Endorsement on my old green licence
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I still have one of those old-fashioned green paper licences and had to send it off a couple of weeks ago as a result of making too much progress in too short a time. When it came back, I expected to see the form on the back filled in by hand (the first endorsement on it is dated 1981 and typed, but the couple since then have been hand-written). But nothing has been added to record my misdemeanor. Is that as it should be ? How am I meant to know when the endorsement is expired - come to think of it, how do any of you with those new-fangled pastic jobbies know when offences were committed and endorsements expire ?
It should do. Your driving licence number doesn’t change when / if you get a photo card licence, nor does your National Insuramce number, or address. See below
https://insidedvla.blog.gov.uk/2015/03/24/advice-f...
https://insidedvla.blog.gov.uk/2015/03/24/advice-f...
jkh112 said:
When I had to send mine off recently there was a note in small print telling me not to send off the paper part. I sent off the photo card and had it returned which seems pointless.
The paper part is redundant now and may as well be thrown away. There is zero value in holding on to it. SantaBarbara said:
Hold on to the paper part as a back up to remember your Driver number.
Also useful to prove you have a license when they accidentally put you back to provisional status as they randomly do!and when they do screw up like that, the onus is on YOU to prove you passed the test despite test centres not keeping long term records. The DVLA have regular data archives of thier entire database so no information is lost, yet they refuse to look into an archive to see that you had a license.
gothatway said:
I still have one of those old-fashioned green paper licences and had to send it off a couple of weeks ago as a result of making too much progress in too short a time. When it came back, I expected to see the form on the back filled in by hand (the first endorsement on it is dated 1981 and typed, but the couple since then have been hand-written). But nothing has been added to record my misdemeanor. Is that as it should be ? How am I meant to know when the endorsement is expired - come to think of it, how do any of you with those new-fangled pastic jobbies know when offences were committed and endorsements expire ?
YOu got your old paper licence back with no issues?SantaBarbara said:
Hold on to the paper part as a back up to remember your Driver number.
Think some are getting wires crossed.The OP isnt talking about the now redundant paper part of the photo card licence but an original paper license so that really shouldnt be thrown away.
You must have lived at the same address for quite a few years OP.
Psycho Warren said:
SantaBarbara said:
Hold on to the paper part as a back up to remember your Driver number.
Also useful to prove you have a license when they accidentally put you back to provisional status as they randomly do!and when they do screw up like that, the onus is on YOU to prove you passed the test despite test centres not keeping long term records. The DVLA have regular data archives of thier entire database so no information is lost, yet they refuse to look into an archive to see that you had a license.
I have heard anecdotal evidence that people have been caught out driving 7.5ton vans as part of their job on the basis they always had it on their paper licence, but the DVLA removed it when they updated and they didn't tell the driver, and the driver had no way of proving it was on his paper licence so got done for the offence.
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