Both P1 provisional licence holders and P2 provisional licence holders are banned from driving high performance vehicles that have:

  • a power to tare mass ratio of greater than 130kW per tonne
  • modified engines that need to be approved by an engineer, or other vehicles classified as high performance.

If you're a P1 or P2 provisional licence holder and want to check if you're allowed to drive a certain vehicle, you can do this online.

You can use any combination of the following vehicle details to search:

  • make
  • model
  • badge, or
  • year of manufacture.
Last updated: 25 March 2024