Licence classes, fees and novice rules

Payable to Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, through the Registrar of Motor Vehicles.

A Class G1, G2 or M2 licence is not renewed in the ordinary sense of paying a fee for another term. The holder must requalify — retaking the applicable examinations — before the 5-year term runs out, and again on the same cycle after that; the regulation states this is the only route to keep one of those three classes current. A Class M1 licence cannot be renewed at all: once its 90 days run out without a booked road test, the holder starts over. Full Class G and Class M licences fall outside that requalification rule and renew in the ordinary way, on a term the regulation does not fix at a single standard length.

A Class G1, G2 or M2 licence is not renewed in the ordinary sense — it is REQUALIFIED within the six months before its five-year expiry, and every five years thereafter, by retaking the applicable examinations (s. 28(15)-(18)); it "is not renewable except" by that route (s. 28(19)). A Class M1 licence is not renewable at all (s. 28(20)). Full Class G and M licences fall outside the s. 28(19) restriction and are renewable in the ordinary way, and s. 23.1 is what governs that renewal: such a licence "may be renewed for a specified period of not less than 12 months and not more than 84 months after the expiry date shown on the licence". There is therefore no single standard term to state: the Regulation authorises a range of one to seven years, and the period is chosen at each renewal within that range. That fits HTA s. 5.0.1 paragraph 1, which prices the licence fee per six-month period rather than for a fixed multi-year term.