Forklift licence
A forklift licence is a high risk work licence, class LF, issued by your state regulator and recognised nationally. There are two costs: a training course, roughly $350 regional to $750 inner-city, and a separate regulator fee. The licence runs five years, and the assessment usually must be lodged within 60 days.
Each state runs its own scheme, with its own name, its own authority and its own fee. What you hold in one state is often no use in another.
Key facts
- How long it lasts: 5 years
- Do not sit on your assessment: Applications usually have to be lodged within 60 days of being assessed
- Searched about 14,800 times a month in Australia.
- Checked against the issuing authority on 2026-10-25.
True everywhere in Australia
- There are two costs, not one
- The training course, then a separate government licence fee You pay a registered training organisation to train and assess you, and then your state regulator to issue the licence. Course prices vary enormously by location, roughly $350 in regional areas to around $750 in inner Sydney or Melbourne. The regulator fee is separate and much smaller.
- How long it lasts
- 5 years
- Do not sit on your assessment
- Applications usually have to be lodged within 60 days of being assessed Miss the window and the assessment can lapse, which means paying for the course again. Confirm the deadline with your own regulator.
- What the regulator fee is
- Not published here Three separate sources quote the New South Wales fee as $83, $92 and $98, and disagree similarly on every other state. Rather than pick one, we have left it out until a regulator schedule can be read directly. Your regulator publishes the current figure.
Not yet checked
We know which body issues it in these states and what it is called there, but we have not yet read the fee and the rules at the source. Rather than copy a number from another website, these pages say what we know and link you to the authority.
- Forklift licence in New South Wales not checked
- Forklift licence in Victoria not checked
- Forklift licence in Queensland not checked
- Forklift licence in Western Australia not checked
Keeping track of it
This is one card. Most people carry four or five, each renewing on a different clock, and lose a shift when one quietly lapses. Work out which of yours runs out first, or register and we track every date and chase you before any of them turn red.