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Non EEC license holders may drive as a visitor in the UK provided you permit or license is valid for 12 months.
As a resident you may drive for 12 months from date of entry into the UK, after 12 months you loose full license status and revert to provisional status.
They must have a full valid license issued in their country. They cant just come here with no license and drive!
Inside the EEC / EU there is no time limit.
HTH
As a resident you may drive for 12 months from date of entry into the UK, after 12 months you loose full license status and revert to provisional status.
They must have a full valid license issued in their country. They cant just come here with no license and drive!
Inside the EEC / EU there is no time limit.
HTH
Salamat Hari Tuan...
Is he a visitor or resident?
DVLA Rules herewith:
Visitors
You may drive vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes and with up to eight passenger seats, provided your full licence or driving permit remains valid for up to 12 months from the date of coming to GB. However, you may only drive large vehicles which have been registered outside GB and which you have driven into the country.
Residents
If you are the holder of an ordinary driving licence (car, moped, motorcycle entitlement) and provided your licence remains valid, you can drive any category of small vehicle shown on your licence for up to 12 months from the time you became resident. To ensure continuous driving entitlement a provisional GB licence must have been obtained and a driving test(s) passed before the 12-month period elapses. If you obtain a provisional licence during this period, you are not subject to provisional licence conditions eg displaying 'L' plates or being supervised by a qualified driver or being precluded from motorways.
However, if you do not pass a test within the 12-month concessionary period you will not be allowed to drive as a full licence holder and provisional licence conditions will apply. If you do not apply for a provisional licence within the first 12 months you must stop driving and obtain a British provisional licence with a view to passing a driving test. Provisional licence conditions will then apply.
If you are the holder of a vocational licence (minibus, bus, lorry entitlement) and a new resident, you must not drive large vehicles until you have passed the relevant GB driving test. Driving test candidates are required to pass a motor car (category B) test first before applying for provisional entitlement for larger vehicles.
If he had gone across the causeway at Johore Baru into Singers and exchanged his Malaysian Licence for one of theirs then on becoming a resident in UK he could exchange his Singers Licence for a GB Licence - no test.
Bagoose lah
dvd
Is he a visitor or resident?
DVLA Rules herewith:
Visitors
You may drive vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes and with up to eight passenger seats, provided your full licence or driving permit remains valid for up to 12 months from the date of coming to GB. However, you may only drive large vehicles which have been registered outside GB and which you have driven into the country.
Residents
If you are the holder of an ordinary driving licence (car, moped, motorcycle entitlement) and provided your licence remains valid, you can drive any category of small vehicle shown on your licence for up to 12 months from the time you became resident. To ensure continuous driving entitlement a provisional GB licence must have been obtained and a driving test(s) passed before the 12-month period elapses. If you obtain a provisional licence during this period, you are not subject to provisional licence conditions eg displaying 'L' plates or being supervised by a qualified driver or being precluded from motorways.
However, if you do not pass a test within the 12-month concessionary period you will not be allowed to drive as a full licence holder and provisional licence conditions will apply. If you do not apply for a provisional licence within the first 12 months you must stop driving and obtain a British provisional licence with a view to passing a driving test. Provisional licence conditions will then apply.
If you are the holder of a vocational licence (minibus, bus, lorry entitlement) and a new resident, you must not drive large vehicles until you have passed the relevant GB driving test. Driving test candidates are required to pass a motor car (category B) test first before applying for provisional entitlement for larger vehicles.
If he had gone across the causeway at Johore Baru into Singers and exchanged his Malaysian Licence for one of theirs then on becoming a resident in UK he could exchange his Singers Licence for a GB Licence - no test.
Bagoose lah
dvd
Edited by Dwight VanDriver on Monday 10th September 14:43
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