Questions / Licensing and G1
Answer first · reviewed August 2026
What are the passenger rules for a G1 driver?
Every occupant must have a working seat belt, and you must have a qualified accompanying driver in the front passenger seat. The number of passengers cannot exceed the available seat belts.
Make it practical
What to do
Keep early practice drives quiet and simple. A car full of enthusiastic cousins is a social event, not an ideal first lesson.
Easy to miss
The common trap
Letting a passenger distract, coach or contradict the accompanying driver.
Turn knowledge into a habit
How to practise it
Put the official requirement into a simple timeline, including eligibility, waiting periods and your expiry date. Administrative surprises are rarely educational.
When a rule, road sign or examiner instruction conflicts with an internet tip, use the official rule and the safe decision. The internet has many talents; wearing a reflective examiner vest is not one of them.
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