Driving in Grenada
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Saint Lucia on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
81 exceptions recorded across 33 countries · none match Saint Lucia to Grenada · Driving and licence exchange
A visitor drives on a temporary licence. The Licensing Authority may grant one for up to three months to a bona fide visitor who is competent to drive, with or without a test and with or without photographs. A valid international driving licence issued under a convention Grenada adheres to displaces the requirement altogether. And a CARICOM licence is recognised - but with a proviso that reverses the usual direction: the recognition applies only to someone ordinarily resident in Grenada who was resident in the issuing state for more than six months when the licence was issued, so it is a rule for residents rather than for visitors. A Grenadian licence costs EC$100 for a year or EC$270 for three and expires on your birthday.
At a glance
- Visitor's temporary licence
- Up to 3 months
Section 54(1) of the Road Traffic Act. The Licensing Authority may dispense with a driving test and with photographs.
- Fee for the temporary licence
- Not stated in the Act
Section 54(1) refers to the prescribed fee. The First Schedule as published and as amended by S.R.O. 6 of 2024 contains motor vehicle licence fees, driving licence fees by class and four miscellaneous fees, and none of them is a temporary or visitor's licence. We publish no figure.
- International driving licence
- Exempts you from holding a Grenadian licence
Section 54(2), while the licence remains valid, for the classes you are authorised to drive in the issuing country, on payment of the prescribed fee.
- CARICOM licence
- Recognised, but only for residents of Grenada
Section 54(4) and its second proviso. The exemption applies only to a person ordinarily resident in Grenada who had been resident in the issuing CARICOM state for a continuous period exceeding six months when the licence was issued.
- Private car licence
- EC$100 for one year, EC$270 for three
Part II of the First Schedule to the Road Traffic Act, class B. A motorcycle licence must be applied for separately and costs EC$75 or EC$200.
- Expiry
- Your birthday
Section 46(1): a licence expires on its anniversary date and, when renewed, on the first or third birthday of the applicant after the renewal, with the fee calculated pro rata to the next birthday.
- Motor car licence fee from 1 July 2024
- EC$175 to EC$350 by engine size
Part I of the First Schedule as substituted by S.R.O. 6 of 2024, which also priced electric cars by battery capacity and taxed a bicycle at EC$75.
Requirements
- For a visitor: a temporary driving licence from the Licensing Authority, valid up to three months, granted on proof that you are a bona fide visitor and competent to drive
- Or a valid international driving licence issued under a convention Grenada adheres to, which exempts you from needing a Grenadian one
- For a resident with a CARICOM licence: ordinary residence in Grenada and more than six months of residence in the issuing state when the licence was granted
- For a Grenadian licence: the fee for the class, with the first or third birthday after renewal as the expiry date
In detail
The visitor's licence
Section 54(1) is short and permissive. The Licensing Authority may grant a temporary driving licence for up to three months to someone shown to be a bona fide visitor and competent to drive, and may do so without requiring a test or photographs. The licence carries whatever conditions are stipulated on it and a prescribed fee. What that fee is, we cannot tell you: the First Schedule sets motor vehicle licence fees, driving licence fees by class, and four miscellaneous fees for inspection, registration and register entries, and a temporary licence is in none of them. The 2024 instrument that rewrote Part I of the Schedule did not add one either.
CARICOM recognition that runs the wrong way
Subsection (4) says the holder of a licence from another CARICOM member state is exempt from needing a Grenadian one. Then the second proviso restricts the exemption to a person who is ordinarily resident in Grenada and who, when the CARICOM licence was issued, had been resident in that state for more than six months continuously. The effect is backwards from what a reader expects. A Trinidadian on holiday is not covered and should get a temporary licence; a Trinidadian who has moved to Grenada permanently is covered and may keep driving on their home licence indefinitely. The provision is about immigrants, not tourists, and it quietly excludes anyone who acquired a CARICOM licence while merely visiting the state that issued it.
What the OECS says, and what the Act says
The OECS Commission lists mutual recognition of driving licences among the benefits of the free movement regime: a citizen of a Protocol Member State may drive in any other using their home licence. The Road Traffic Act contains no OECS provision at all. What it contains is the CARICOM provision in section 54(4), with its residence proviso, which covers the same people by a different route and on different terms. Where the two differ we record the Act as Grenadian law and the Commission's statement as the Commission's.
Country-level policy
Grenada publishes its law well, in two halves that do not meet. The Chapters are the Continuous Revised Edition of 2010, and most of them are amended only to the mid-2000s: the Immigration Act stops at Act 6 of 2007, the Citizenship Act at Act 31 of 2002, the Income Tax Act at Act 2 of 2010. The Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders since are published separately, by year, as enacted. Nothing in either half tells you that the other exists. Read the Immigration Chapter and you will not know that Eastern Caribbean citizens have an indefinite stay or that Schengen passports enter visa-free. Read the Income Tax Chapter and you will take the rate as thirty per cent when it is twenty-eight. Read the Banking Chapter and you will be reading an Act repealed in 2015.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Saint Lucia
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«The Licensing Authority may grant a temporary driving licence for a period not exceeding three months to any applicant for the same when it is shown to his or her satisfaction that the applicant is a bona fide visitor to the State and is competent to drive.»The next sentence allows the licence to be granted without a driving test and without photographs, subject to the conditions on the licence and to the prescribed fee.
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«The holder of an international driving licence issued elsewhere than in the State in accordance with any International Convention with respect to the international circulation of motor vehicles to which the State adheres shall, whilst the licence remains valid, be exempted from any requirement to hold a driving licence under this Act»The Act does not name the conventions it adheres to, so which international permits qualify is not answerable from the statute.
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The Government of Grenada's law portal. Publishes the Continuous Revised Edition of 2010 arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and separately a year-by-year run of Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders as enacted from 2011.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«The holder of a driving licence issued in any of the other member states of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) shall, while such licence remains valid, be exempted from any requirement to hold a driving licence issued under this Act to drive in the State:»Read alone this looks like ordinary mutual recognition. The second proviso turns it into something else.
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The Government of Grenada's law portal. Publishes the Continuous Revised Edition of 2010 arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and separately a year-by-year run of Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders as enacted from 2011.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«Provided further that the exemption under this section only applies to a person who is ordinarily resident in Grenada and who at the time when the person was issued a licence in a CARICOM State had been resident in that State for a continuous period exceeding six months.»A CARICOM visitor is outside this and needs a temporary licence under subsection (1). The recognition is for people who have moved here, not for people passing through, which is the opposite of how mutual recognition usually works.
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The Government of Grenada's law portal. Publishes the Continuous Revised Edition of 2010 arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and separately a year-by-year run of Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders as enacted from 2011.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«(b) when renewed, expires on the first or third birthday, as the case may be, of the applicant after such renewal.»With section 46(2), which prorates the first fee to the next birthday after the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act 2002.
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The Government of Grenada's law portal. Publishes the Continuous Revised Edition of 2010 arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and separately a year-by-year run of Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders as enacted from 2011.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«| 2. | B | Private motor car | 100 | 270 |»The one-year and three-year fees. Class G, all classes except motorcycles and quadbikes, is EC$150 and EC$420.
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The Government of Grenada's law portal. Publishes the Continuous Revised Edition of 2010 arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and separately a year-by-year run of Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders as enacted from 2011.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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«| 3. Motor car (with an internal combustion engine only) and hybrid motor car (with both an internal combustion engine and an electric motor)— — up to 1 000 cc | 175 |»In force 1 July 2024. It replaces Part I only, so the driving licence fees in Part II are untouched and no temporary licence fee was added.
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The Government of Grenada's law portal. Publishes the Continuous Revised Edition of 2010 arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and separately a year-by-year run of Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders as enacted from 2011.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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Practical notes
No fee for a visitor's or temporary driving licence appears in the First Schedule as published or as amended by S.R.O. 6 of 2024. Figures circulate in travel material and none is stated here.
The Road Traffic Act has been amended by Acts in 2015, 2017 twice, 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2024, and by Regulations in 2023 and 2024. We read the Chapter in full, S.R.O. 6 of 2024 and the titles of the rest. An amendment we did not read could have added a temporary licence fee or changed the driving licence fees in Part II.
Section 54(2) exempts the holder of an international driving licence issued under a convention the State adheres to. Nothing in the Act names those conventions and we did not establish which international permits Grenada accepts.
Nothing we read sets out a procedure for converting a foreign licence to a Grenadian one, or any exchange arrangement with a named country.
- consolidatesRoad Traffic Act, Chapter 289A, Continuous Revised Edition of the Laws of Grenada 2010
Laws of Grenada · consolidated to 2010
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Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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- consolidatesRoad Traffic (Amendment of First Schedule) Regulations, 2024 (S.R.O. No. 6 of 2024)
Laws of Grenada
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The Government of Grenada's law portal. Publishes the Continuous Revised Edition of 2010 arranged by Chapter, each Chapter printing the Act with its subsidiary legislation, and separately a year-by-year run of Acts and Statutory Rules and Orders as enacted from 2011.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A Chapter must never be cited for what the law is now, and nothing on the page says so: the Immigration Chapter is amended only to 2007 and lacks the OECS indefinite stay and the Schengen visa waiver; the Citizenship Chapter stops at 2002 and shows section 5A as repealed when an Act of 2016 has since filled it; the Income Tax Chapter prints 30 per cent when three Orders have made it 28 and 10; the Banking Chapter is an Act repealed in 2015. Subsidiary legislation printed inside a Chapter is equally frozen - the CARICOM skills Qualifications Order is shown as amended to 2008 and the 2015 amendment that added artisans and domestic workers is invisible. It must also not be cited for completeness after 2025: the 2026 collections hold five Acts and three instruments, and an amendment the investment agency publicly relied on in August 2026 is in neither. The Citizenship by Investment Act is not in the revised edition at all and has no consolidated text anywhere. Year listings paginate twenty at a time, so reading only the first page loses instruments.
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- administersFree Movement of Persons Regime in the Eastern Caribbean
Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Commission
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Administers the Eastern Caribbean economic union and its free-movement regime, and describes what member states have agreed to implement.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It must not be cited for any member's law. Where we have checked, only a handful of its claims are mirrored in a national statute: its statements about identity-card travel, driving-licence recognition, social-security portability and third-country spouses had no implementing provision we could find, and must be attributed to the Commission rather than to a country. A programme it describes as being implemented is not in force by virtue of being described.
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