Paper driving licence .... still valid ?

[Nigel Worc's]

Hello chaps.

My wife still has her original non photo id, paper driving licence.

She was asked for her driving licence as id recently, and was told her licence is no longer valid, and she must apply for a photcard one asap.

I can find no mention of this on the DVLA website, they can you can change, but it doesn't say you must.

Anyone know for sure ?

(I think she was told this by her bank, before anyone asks lol)

[Nigel Worc's]

Thanks everyone.

I'm sure the bank employee didn't mean to misslead my wife, it'll have been a genuine mistake.

Wifey is now aware, and will pass this info onto the lady next time she sees her.

[Nigel Worc's]

Prof Beard said:

I have a paper licence. I gave up using it for ID years ago - if I know I'm going to need ID I take my passport...

LOL, strangely enough, banks don't accept passports (or that's my experience), because, it doesn't have your address on it !

[Nigel Worc's]

And when it comes to photo id now, the picture doesn't actually look like "you" anymore, if you wear spectacles, because you have to remove them.

My passport still has a picture of me in glasses, my driving licence doesn't.

To a point earlier, about the date paper licences were issued until, it was before 2000, as my licence had to be renewed on it's three yearly basis in Febuary 2000, and that was the time DVLA forced me to have a photocard licence, or no licence, it was also the time that they removed my minibus and 7.5 ton entitlements (I now know that came into force in Oct 97, but I'd had a new licence in Feb 97).