How do I surrender a Northern Ireland driving licence voluntarily for medical reasons?

If a doctor advises you not to drive, you can voluntarily surrender your Northern Ireland licence to DVA by following the medical surrender process.

nidirect says voluntary surrender can have advantages if you later become medically fit and apply to return to driving.

For “How do I surrender a Northern Ireland driving licence voluntarily for medical reasons?”, the wider Northern Ireland context is this: Northern Ireland licensing in these cases is handled by DVA, not DVLA. Age or disability alone does not decide whether someone may drive: the key questions are licence validity, medical fitness, any DVA restrictions and, for Blue Badge matters, the specific parking scheme rules. Current nidirect/DVA guidance should therefore be checked rather than assuming Great Britain procedures are identical.

For this exact question — “How do I surrender a Northern Ireland driving licence voluntarily for medical reasons?” — the practical point is: Send the required licence documents and covering information to DVA and stop driving in accordance with medical advice. The answer should be applied to the actual signs, conditions, licence wording or parking rules in force at the time, because temporary restrictions and individual DVA decisions can change the ordinary position.

This Northern Ireland-specific page on “How do I surrender a Northern Ireland driving licence voluntarily for medical reasons?” was checked against the attached official sources before publication, with nidirect/DVA and the Northern Ireland Highway Code used ahead of generic UK motoring articles. If the rule, road layout or personal licence condition changes, those primary sources are the ones to re-check.