Change personal details on your driver licence and vehicle registration

To change your name, you must supply original documents. Copies or certified copies will not be accepted.

MVR will verify the documents you submit through the Australian Government's document verification service. To find out more, go to the Australian Government's ID Match website.

If the documents can’t be verified, MVR can’t process the name change.

Documents that must be verified include:

• a marriage certificate - to change from your family name to your married partner’s family name
• a change of name certificate.

The following documents will not be accepted as evidence for name change:

• relationship certificate
• overseas marriage certificate
• statutory declaration and
• commemorative marriage certificate.

For individuals

To change your name on your driver licence and registration certificate, you must go to an MVR office with:

• your evidence of identity and residency - at least one category A and 2 category B documents, or 2 category A documents and one category B document and
• a change of name certificate issued by an Australian Births, Deaths and Marriages office.

Change of family name due to marriage

To change your family name to your partner’s family name after getting married, you must go to an MVR office with:

• your evidence of identity and residency - at least one category A and 2 category B documents, or 2 category A documents and one category B document and
• one of the following documents issued by an Australian Births, Deaths and Marriages office:
  • marriage certificate - if you're adopting your partner's family name
  • change of name certificate - if you're changing your family name to a name that is not your partner’s family name
    • including if you intend to blend, hyphenate or combine your family name with your partner’s family name.

You can only use a marriage certificate to adopt your married partner’s family name.

Change of family name due to divorce

To change your name from your married partner’s family name back to your previously-known family name, you must go to an MVR office with:

• court-issued divorce papers
• evidence of identity in your previously-known family name (such as your birth certificate)
• your marriage certificate to link your former married partner’s family name to the name appearing on your evidence of identity documents, unless the names are stated in your divorce papers.

You can update your address or contact details by any of the below.

Online

You can update your address and contact details on the MVR Quick Pay or through the NT Rego app.

To change your address and contact details online, you will need your MVR Customer ID and your:

• licence number or
• registration number.

You can find your MVR Customer ID on your renewal notice.

In person

You can change your details by visiting:

• a local participating Australia Post outlet
• if you update your residential address at an Australia Post outlet, you will only get a replacement licence if you’re completing another licence transaction, such as a licence renewal
• or an MVR office.

By phone

You can change your details by calling 1300 654 628.

By email

You can change your contact details by sending the following to mvr@nt.gov.au:

• your new details and
• a scanned copy of the front and back of your current NT licence.

By mail

You can change your contact details by writing to:

Motor Vehicle Registry
GPO Box 530
Darwin NT 0801

You must include your new details and a scanned copy of the front and back of your current NT licence.