Two Countries in the World Exchange a Licence Into Iceland Without a Test, and the Regulation Prints Both Their Names: Japan and the United Arab Emirates
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Lithuania on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
195 exceptions recorded across 74 countries · none match Lithuania to Iceland · Driving and licence exchange
The Traffic Act 77/2019 says almost nothing about foreign licences. Section 62 hands the whole subject to the minister, who may decide that a licence issued in another EEA state continues to be valid after the holder settles here and that a licence from any other state is valid where Icelandic licences are accepted there. Everything a driver needs is therefore in Regulation 830/2011 on driving licences, last amended on 22 June 2026. A licence from an EEA state or from the Faroe Islands lets the holder drive the AM, A1, A2, A and B categories in Iceland for as long as it is valid in the issuing country, but no longer than the holder's seventieth birthday. A licence from anywhere else is good for 12 months, must be in Latin letters or carry a translation into Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish or English, and gives no right to carry passengers or goods commercially. Exchanging a non-EEA licence for an Icelandic one means sitting the theory test for category B and a practical test for every category applied for - unless the issuing state has asked Samgongustofa to allow exchange without a test and has satisfied it that its training and testing are no less demanding than Iceland's. Two states have done so, and the regulation prints their names in a table with a single column: Japan and the United Arab Emirates.
At a glance
- EEA or Faroese licence
- Valid for AM, A1, A2, A and B as long as it is valid at home, but never past the holder's 70th birthday
Article 29(1) of Regulation 830/2011. The Faroe Islands are named beside the EEA states, as they are in the work-permit Act.
- Licence from anywhere else
- 12 months
Article 29(2) of Regulation 830/2011. Article 29(4) adds that it gives no right to drive at all unless the holder meets the Icelandic minimum age for the vehicle.
- Exchange without a test
- Only from Japan and the United Arab Emiratesas of 2026-06-22
Article 31 of Regulation 830/2011. The table has one column, headed name of state, and those are the only two entries.
- What exchange from anywhere else costs
- The theory test for category B plus a practical test for every category applied for
Article 31 of Regulation 830/2011. The name of the issuing state must then be written on the Icelandic licence, and on every later renewal or replacement of it.
- Commercial driving on a foreign licence
- Not allowed, except on an EEA licence or one from a state that has implemented Directives 2006/126/EC and 2003/59/EC under an agreement with the EU
Article 29(3) of Regulation 830/2011. Where such a licence carries C1, C, D1 or D with a different validity period from the Icelandic one, it must be renewed within two years of taking up fixed residence here.
- An expired EEA licence
- More than two years out of date means a driving-ability test before an Icelandic licence is issued
Article 31 of Regulation 830/2011, referring to the test in article 15.
- A licence obtained abroad on a short trip
- Cannot be exchanged at all if you are resident here and were abroad less than six months
Article 31, final paragraph of Regulation 830/2011, for a licence issued outside the EEA or the Faroe Islands.
- Nordic provisional permits
- A temporary driving authorisation or tourist licence issued in Denmark, Finland, Norway or Sweden stands in place of a licence
Article 29(5) of Regulation 830/2011. Iceland is not in the list because the article is about documents issued elsewhere.
Requirements
- For an EEA or Faroese licence: nothing - it is valid for AM, A1, A2, A and B until it expires or you turn 70
- For any other licence: 12 months from taking up residence, in Latin letters or with a translation into Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish or English
- To exchange a non-EEA licence: the theory test for category B and a practical test for each category, unless the issuing state is in the table
- The foreign licence itself, a photograph, a declaration of fixed residence here, and a declaration that you hold no EEA licence and are not under any restriction or disqualification
- For a non-EEA and non-Faroese licence, a health declaration or medical certificate as well
In detail
A list of two, and what it takes to get on it
The table in article 31 is not a list of countries Iceland trusts. It is a list of countries that asked. The regulation says a state may seek authorisation for exchange without a test, that Samgongustofa then assesses whether the conditions are met, that the necessary material about the state's driving instruction and driving test must be before it, and that the benchmark is that the requirements for issuing a licence there are no less lenient than Iceland's and that traffic conditions otherwise justify the decision. If the conditions are met, the state's name goes in the table. Two names are in it. Everyone else from outside the EEA sits the theory test and a practical test per category, however long they have been driving.
The Faroe Islands again
Article 29(1) puts the Faroe Islands beside the EEA states for the validity of a licence, and the final paragraph of article 31 puts them beside the EEA again for the anti-licence-shopping rule. The Faroes are in neither the Union nor the EEA. This is the third place in the Icelandic statute book where they are treated as if they were - the other two are the work-permit exemption in section 22(a) and the labour-market test in section 7(1)(a) of the Foreign Nationals' Right to Work Act.
The six-month rule exists to stop licence shopping
The last paragraph of article 31 catches the person who already lives in Iceland, goes abroad briefly, obtains a licence in a non-EEA country and comes back expecting to exchange it. Less than six months abroad and the exchange is refused outright. It is a small provision and it is the kind of thing that only appears in a regulation after somebody tried it.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Lithuania
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
«Ráðherra setur reglur um þau skilyrði sem þeir sem dveljast hér á landi og hafa eigi íslenskt ökuskírteini þurfa að fullnægja til að mega stjórna vélknúnu ökutæki, þ.m.t. hvaða skilyrði handhafi erlends ökuskírteinis þarf að uppfylla til að fá íslenskt ökuskírteini.»Our translation - not official
The minister shall make rules on the conditions that persons staying in this country who do not hold an Icelandic driving licence must meet in order to drive a motor vehicle, including what conditions the holder of a foreign driving licence must meet in order to obtain an Icelandic driving licence.
The whole of the subject is delegated. The Act states no period, no category and no country.
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The consolidated collection of Icelandic Acts, published under section 9 of the Act on Stjornartidindi and the Legal Gazette 15/2005. The minister is responsible for publishing it and a three-member editorial board appointed for five years at a time oversees it, one member nominated by the Speaker of Althingi; it is hosted on the parliament's own site. Each edition carries a number and a date - the one read here is Utgafa 158a, Islensk log 1. oktober 2026 - and an Act is served at a pinned address of the form https://www.althingi.is/lagas/<edition>/<year><number>.html, with /lagas/nuna/ as an always-latest alias. Every Act's header prints the date it came into force and a Breytt med line naming every amending Act with its own commencement. Amending Acts are worked into the parent Act, new Acts are added and repealed Acts are removed at each update. Passages inserted or substituted by a later Act are printed inside square brackets with a numbered footnote naming the amending Act and section, and repealed provisions are printed as an ellipsis with the same kind of footnote, so the page shows what has gone as well as what is there. Treaties given the force of law are printed in full as schedules, which is how the EEA Agreement and the Nordic Convention on Social Security are readable in Icelandic inside the statute book. The parliament separately serves each Act as passed at https://www.althingi.is/altext/stjt/<year>.<number>.html.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
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«Ökuskírteini sem gefið er út í ríki sem er aðili að Evrópska efnahagssvæðinu eða í Færeyjum veitir handhafanum rétt til að stjórna sömu ökutækjum hér á landi fyrir AM-, A1-, A2-, A- og B-flokk og það heimilar að stjórna í útgáfulandinu á gildistíma þess, þó ekki lengur en til 70 ára aldurs handhafans.»Our translation - not official
A driving licence issued in a state party to the European Economic Area or in the Faroe Islands gives the holder the right to drive in this country, in categories AM, A1, A2, A and B, the same vehicles it permits him to drive in the issuing country for as long as it is valid, but no longer than until the holder reaches the age of 70.
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The Icelandic collection of regulations, served at island.is/reglugerdir/nr/<4-digit number>-<year>; the older address reglugerd.is/reglugerdir/allar/nr/<number>-<year> redirects to it and the two store identical text. Each record prints the regulation number, its title, the full consolidated text with later amendments worked in, and a header line giving either the date of last amendment - Reglugerd med breytingum sidast breytt 22. juni 2026 for the driving-licence regulation - or a Stofnreglugerd marker. A Syna breytingar link carries the date of the version being shown, and a Fyrri utgafa link the date of the one before it, so the version history is navigable by date.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The collection is subordinate to the gazette by its own notice: regulations are published in Division B of Stjornartidindi under section 3 of Act 15/2005, and the footer on every page says that where the text in the collection and the text published in Division B diverge, the latter governs. The version date is not always stated in words. The driving-licence regulation 830/2011 prints Reglugerd med breytingum sidast breytt 22. juni 2026; Reglugerd um utlendinga 540/2017 prints Stofnreglugerd, Reglugerd an breytinga, which is wrong on its face - that regulation has been amended at least by 1048/2020 and 818/2022, both named in the lagasafn's footnotes - and the only version date on the page is inside the Syna breytingar link, 2025-06-19. A cut-off taken from that link is an inference from a URL rather than from a sentence, and should be treated as the weaker of the two forms. The collection also keeps regulations alive that the parent Act has overtaken: chapter II of 540/2017 still grants and conditions a long-term visa that Act 37/2026 repealed in May 2026, and article 22(2) of that Act is what keeps it operative.
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«Ökuskírteini sem gefið er út í ríki sem er ekki aðili að Evrópska efnahagssvæðinu, svo og ökuskírteini sem gefið er út á grundvelli slíks ökuskírteinis, veitir handhafanum rétt til að stjórna sömu ökutækjum hér á landi og það heimilar að stjórna í útgáfulandinu í allt að 12 mánuði»Our translation - not official
A driving licence issued in a state that is not party to the European Economic Area, and a driving licence issued on the basis of such a licence, gives the holder the right to drive in this country the same vehicles it permits him to drive in the issuing country for up to 12 months
The sentence ends with cross-references to the third and fourth paragraphs and to article 52(8).
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The Icelandic collection of regulations, served at island.is/reglugerdir/nr/<4-digit number>-<year>; the older address reglugerd.is/reglugerdir/allar/nr/<number>-<year> redirects to it and the two store identical text. Each record prints the regulation number, its title, the full consolidated text with later amendments worked in, and a header line giving either the date of last amendment - Reglugerd med breytingum sidast breytt 22. juni 2026 for the driving-licence regulation - or a Stofnreglugerd marker. A Syna breytingar link carries the date of the version being shown, and a Fyrri utgafa link the date of the one before it, so the version history is navigable by date.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The collection is subordinate to the gazette by its own notice: regulations are published in Division B of Stjornartidindi under section 3 of Act 15/2005, and the footer on every page says that where the text in the collection and the text published in Division B diverge, the latter governs. The version date is not always stated in words. The driving-licence regulation 830/2011 prints Reglugerd med breytingum sidast breytt 22. juni 2026; Reglugerd um utlendinga 540/2017 prints Stofnreglugerd, Reglugerd an breytinga, which is wrong on its face - that regulation has been amended at least by 1048/2020 and 818/2022, both named in the lagasafn's footnotes - and the only version date on the page is inside the Syna breytingar link, 2025-06-19. A cut-off taken from that link is an inference from a URL rather than from a sentence, and should be treated as the weaker of the two forms. The collection also keeps regulations alive that the parent Act has overtaken: chapter II of 540/2017 still grants and conditions a long-term visa that Act 37/2026 repealed in May 2026, and article 22(2) of that Act is what keeps it operative.
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«Þegar íslenskt ökuskírteini er gefið út í stað erlends ökuskírteinis, sem gefið er út í ríki sem ekki er aðili að Evrópska efnahagssvæðinu, þarf umsækjandi að þreyta bóklegt próf fyrir B-flokk og jafnframt verklegt próf fyrir hvern ökuréttindaflokk sem umsóknin varðar.»Our translation - not official
Where an Icelandic driving licence is issued in place of a foreign driving licence issued in a state that is not party to the European Economic Area, the applicant must sit the theory test for category B and also a practical test for each licence category the application concerns.
The following sentences let a state ask for exchange without a test and require Samgongustofa to assess whether its training and testing requirements are no less demanding than Iceland's and whether traffic conditions there otherwise justify the decision.
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The Icelandic collection of regulations, served at island.is/reglugerdir/nr/<4-digit number>-<year>; the older address reglugerd.is/reglugerdir/allar/nr/<number>-<year> redirects to it and the two store identical text. Each record prints the regulation number, its title, the full consolidated text with later amendments worked in, and a header line giving either the date of last amendment - Reglugerd med breytingum sidast breytt 22. juni 2026 for the driving-licence regulation - or a Stofnreglugerd marker. A Syna breytingar link carries the date of the version being shown, and a Fyrri utgafa link the date of the one before it, so the version history is navigable by date.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The collection is subordinate to the gazette by its own notice: regulations are published in Division B of Stjornartidindi under section 3 of Act 15/2005, and the footer on every page says that where the text in the collection and the text published in Division B diverge, the latter governs. The version date is not always stated in words. The driving-licence regulation 830/2011 prints Reglugerd med breytingum sidast breytt 22. juni 2026; Reglugerd um utlendinga 540/2017 prints Stofnreglugerd, Reglugerd an breytinga, which is wrong on its face - that regulation has been amended at least by 1048/2020 and 818/2022, both named in the lagasafn's footnotes - and the only version date on the page is inside the Syna breytingar link, 2025-06-19. A cut-off taken from that link is an inference from a URL rather than from a sentence, and should be treated as the weaker of the two forms. The collection also keeps regulations alive that the parent Act has overtaken: chapter II of 540/2017 still grants and conditions a long-term visa that Act 37/2026 repealed in May 2026, and article 22(2) of that Act is what keeps it operative.
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«Nafn ríkis Japan Sameinuðu arabísku furstadæmin»Our translation - not official
Name of state. Japan. The United Arab Emirates.
The whole of the table, reproduced here in full. It has one column and two rows.
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The Icelandic collection of regulations, served at island.is/reglugerdir/nr/<4-digit number>-<year>; the older address reglugerd.is/reglugerdir/allar/nr/<number>-<year> redirects to it and the two store identical text. Each record prints the regulation number, its title, the full consolidated text with later amendments worked in, and a header line giving either the date of last amendment - Reglugerd med breytingum sidast breytt 22. juni 2026 for the driving-licence regulation - or a Stofnreglugerd marker. A Syna breytingar link carries the date of the version being shown, and a Fyrri utgafa link the date of the one before it, so the version history is navigable by date.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The collection is subordinate to the gazette by its own notice: regulations are published in Division B of Stjornartidindi under section 3 of Act 15/2005, and the footer on every page says that where the text in the collection and the text published in Division B diverge, the latter governs. The version date is not always stated in words. The driving-licence regulation 830/2011 prints Reglugerd med breytingum sidast breytt 22. juni 2026; Reglugerd um utlendinga 540/2017 prints Stofnreglugerd, Reglugerd an breytinga, which is wrong on its face - that regulation has been amended at least by 1048/2020 and 818/2022, both named in the lagasafn's footnotes - and the only version date on the page is inside the Syna breytingar link, 2025-06-19. A cut-off taken from that link is an inference from a URL rather than from a sentence, and should be treated as the weaker of the two forms. The collection also keeps regulations alive that the parent Act has overtaken: chapter II of 540/2017 still grants and conditions a long-term visa that Act 37/2026 repealed in May 2026, and article 22(2) of that Act is what keeps it operative.
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«Ökuskírteini, gefið út utan Evrópska efnahagssvæðisins, þarf að vera með latneskum bókstöfum eða skírteininu þarf að fylgja þýðing texta þess á íslensku, dönsku, norsku, sænsku eða ensku.»Our translation - not official
A driving licence issued outside the European Economic Area must be in Latin letters, or the licence must be accompanied by a translation of its text into Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish or English.
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The Icelandic collection of regulations, served at island.is/reglugerdir/nr/<4-digit number>-<year>; the older address reglugerd.is/reglugerdir/allar/nr/<number>-<year> redirects to it and the two store identical text. Each record prints the regulation number, its title, the full consolidated text with later amendments worked in, and a header line giving either the date of last amendment - Reglugerd med breytingum sidast breytt 22. juni 2026 for the driving-licence regulation - or a Stofnreglugerd marker. A Syna breytingar link carries the date of the version being shown, and a Fyrri utgafa link the date of the one before it, so the version history is navigable by date.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The collection is subordinate to the gazette by its own notice: regulations are published in Division B of Stjornartidindi under section 3 of Act 15/2005, and the footer on every page says that where the text in the collection and the text published in Division B diverge, the latter governs. The version date is not always stated in words. The driving-licence regulation 830/2011 prints Reglugerd med breytingum sidast breytt 22. juni 2026; Reglugerd um utlendinga 540/2017 prints Stofnreglugerd, Reglugerd an breytinga, which is wrong on its face - that regulation has been amended at least by 1048/2020 and 818/2022, both named in the lagasafn's footnotes - and the only version date on the page is inside the Syna breytingar link, 2025-06-19. A cut-off taken from that link is an inference from a URL rather than from a sentence, and should be treated as the weaker of the two forms. The collection also keeps regulations alive that the parent Act has overtaken: chapter II of 540/2017 still grants and conditions a long-term visa that Act 37/2026 repealed in May 2026, and article 22(2) of that Act is what keeps it operative.
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«Í stað ökuskírteinis gildir akstursheimild til bráðabirgða eða ökuskírteini fyrir ferðamenn, gefin út í Danmörku, Finnlandi, Noregi eða Svíþjóð.»Our translation - not official
A temporary driving authorisation or a tourist driving licence issued in Denmark, Finland, Norway or Sweden stands in place of a driving licence.
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The Icelandic collection of regulations, served at island.is/reglugerdir/nr/<4-digit number>-<year>; the older address reglugerd.is/reglugerdir/allar/nr/<number>-<year> redirects to it and the two store identical text. Each record prints the regulation number, its title, the full consolidated text with later amendments worked in, and a header line giving either the date of last amendment - Reglugerd med breytingum sidast breytt 22. juni 2026 for the driving-licence regulation - or a Stofnreglugerd marker. A Syna breytingar link carries the date of the version being shown, and a Fyrri utgafa link the date of the one before it, so the version history is navigable by date.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The collection is subordinate to the gazette by its own notice: regulations are published in Division B of Stjornartidindi under section 3 of Act 15/2005, and the footer on every page says that where the text in the collection and the text published in Division B diverge, the latter governs. The version date is not always stated in words. The driving-licence regulation 830/2011 prints Reglugerd med breytingum sidast breytt 22. juni 2026; Reglugerd um utlendinga 540/2017 prints Stofnreglugerd, Reglugerd an breytinga, which is wrong on its face - that regulation has been amended at least by 1048/2020 and 818/2022, both named in the lagasafn's footnotes - and the only version date on the page is inside the Syna breytingar link, 2025-06-19. A cut-off taken from that link is an inference from a URL rather than from a sentence, and should be treated as the weaker of the two forms. The collection also keeps regulations alive that the parent Act has overtaken: chapter II of 540/2017 still grants and conditions a long-term visa that Act 37/2026 repealed in May 2026, and article 22(2) of that Act is what keeps it operative.
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«Nú hefur sá fengið útgefið erlent ökuskírteini í ríki utan Evrópska efnahagssvæðisins eða Færeyja sem hefur fasta búsetu hér á landi og dvalið hefur erlendis skemur en í 6 mánuði. Getur hann þá ekki fengið því skipt fyrir íslenskt ökuskírteini.»Our translation - not official
Where a person with a fixed residence in this country has obtained a foreign driving licence in a state outside the European Economic Area or the Faroe Islands and has stayed abroad for less than 6 months, he cannot have it exchanged for an Icelandic driving licence.
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The Icelandic collection of regulations, served at island.is/reglugerdir/nr/<4-digit number>-<year>; the older address reglugerd.is/reglugerdir/allar/nr/<number>-<year> redirects to it and the two store identical text. Each record prints the regulation number, its title, the full consolidated text with later amendments worked in, and a header line giving either the date of last amendment - Reglugerd med breytingum sidast breytt 22. juni 2026 for the driving-licence regulation - or a Stofnreglugerd marker. A Syna breytingar link carries the date of the version being shown, and a Fyrri utgafa link the date of the one before it, so the version history is navigable by date.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The collection is subordinate to the gazette by its own notice: regulations are published in Division B of Stjornartidindi under section 3 of Act 15/2005, and the footer on every page says that where the text in the collection and the text published in Division B diverge, the latter governs. The version date is not always stated in words. The driving-licence regulation 830/2011 prints Reglugerd med breytingum sidast breytt 22. juni 2026; Reglugerd um utlendinga 540/2017 prints Stofnreglugerd, Reglugerd an breytinga, which is wrong on its face - that regulation has been amended at least by 1048/2020 and 818/2022, both named in the lagasafn's footnotes - and the only version date on the page is inside the Syna breytingar link, 2025-06-19. A cut-off taken from that link is an inference from a URL rather than from a sentence, and should be treated as the weaker of the two forms. The collection also keeps regulations alive that the parent Act has overtaken: chapter II of 540/2017 still grants and conditions a long-term visa that Act 37/2026 repealed in May 2026, and article 22(2) of that Act is what keeps it operative.
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Practical notes
The claim that the exchange-without-test table contains only Japan and the United Arab Emirates rests on the table as printed in the reading of 11 October 2026 of the regulation last amended on 22 June 2026. Nothing published by Samgongustofa was read, and an administrative list kept elsewhere would not be visible here.
Article 52(8), referred to in article 29(2), was not read.
No fee is published here. Article 49 of the regulation refers to a tariff and the amount is set under the Act on the state's additional revenues, which was not read.
Regulation 830/2011 implements Directive 2006/126/EC and a long list of amending directives, named in its article 52. None of them was read.
- consolidatesUmferdarlog, 2019 nr. 77 25. juni
Lagasafn, Althingi · consolidated to 2026-10-01
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The consolidated collection of Icelandic Acts, published under section 9 of the Act on Stjornartidindi and the Legal Gazette 15/2005. The minister is responsible for publishing it and a three-member editorial board appointed for five years at a time oversees it, one member nominated by the Speaker of Althingi; it is hosted on the parliament's own site. Each edition carries a number and a date - the one read here is Utgafa 158a, Islensk log 1. oktober 2026 - and an Act is served at a pinned address of the form https://www.althingi.is/lagas/<edition>/<year><number>.html, with /lagas/nuna/ as an always-latest alias. Every Act's header prints the date it came into force and a Breytt med line naming every amending Act with its own commencement. Amending Acts are worked into the parent Act, new Acts are added and repealed Acts are removed at each update. Passages inserted or substituted by a later Act are printed inside square brackets with a numbered footnote naming the amending Act and section, and repealed provisions are printed as an ellipsis with the same kind of footnote, so the page shows what has gone as well as what is there. Treaties given the force of law are printed in full as schedules, which is how the EEA Agreement and the Nordic Convention on Social Security are readable in Icelandic inside the statute book. The parliament separately serves each Act as passed at https://www.althingi.is/altext/stjt/<year>.<number>.html.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The lagasafn is a statutory consolidation and it is still subordinate to the gazette: section 9(1) of Act 15/2005 says that where the lagasafn text and the text published in Division A of Stjornartidindi diverge, the Stjornartidindi text governs. It must not be cited as the authentic text. It is a snapshot and not a running text - the Um lagasafn page says it is updated as a rule three times a year, at the start of the year, in spring and in autumn, with the edition numbered by legislative session and lettered a, b or c - so an Act passed since the edition date is simply not in it, and the site keeps a separate Nylega samthykkt log page for those. The square-bracket convention means a figure substituted by a later Act is printed inside brackets with a footnote marker beside it, so the number is in the collection but is not quotable as a clean sentence; the amending Act's own text has to be used instead. The collection publishes Acts only: regulations are at island.is/reglugerdir and are a different publisher. It says nothing about how an agency applies an Act - no subsistence amount, no fee, no processing time and no country list is in it.
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- consolidatesReglugerd um okuskirteini nr. 830/2011
Reglugerdasafn, Domsmalaraduneytid · consolidated to 2026-06-22
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The Icelandic collection of regulations, served at island.is/reglugerdir/nr/<4-digit number>-<year>; the older address reglugerd.is/reglugerdir/allar/nr/<number>-<year> redirects to it and the two store identical text. Each record prints the regulation number, its title, the full consolidated text with later amendments worked in, and a header line giving either the date of last amendment - Reglugerd med breytingum sidast breytt 22. juni 2026 for the driving-licence regulation - or a Stofnreglugerd marker. A Syna breytingar link carries the date of the version being shown, and a Fyrri utgafa link the date of the one before it, so the version history is navigable by date.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: The collection is subordinate to the gazette by its own notice: regulations are published in Division B of Stjornartidindi under section 3 of Act 15/2005, and the footer on every page says that where the text in the collection and the text published in Division B diverge, the latter governs. The version date is not always stated in words. The driving-licence regulation 830/2011 prints Reglugerd med breytingum sidast breytt 22. juni 2026; Reglugerd um utlendinga 540/2017 prints Stofnreglugerd, Reglugerd an breytinga, which is wrong on its face - that regulation has been amended at least by 1048/2020 and 818/2022, both named in the lagasafn's footnotes - and the only version date on the page is inside the Syna breytingar link, 2025-06-19. A cut-off taken from that link is an inference from a URL rather than from a sentence, and should be treated as the weaker of the two forms. The collection also keeps regulations alive that the parent Act has overtaken: chapter II of 540/2017 still grants and conditions a long-term visa that Act 37/2026 repealed in May 2026, and article 22(2) of that Act is what keeps it operative.
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