Disqualified Internationally???
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Are you sure you have to drive? I'm in India at the moment and almost everyone with a car has a driver too ('cos having your own driver here is so cheap). Younger people get around on motor cycles.
If you haven't driven in India before then I'd really recommend you don't attempt it - both for safety and sanity.
However, in response to your question - I'm fairly sure the answer is you can drive in India even if you have been disqualified in the UK. Check with someone more knowledgable as I'm not absolutely certain.
If you haven't driven in India before then I'd really recommend you don't attempt it - both for safety and sanity.
However, in response to your question - I'm fairly sure the answer is you can drive in India even if you have been disqualified in the UK. Check with someone more knowledgable as I'm not absolutely certain.
As far as I am aware your disqualification in UK has no effect in India (unless there is some local ordinance that prohibits -doubtful).
Problem is what Licence can you produce to them?
Few rupees in brown envelope may secure you an Indian Licence?
If you EMail your enquiry to:
cgi@congend.fsnet.co.uk
you should get it from the horses mouth. (Indian Embassy, Birmingham)
dvd
Problem is what Licence can you produce to them?
Few rupees in brown envelope may secure you an Indian Licence?
If you EMail your enquiry to:
cgi@congend.fsnet.co.uk
you should get it from the horses mouth. (Indian Embassy, Birmingham)
dvd
Thank you for all you advice. After speaking to the AA, RAC, DVLA. It would appear i am able to use my UK driving licence in India provided i obtain a International driving permit (£5) also i can pass my motorcycle test over there. Great stuff!!
If anyone has heard to the contary please post as im still a little unsure.
If anyone has heard to the contary please post as im still a little unsure.
clack said:
Thank you for all you advice. After speaking to the AA, RAC, DVLA. It would appear i am able to use my UK driving licence in India provided i obtain a International driving permit (£5) also i can pass my motorcycle test over there. Great stuff!!
If anyone has heard to the contary please post as im still a little unsure.
Unsure, maybe. If anyone has heard to the contary please post as im still a little unsure.
Nuts, certainly!
Good luck
Parrot of Doom said:
I think an Indian driving test involves starting up, driving in a straight line, making 2 shallow turns, driving in another straight line, and stopping.
So you could possibly pass their test
So you could possibly pass their test
From a ex-colleague who went to live and work over there and took the test.
Several of you pile into a car with the examiner.
Candidate A starts up drives a bit stops, gets out
Candidate B gets behind wheel, does the reversing bit, gets out.
Candidate C gets behind wheel, does a few junctions.
And so on.
Everyone gets a licence even if they've only done part of the test. You get the picture.
Colleague took the test, got a licence, observed the standards of driving etc, and got himself a driver.
Banned in the UK by a UK court does not mean that one is banned anywhere else in the
world. To suggest that it does is to imply that a UK court has control over the laws of other countries, or that they have control over our laws. Of course, EU wide laws will become the norm eventually, but whether, say, a Polish police officer will be able to directly access the DVLA from his patrol car to confirm that the licene you just showed him is valid is another matter entirely. Then there is the matter of the accuracy of the DVLA database!
Most of us who travel internationally on business have at least 2 UK licences already, as to send one away to have points added would mean no foreign business travel whilst without it (several weeks) due to the inability to hire a car. The practicalities may well be different from the theory in all this and that will continue. Anyway, the UK seems to be the only country with this obsession with banning for a few minor offences. The real answer is an address abroad and a foreign licence at that address. Not difficult to achieve, I assure you all.
world. To suggest that it does is to imply that a UK court has control over the laws of other countries, or that they have control over our laws. Of course, EU wide laws will become the norm eventually, but whether, say, a Polish police officer will be able to directly access the DVLA from his patrol car to confirm that the licene you just showed him is valid is another matter entirely. Then there is the matter of the accuracy of the DVLA database!
Most of us who travel internationally on business have at least 2 UK licences already, as to send one away to have points added would mean no foreign business travel whilst without it (several weeks) due to the inability to hire a car. The practicalities may well be different from the theory in all this and that will continue. Anyway, the UK seems to be the only country with this obsession with banning for a few minor offences. The real answer is an address abroad and a foreign licence at that address. Not difficult to achieve, I assure you all.
Parrot of Doom said:
I think an Indian driving test involves starting up, driving in a straight line, making 2 shallow turns, driving in another straight line, and stopping.
So you could possibly pass their test
So you could possibly pass their test
Und I seem to recall some story about a speeding driver being made to do press-ups by police who stopped him or something. I think this was around last fall
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