Sri Lanka Driving Licence Fee Calculator (DMT)

The calculator implements the Department of Motor Traffic (DMT) published fee schedule under the Motor Traffic Act No. 14 of 1951 (as amended), and adds the National Transport Medical Institute (NTMI) medical-fitness-test fee where required. Every rupee figure is held as a named constant in the underlying data module with a source URL and a LAST_VERIFIED date, so the page is straightforward to re-validate against the live DMT schedule.

Six steps build the total:

1. Base licence-issue fee. The flat DMT fee for the chosen service — new issue (Rs 1,300), renewal (Rs 1,300), duplicate (Rs 800), add-a-class (Rs 1,300), foreign-licence conversion (Rs 4,500), or learner permit (Rs 500).
2. Per-class practical trial fee. When the service requires a trial, DMT charges Rs 1,000 per light class (A1, A, B1, B, G1, G, J) and Rs 1,400 per heavy class (C1, C, CE, D1, D). The trial is conducted on the vehicle type for the class being tested.
3. Additional-class incremental fee. Only for new-issue and add-a-class services. For each class beyond the first selected in the same application, DMT adds Rs 700 on top of the base issue fee.
4. NTMI medical certificate. Standard test — Rs 750 for light-only applicants. Extended test — Rs 1,200 if any heavy class is included. The certificate is valid for 6 months and must be obtained before the DMT practical trial.
5. Postal sub-station handling. If you collect the card at a district DMT sub-station outside Werahera, DMT adds Rs 200 per application.
6. Cross-check.The page recomputes the total by an independent ‘sum-of-constants’ formula and compares it to the line-by-line sum. The header badge flips to ‘Recompute mismatch’ if they ever disagree — a guardrail for future fee edits.

The total is then split into three payment buckets — what to pay at the DMT counter, what to pay at NTMI, and what to pay at the Bank of Ceylon or People's Bank counter — so the trip itself can be planned accurately. The district selector is informational; the licence fee is uniform nationwide. For the vehicle's annual revenue licence (the tax on the vehicle, not the driver), use the Sri Lanka Vehicle Revenue Licence Calculator instead — they are distinct fees often confused with each other.

• Department of Motor Traffic — Services & Fees schedule
• Department of Motor Traffic — Driving Licence Classes (A, B, C, D, G, J)
• National Transport Medical Institute — medical-fitness fee schedule
• Department of Motor Traffic of Sri Lanka — official site

Fees on this page were last cross-checked against the DMT and NTMI published schedules on 2026-05-16. The legal basis is the Motor Traffic Act No. 14 of 1951 and the regulations gazetted under it; DMT revises its fee schedule by gazette extraordinary from time to time and this page is updated when a revision is published.