Driving licence woes

Fluentcode

Rover_Driver wrote: »

It only has to be an address where you can be contacted, not necessarily where you live. If you can be contacted through the address on the licence, there is no requirement to change it.

That's simply not the case. It is an offence to fail to notify the DVLA of a change of address. In the same way it is an offence not to update your photocard driving licence every ten years. Few people do it and even fewer get in trouble for it.

Getting away with it does not mean there is no requirement to change it.

You can be charged with failing to notify the DVLA regardless of if you can be contacted at the address they hold for you. The issue of whether or not you can be contacted at the address the DVLA holds, only comes up in the case of a motoring offence.

Any NIP (Notice of Intended Prosecution) will be sent to the last address the DVLA has for you. If you fail to respond with driver details within 28 days you stand liable for 6 points and a £1000 fine. In the case above, where someones loveable postie is all that is standing between them and this penalty, would you prefer the peace of mind of knowing that even if Joe the postman has a sick day, important notifications such as this should still get through to the right address?

Hintza

Fluentcode wrote: »

In the same way it is an offence not to update your photocard driving licence every ten years.

That's two years out of date now too.............:rotfl:

Rover_Driver

Fluentcode wrote: »

That's simply not the case. It is an offence to fail to notify the DVLA of a change of address. In the same way it is an offence not to update your photocard driving licence every ten years. Few people do it and even fewer get in trouble for it.

Getting away with it does not mean there is no requirement to change it.

You can be charged with failing to notify the DVLA regardless of if you can be contacted at the address they hold for you. The issue of whether or not you can be contacted at the address the DVLA holds, only comes up in the case of a motoring offence.

Any NIP (Notice of Intended Prosecution) will be sent to the last address the DVLA has for you. If you fail to respond with driver details within 28 days you stand liable for 6 points and a £1000 fine. In the case above, where someones loveable postie is all that is standing between them and this penalty, would you prefer the peace of mind of knowing that even if Joe the postman has a sick day, important notifications such as this should still get through to the right address?

From DVLA's leaflet 'Inf1D' - How to fill in your application for a Driving Licence:

"The address on the licence must be a GB home address at which you can be contacted."

It only has to be a home address, not necessarily the holders home address.

A NIP would be sent to the registered keeper of a motor vehicle from the motor vehicle records, not driving licence records.
And the address requirement on the V5C for the registered keeper is similar to that for a driving licence.

Mr_Toad

Fluentcode wrote: »

That's simply not the case. It is an offence to fail to notify the DVLA of a change of address.
Getting away with it does not mean there is no requirement to change it.

You can be charged with failing to notify the DVLA regardless of if you can be contacted at the address they hold for you. The issue of whether or not you can be contacted at the address the DVLA holds, only comes up in the case of a motoring offence.

Rubbish.

I have friends who live on narrowboats and they have no permanent mooring or address at all. They are known as continuous cruisers and their driving licenses, bank accounts and other things that show an address show a brothers, a friends and a parents address respectively.

Any mail that turns up that looks important is notified by email or txt and either opened and dealt with remotely by said brother, friend or parent. Or it can be collected if they are close enough or sent on somewhere closer like a marina for collection.

All legal and above board. Some live aboard boaters rent a PO box or accommodation address, again perfectly legal.