UK_DRV_LIC (UK - Drv lic number)

Property	Value
A technical identifier, unique in a certain context. Technical key	UK_DRV_LIC
The country a linked concept is active or generally relevant for. Country scope	GB (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Language-specific name. Monolingual name	Driver's Licence Number (en)
Language-specific short name. Monolingual short name	UK - Drv lic number (en)
Informal and comprehensive human-readable definition of a concept. Description	The Driver's Licence Number is the identifier that the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency assigns to each holder of a British driving licence. Its characters are built from the surname, the date of birth and initials plus issue and check characters, and it is used to verify entitlement to drive, for example in fleet and logistics business.
Category of business identifiers. Identifier category	Identification Number

Formal definition

Details	Informal and comprehensive human-readable definition of a concept. Description	The type in terms of a categorization of regular expressions. Regular expression type	TThe formal expression of a regular expression. Regular expression
Regular expression/UK DRV LIC/format	Validates the format of the British driving licence number, the eighteen-character identifier that the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency assigns to each driver. The pattern accepts five characters from the surname, six digits encoding the date of birth, two initials and a five-character check and issue group.	IDENTIFIER_FORMAT	^[A-Z9]{5}[0-9]{1}[0-5][0-9][0-3][0-9][0-9][A-Z9]{2}[0-9]{5}$

Data quality rules

Data quality rule	The country a linked concept is active or generally relevant for. Country scope	Informal and comprehensive human-readable definition of a concept. Description	Criticality<br/>Specifies how critical of the violation of a data quality rule.<br/>ERROR: Indicates a critical data quality rule violation that requires correction.<br/>WARNING: Indicates a potential data quality issue that should be reviewed.<br/>INFO: Indicates an informational finding with no immediate impact on data quality. Criticality	Rule release status<br/>The release status in terms of development progress or maturity of a data quality rule.<br/>IDEA: Initial rule definition that documents a business requirement but is not yet active in services.<br/>PLANNED: Rule is specified and scheduled for implementation, but not yet active in services.<br/>DRAFT: Rule concept is being prepared or refined but is not yet finalized for implementation or execution.<br/>HYPERCARE: Rule is newly released and under increased observation to ensure stable behaviour and correct results.<br/>RELEASED: Rule has passed verification and is actively executed in productive CDQ services.<br/>DEACTIVATED: Rule is temporarily removed from the active rule set because it needs correction or clarification before re release.<br/>BLOCKED: Rule cannot be released because something it depends on is missing, for example a data source or a clarification.<br/>ARCHIVED: Rule is permanently retired and no longer maintained or intended for future activation. Rule release status
Identifier format invalid (Driver license number (United Kingdom)) REPRESENTATIONAL_CONSISTENCY	GB (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)	This rule checks the structure of the British driver's licence number, which follows an eighteen-character pattern. The first five characters are the first five letters of the surname, padded with the number 9 where the surname is shorter than five characters. The sixth character represents the decade of birth, for example 8 for the 1980s. The characters seven to eleven encode the date of birth in the form MMDDY, where MM is the month of birth, with female drivers adding 5 to the first digit so that January ranges from 51 to 62, DD is the day of birth and Y is the last digit of the year of birth. Characters twelve and thirteen are two additional letters or digits, often an issue number or another identifier. The last five characters, positions fourteen to eighteen, are a numeric sequence containing a check digit that confirms validity.	ERROR	RELEASED(2025-01-16)