V5/license at different address from insurance?

vaio

Ahh, so if i contact them now not only to I have to pay for a photo licence & updating but I also get to pay up to £1000 for not contacting them sometime over the last 30 ish years?

If I'm really lucky I might even get to pay a fine for each address I've had and not told them about.

I'll pass thanks

molerat

Two different scenarios here.

IMO Emphyrio is doing the correct thing, his licence and V5 are registered at a permanant contactable address. The uni address is somewhat transient and plod /dvla would no doubt accept this.

vaio could come a cropper if stopped by plod as he is obviously ignoring the law and not updating his permanant address but is probably an acceptable risk against having to buy (and rebuy) one of those new photo licence thingies.

vaio

Yep, although as sadly my parents won't live forever so I guess I'll have to change it when their address is no longer linked to me.

Can anyone think of any reason DVLC would want to contact me (before I get to 70) using my licence address?

Do they need a current address or is it just another part of the disturbing tendency for government to gather as much information as they can on the population? (which normally results in life being made harder and/or more expensive)

huckster

Yes you have got the one correct Vaio. It is a way the state can exercise control over you and charge you an amount for some updates that is more the reasonable admin cost.

I have always updated the address, as I would not want to be caught out by the Police. If you were randomly stopped at a check point, which occasionally happens, they ask to check your details. I don't know how they would know you had not updated your address, unless they picked up that the registered keepers address was different than that shown on your licence. In that instance they would probably give you a warning I would have thought ?

They could write to you, asking that you obtain a photo licence. It may become a requirement for everyone to have a photo licence.

Rover_Driver

huckster wrote: »

I presume this to be a joke ?

My understanding is that DVLA needs to have an address where you can be contacted directly. If the OP is 10 months at a university address and 2 months at parents, being that the car is mostly in use where they are at Uni, I think DVLA would want the Uni address. BUT perhaps the rules regarding this are not clear. Hence suggestion to contact DVLA.

The address on a driving licence only has to be a GB address at which you can be contacted, if the OP can be contacted via his parents address, there is no reason to change it.

thegirlintheattic

There is no need for the addresses to be the same, nor do you need to live at the address for a V5, just be contactable.

Up till this year my V5 and DL were at 1 address (a more permanent contact address) while insurance was at my residence.

huckster

Rover_Driver wrote: »

The address on a driving licence only has to be a GB address at which you can be contacted, if the OP can be contacted via his parents address, there is no reason to change it.

Source of this information ? From what I read on the DVLA bit of the Directgov site, it appears to say they want the address where you are resident. This is what it says.

You must tell the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) immediately of any changes to your name, address or both.

Rover_Driver

huckster wrote: »

Source of this information ? From what I read on the DVLA bit of the Directgov site, it appears to say they want the address where you are resident. This is what it says.

You must tell the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) immediately of any changes to your name, address or both.

DVLA's leaflet INF1D - How to fill in your application for a driving licence, Section 2, page 7.

Their website is more accurate than the Directgov one.

olly300

huckster wrote: »

Source of this information ? From what I read on the DVLA bit of the Directgov site, it appears to say they want the address where you are resident. This is what it says.

You must tell the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) immediately of any changes to your name, address or both.

It's open to interpretation and the best thing is to ring the DVLA for clarification as the directgov site is not always accurate in their interpretation.

The reason being is that banks, universities themselves, council electoral roll departments and student contents insurers recognise that students will have two addresses. One a permanent (or non-term time) address, which is normally their parents. The other a temporary (or term time) address which is where they live at university.