Medical requirements for driving
If you have any of the diseases or disabilities listed below, you must supply a medical report when applying for a driving licence.
- Alcoholism
- Any physical disability likely to affect your ability to drive safely
- Any illness that requires you to regularly use psychotropic drugs
- Any illness or disease that requires you to regularly take medication likely to affect your ability to drive safely
- Cardiovascular diseases (those relating to the heart and blood system), diabetes, serious diseases of the blood
- Diplopia (double vision), defective binocular vision (vision with both eyes) or loss of visual field
- Encephalitis, multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis or hereditary diseases of the nervous system associated with progressive muscular atrophy (wasting) and congenital myotonic disorders (disorders from birth that make it difficult to relax muscles after contracting them)
- Epilepsy, diseases of the peripheral nervous system (the nerves in the body outside the brain and spinal cord), trauma of the central or peripheral nervous system
- Cerebrovascular diseases (those relating to blood vessels in the brain), lesion with damage to spinal cord and resulting paraplegia (loss of movement in the legs)
- Mental disturbance due to disease of trauma to, or operation on the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord)
- Severe mental retardation, psychosis, psychoneurosis or personality disorders
- Serious hearing difficulties
- Any disease of the genito-urinary system (including kidney disorder) that is likely to affect ability to drive safely