What should I do if my Northern Ireland Blue Badge is lost or stolen?

Apply for a replacement through the Northern Ireland Blue Badge replacement service if your badge is lost or stolen.

A replacement application requires identifying details and a current photograph; nidirect currently lists a £10 replacement fee. If a lost badge is later recovered after replacement, the old one must be returned.

For “What should I do if my Northern Ireland Blue Badge is lost or stolen?”, 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 — “What should I do if my Northern Ireland Blue Badge is lost or stolen?” — the practical point is: Do not continue using a badge reported lost or replaced. 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 “What should I do if my Northern Ireland Blue Badge is lost or stolen?” 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.