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  • Rover_Driver
    Rover_Driver Posts: 1,520 Forumite
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    m_raz1 wrote: »
    Hi i dont drive, do i still need to renew the photo???


    If you still hold a licence - yes, s.99 (2A) & (3A)(5), Road Traffic Act 1998.


    But the offence would normally only come to light if you were required to produce your licence.
  • I 'lost' my licence some time in the early 00's. I requested a replacement which was a photocard licence. It has now apparently expired.
    However- I have since found my original [and best] paper licence. This states uneqivocally that I am fully licenced until 2042. If I carry that I consider myself fully licenced. [I have already successfully used it to obtain an international permit] I would like to hear or see any actual law which says that this is not the case- instead of wishy washy drivel and maybe sos....
  • Rover_Driver
    Rover_Driver Posts: 1,520 Forumite
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    edited 1 October 2014 at 8:49PM
    Forestman wrote: »
    I 'lost' my licence some time in the early 00's. I requested a replacement which was a photocard licence. It has now apparently expired.
    However- I have since found my original [and best] paper licence. This states uneqivocally that I am fully licenced until 2042. If I carry that I consider myself fully licenced. [I have already successfully used it to obtain an international permit] I would like to hear or see any actual law which says that this is not the case- instead of wishy washy drivel and maybe sos....


    Your licence is valid, but you commit the offence of failing to update it if the photo is out of date. (s.99(5), Road Traffic Act 1998).
    As far as the DVLA are concerned, as you have a the photo licence, that has replaced your paper licence.
  • I have been sent a form to renew my licence which expires on 31st October. It requests a payment of £20.

    I now learn that the Govt is reducing the fee to £14 as from 31st October.

    Should I send in the current form I've been sent with the smaller amount? Or wait until 1st November and send in a completely new form (which I assume I can pick up from my Post Office)...?
  • As a good citizen I had lost my paper counterpart only this month and told the DVLA.

    I still had my plastic part.

    I was told to apply for the paper part and I was charged £20.

    Beggars belief that they also informed me today on receipt of such item that it was no longer going to issue the paper part after June 2015.

    I need not have been the honest citizen and just toughed it out until then if I knew and saved myself £20

    Cheated !!

    :mad:
  • I got a letter this morning from DVLA explaining to me that my licence is due to expire in April and if I don't renew they could fine me £1,000, otherwise I could send them a new photo and £14 to renew it.

    Don't quite get thought why it's expired already when it's supposed to last 10 years and my current licence is only 2.5 years old as I upgraded from automatic to manual.

    Plus I think this seems to be really bad and consider it absolute daylight robbery to demand £14 to update their system every ten years. If they want it to be up to date then surely they should fork out for the admin work to do so (they rob drivers of enough money anyway to cover this). I have a HND in Software Engineering that I gained in 1999, I don't see UCLAN keep sending me letters every 10 years asking for £14 so I can keep using my HND on my CV as this is a qualification I passed and so I am quite entitled to keep using it with no charge at all, so why should the DVLA think they can demand £14 off me every 10 years so I can carry on using a qualification I have gained or threaten me with a £1,000 fine if I don't renew or lose of my entitlement to drive. I already paid to take the test so why do I need to keep paying to keep my qualification valid - are the DVLA worried that if I don't fork out £14 to them every 10 years I might not be able to remember how to drive a car or something?
  • Rover_Driver
    Rover_Driver Posts: 1,520 Forumite
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    I got a letter this morning from DVLA explaining to me that my licence is due to expire in April and if I don't renew they could fine me £1,000, otherwise I could send them a new photo and £14 to renew it.

    Don't quite get thought why it's expired already when it's supposed to last 10 years and my current licence is only 2.5 years old as I upgraded from automatic to manual.


    Your licence does not expire every ten years, only the photograph.
    Unless you have a short term licence - medical etc. your licence does not expire until you are 70.


    Although you upgraded from automatic to manual 2.5 years ago, how old is the photograph?
  • I never got round to applying for a photo licence and the paper one seems to be accepted everywhere, doesn't expire until I am 70 so have not had to pay the renewal fee. The plastic card states on one side that it is valid until the age of 70 is reached but on the other states that it needs renewing after 10 years. Seems to be an anomaly and just another way of extracting more tax out of us.
  • Norman_Castle
    Norman_Castle Posts: 11,871 Forumite
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    The licence is valid until 70. The photo expires after 10 years. Extracting more tax?. After costs, how much do you think is left out of the £14?
  • My OH renewed his as soon as the reminder arrived even though it didn't expire until the end of July. He's just received the new photocard, but by being efficient and applying for the renewal straight away he's effectively lost two months that he'd already paid for, because it now runs May 2015 - May 2025 rather than until July 2025, which it would have been if he'd just allowed it to expire and then renewed in August.

    I realise it's a small cost in the scheme of things as it lasts 10 years anyway and only cost £14 to renew, but I thought it would be the same as passport renewals, where they add the time to the expiry date and make it valid from May 2015 - July 2025.
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