Licence photo and glasses

Jagtar

Hi I normally wear glasses and was wondering do I have to be wearing glasses on the licence photo or will a photo without my glasses do.

The reason I'm asking is because I have had a change of appearence recently and need to change my licence photo. I lost my licence a while back so can't check in the old picture whether I was wearing glasses or not.

Thanks for your replies.

vax2002

I have a pair of big round john lennon glasses on on mine, it was a bet, I picked the glasses, someone else got the beard and the other got the lepricorns hat and pipe.
They all came back.

NBLondon

Erm... I suspect it would be more important that the photo looks like you do now???

Do you need to wear your glasses to meet the eyesight requirements of the driving test? Since if you were stopped by the boys in blue, the photo had glasses and you didn't then they might ask that.

A bit off-topic: It's a pretty crap test. I can read the number plate perfectly well without my glasses on but I'd be an idiot to drive without them - 'cause I have one eye with normal vision and one astigmatic.

bluenoseam

When i recently had to renew my provisional (yep, 10 years 0 lessons = money well spent ) the form specified that no glasses were to be worn for the photo.

kingstreet

If you have to wear glasses to drive, it doesn't matter if you're wearing them in the photo as there's a code on the back of your photocard to tell the Police if you should be wearing them for driving.

kingstreet

It's a "01" code against category 12, by the way.

DVLA Driving Licence Restriction Codes

These are the descriptions of information codes which appear on your driving licences.

Code
1 Eyesight correction
2 Hearing / communication aid
10 Modified transmission
15 Modified clutch
20 Modified braking systems
25 Modified accelerator systems
30 Combined braking and accelerator systems
35 Modified control layouts
40 Modified steering
42 Modified rear - view mirror(s)
43 Modified driving seats
44 Modifications to motorcycles. (1) single opertaed brake. (2) (adjusted) hand operated brake (front wheel). (3) (adjusted) foot operated brake (back wheel). (4) (adjusted) accelerator handle. (5) (adjusted) manual transmission and manual clutch. (6) (adjusted) rear-view mirror(s). (7) (adjusted) commands (direction indicators, brake light, etc.). (8) seat height allowing the driver, in sitting position to have two feet on the road at the same time.
45 Motorcycle only with sidecar
70 Exchange of licence
71 Duplicate of licence
78 Restricted to vehicles with automatic transmission
79 Restricted to vehicles in conformity with the specifications stated in brackets
101 Not for hire or reward
102 Drawbar trailers only
103 Subject to certificate of competence
105 Not more than 5.5m long
106 Restricted to vehicles with automatic transmission
107 Not more than 8250kg
108 Subject to minimum age requirements
110 Limited to invalid carriages
111 Limited to 16 passenger seats
113 Limited to 16 passenger seats except for automatics
114 With any special controls required for safe driving
115 Organ donor
118 Start date is for earliest entitlement
119 Weight limit does not apply
120 Complies with health standard for category D1
121 Restricted to conditions specified in the Secretary of State's notice.
122 Valid on successful completion: Basic Moped Training Course

split_second

when i renewed mine they said glasses were not to be worn on the picture, i wear them permanantly, no resemblence is their issue now i did what dvla said

photome

split_second wrote: »

when i renewed mine they said glasses were not to be worn on the picture, i wear them permanantly, no resemblence is their issue now i did what dvla said

How can there possibly be no resemblance just because your photo doesnt have glasses on, unless it isnt you in the pic.

I am failry confident thatif I saw your pic without glases I would still know it was you and of course you could always take them off

In answer to the OP glasses off is best, then there is no chance of any glare on your glases

And of course any left over pics would be good for a passport, again no glasses to be worn

Norman_Castle

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/DriverLicensing/NeedANewOrUpdatedLicence/DG_078281

http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/groups/dg_digitalassets/@dg/@en/@motor/documents/digitalasset/dg_078279.pdf

I used this site recently http://www.idphoto4you.com/ . Really easy.
4x6 print size gives 8 pictures from tesco instore photo lab for 30p.

Fishingtime

kingstreet wrote: »

It's a "01" code against category 12, by the way.

Hands up everyone that checked there licence?

I did

Rolandtheroadie

Knew I had it on mine, it was me that told them.