License a taxi or private-hire service

---
type: "Service Family"
title: "License a taxi or private-hire service"
description: "Apply to the responsible licensing authority for the driver, vehicle or operator role and retain checks, conditions and appeal information."
status: "population-complete"
assertion_status: "normalized"
jurisdiction: "nation-specific"
observed_at: "2026-08-08"
sources:
  - id: "public-and-private-transport-source-register"
    title: "Public and private transport"
    resource: "../source/domain-registers/public-and-private-transport.v1.yaml"
    author: "organisation:okf-uk-living"
    observed_at: "2026-08-08"
---

# License a taxi or private-hire service

## Place in the process

This topic sits within **Obtain accessible and community mobility** in the **Public and private transport** life-course
domain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first
safe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.

## What this family covers

Apply to the responsible licensing authority for the driver, vehicle or operator role and retain checks, conditions and appeal information.

The ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow
the responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the
confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.

## If the ordinary route does not fit

If a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals
an urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's
exception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.

Where a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.

## Official routes

- [England: Taxi driver licences](https://www.gov.uk/taxi-driver-licence)
- [Scotland: Transport and travel in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/driving-transport)
- [Wales: Transport in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/transport)
- [Northern Ireland: Travel, transport and roads in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/travel-transport-and-roads)

These are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a
handoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,
deadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.

## What may follow

The result can feed the next family in **Obtain accessible and community mobility**, another enclosing
process, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the
ordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.

## Review status

This record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review
before any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is
described as release-grade.