can the family sue after a relative dies in an accident?
- Change your vehicle's particulars (colour, engine, body) with NTSA
- Check current fuel pump prices (EPRA monthly review)
- Check KURA ongoing and planned urban road projects
- Check the status of a road project and who to ask
- Choose an NTSA-licensed driving school
- Common traffic offences: pavements, passengers and losing your licence
- Complain about a rural road or a KeRRA service
- Complain about an airline or air travel service to KCAA
- Complain about an insurance company to IRA
- Complain to Kenya Railways
- Complain to NTSA
- Convert a foreign or international driving licence to a Kenyan one
- Deregister a motor vehicle with NTSA
- Do a motor vehicle search (NTSA copy of records)
- Drink-driving: what the law says
- Drive a foreign-registered vehicle in Kenya temporarily (Form C32, carnet and foreign permit)
- Driving licence classes (categories) and what each lets you drive
- Driving licence renewal taking long: check it and get your renewal slip
- Driving licence suspended by NTSA: get the reasons and challenge it
- Driving without a driving licence: what the law says
- Get a DCI motor vehicle examination (inspection)
- Get a gratis (Category G) driving licence as exempted volunteer or technical staff
- Get a Kenyan driving licence as a diplomatic card holder
- Get a PSV badge (matatu driver or conductor)
- Get an aircraft or ship radio station licence
- Get an axle load exemption permit for an abnormal or oversize load (KeNHA)
- Get and download your eLogbook
- Get your first driving licence
- Import a car duty-free as a person with disability
- Import a used car into Kenya
- Is it compulsory to wear a seat belt, even in a matatu?
- Is there a warranty on car repairs?
- Kenya Coast Guard: emergency hotline, stations and boat safety
- License a matatu or other PSV (road service licence)
- License a small vessel or boat (passenger and tourist boats)
- Matatu and bus rules: touting, stages and fare refunds
- Mombasa commuter train (SGR link train): times and fare
- Motor vehicle inspection with NTSA
- Nairobi Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lines and progress
- Nairobi commuter train: routes, tickets and payment
- NTSA offices by town: where to find an NTSA office near you
- Pay an instant traffic fine (minor traffic offence)
- Pay Kakamega County parking fees (daily, seasonal) and clamping charges
- Pay Kiambu County parking fees (daily, monthly, quarterly) and clamping charges
- Pay Kilifi County parking fees (daily, monthly and yearly) and clamping charges
- Pay Kisumu County parking fees (daily, monthly stickers) and clamping charges
- Pay Machakos County parking fees (daily and yearly) and clamping charges
- Pay Meru County parking fees
- Pay Mombasa County parking fees (daily, monthly and yearly) and clamping charges
- Pay Nairobi County parking fees (daily, seasonal) and clamping charges
- Pay Nakuru County parking fees (daily and monthly) and clamping charges
- Pay parking fees in Baringo County
- Pay parking fees in Bomet County
- Pay parking fees in Bungoma County
- Pay parking fees in Busia County
- Pay parking fees in Elgeyo Marakwet County
- Pay parking fees in Embu County
- Pay parking fees in Homa Bay County
- Pay parking fees in Kajiado County
- Pay parking fees in Kericho County
- Pay parking fees in Kirinyaga County
- Pay parking fees in Kisii County
- Pay parking fees in Kitui County
- Pay parking fees in Kwale County
- Pay parking fees in Laikipia County
- Pay parking fees in Makueni County
- Pay parking fees in Mandera County
- Pay parking fees in Murang'a County
- Pay parking fees in Nandi County
- Pay parking fees in Narok County
- Pay parking fees in Nyamira County
- Pay parking fees in Nyandarua County
- Pay parking fees in Samburu County
- Pay parking fees in Taita Taveta County
- Pay parking fees in Tana River County
- Pay parking fees in Tharaka Nithi County
- Pay parking fees in Trans Nzoia County
- Pay parking fees in Turkana County
- Pay parking fees in Uasin Gishu County (Eldoret)
- Pay parking fees in Vihiga County
- Pay street parking fees in Nyeri County
- Place a caveat on a motor vehicle (NTSA)
- PSV and lorry drivers: driving hours and the 3-year driving test
- Re-register a deregistered vehicle with NTSA
- Reckless, careless and dangerous driving: the penalties
- Recover an item lost at JKIA or another KAA airport (lost and found)
- Register a drone and get permission to fly it
- Register a new or imported vehicle and get its logbook
- Register a ship or boat in Kenya (Certificate of Kenya Registry)
- Remove a bank or financier from your logbook (logbook discharge)
- Renew your driving licence (smart DL)
- Replace a lost or damaged driving licence (duplicate DL)
- Replace a lost or damaged logbook (duplicate logbook)
- Replace lost or damaged number plates, or get special and personalised plates
- Report a marine emergency or ask for search and rescue (RMRCC Mombasa)
- Report a problem or incident on an urban road (KURA)
- Report a road emergency or damage on a national highway (KeNHA)
- Report an aviation safety occurrence or security incident to KCAA
- Someone else crashed my car: who pays?
- Speed limits and speeding penalties
- Switch to the smart driving licence (from the old red licence)
- Take the Kisumu, Nanyuki or Nyahururu safari train
- Third-party motor insurance: what the law requires
- Transfer vehicle ownership (logbook transfer)
- What must a driver do after a road accident?
- Who maintains roads: the county or the national government?
- Will the other driver's insurance pay for damage to my car?