DVLA - keeping revoked license as ID?

varghesejim

Calfuray wrote: »

Hello,

Apologies if this is in the wrong place or if this seems like a silly question.

We recently wrote to the DVLA to report various medical conditions for my husband. His driving license has been revoked, which is exactly what we were expecting. We have no intentions of appealing, but were wondering, can he keep the old license just for ID or does it have to be returned?

Thanks in advance,
Cal

If you write your name and address in a white sheet of paper and stick a photo on it, no one will accept it as an id. People accept ids authorised by a relevant authority.

In this case, revoking the licence means DVLA cancelling the entire document. You cannot re-enable it. You need to reapply for a new licence later if you are eligible.

Revoked licence has no more value than your details in a white paper. Using this as an id is as good as using a fake document and is an offence.

AndyMc.....

usefulmale wrote: »

You would only be in trouble if you were caught driving.

It's no different to me keeping my old 'expired' passport.

It is because it hasn’t expired it’s been revoked.

castle96

Have heard that an expired passport IS valid ID for 2 years .....?

Johno100

Very strange, there are posters on here objecting to a potential little white lie so the OP gets to keep a useful form of photo ID who are advocating and/or encouraging potential criminal activity when it comes to an inconveniently parked vehicle in another current thread.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5841315/a-car-keeps-blocking-our-access-to-the-road

Seems to me some people have rather dodgy moral compasses.

[Deleted User]

Johno100 wrote: »

Very strange, there are posters on here objecting to a potential little white lie so the OP gets to keep a useful form of photo ID who are advocating and/or encouraging potential criminal activity when it comes to an inconveniently parked vehicle in another current thread.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5841315/a-car-keeps-blocking-our-access-to-the-road

Seems to me some people have rather dodgy moral compasses.

Always been the case on here.

I'm sure using a revoked licence to prove age to buy alcohol in a supermarket will make a blind bit of difference. They check the photo and D.O.B they don't ring up DVLA. :rotfl:

Car_54

varghesejim wrote: »

If you write your name and address in a white sheet of paper and stick a photo on it, no one will accept it as an id. People accept ids authorised by a relevant authority.

In this case, revoking the licence means DVLA cancelling the entire document. You cannot re-enable it. You need to reapply for a new licence later if you are eligible.

Revoked licence has no more value than your details in a white paper. Using this as an id is as good as using a fake document and is an offence.

So, what offence would you commit if you used it, say to enter a club?

unholyangel

If its been revoked because of disability (or prospective disability) then yes you need to return it.

(3)A person whose licence is revoked under subsection (1) or (2) above must deliver up the licence F2... to the Secretary of State forthwith after the revocation [F5and a person who, without reasonable excuse, fails to do so is guilty of an offence

And disability is defined as:

In this Part of this Act—
“disability” includes disease [F1and the persistent misuse of drugs or alcohol, whether or not such misuse amounts to dependency],
“relevant disability” in relation to any person means—
(a)any prescribed disability, and
(b)any other disability likely to cause the driving of a vehicle by him in pursuance of a licence to be a source of danger to the public, and

“prospective disability” in relation to any person means any other disability which—
(a)at the time of the application for the grant of a licence or, as the case may be, the material time for the purposes of the provision in which the expression is used, is not of such a kind that it is a relevant disability, but
(b)by virtue of the intermittent or progressive nature of the disability or otherwise, may become a relevant disability in course of time.

Andy_L

varghesejim wrote: »

Using this as an id is as good as using a fake document and is an offence.

Under what law?

Andy_L

castle96 wrote: »

Have heard that an expired passport IS valid ID for 2 years .....?

I think the utility of an expired passport as a proof of ID is down to the discretion of the person accepting it or what its being used for

Easyjet, eg, will accept it for 5 years after (Although obviously only for domestic flights) whilst the Government, for money laundering purposes, only allows a current one

Robisere

A revoked document, especially revoked as a government-issued document, cannot be legally used for any purpose. An expired document is different: it will carry proof of expiry, in the form of an expired date. What happens if a police officer has sight of the revoked licence, do you think?