---
id: "au_driver_license"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["pii", "persons"]
country: ["AU"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 75
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/au_driver_license"
---

# Australian driver's license number (`au_driver_license`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Number of a driving licence issued in Australia. Microsoft Purview looks for the formats of all states and territories: six to ten digits, six letters and digits, or digit groups separated by spaces or hyphens.

- Parent datatype: `driver_license`
- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Personally identifiable information (pii), Person related (persons)
- Countries: Australia (AU)
- Languages: English (en)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:\d{6,10}|[A-Z0-9]{6}|\d{2}[ -]?\d{2}[ -]?\d{4}|\d{3}[ -]?\d{3}[ -]?\d{3,4}|\d[ -]?\d{3}[ -]?\d{3}[ -]?\d{3})$
```

## Mappings

- dpv: `pd:OfficialID`
- purview: `Australia Driver's License Number`

## Supported by tools

- `amazonmacie`
- `awsglue`
- `azureailanguage`
- `microsoftpurview`
- `nightfall`
- `snowflake`

## Sources

- doc: <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/sit-defn-australia-drivers-license-number>

## Quality

Score 75/100. Missing: examples, negative example, translation.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/au_driver_license.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/AU/persons/au_driver_license.yaml>