Insurance - NCD when cancelling a policy

[GreigM]

One for you insurance experts, what's the situation with NCD when you cancel a policy mid-year?

Basic situation is:
Took out a policy (with AXA), in mid-2012, provided them with evidence of 9-years NCD.
Cancelled that policy when I sold the car in march-2013,returned certificate as requested and got email confirmation of returned certificate/cancellation.

Now want to insure a new car and realise I never got a new confirmation of my NCD when I cancelled the policy, but I do still have the evidence from the prior policy (from Admiral,dated may 2012).

So questions are:
1. should I have received a confirmation of the 9-years from the cancelled policy from AXA?
2. alternatively can I/should I simply re-use the older confirmation from Admiral?

[cuprabob]

1. Normally, you have to request but as you cancelled mid term you revert back to your previous NCD
2. Yes.

After 5 years NCD it doesn't really matter as most companies max NCD at 5 years. Even if you have 20 years NCD and have an accident it will revert back to 3 years, as the deduction is made from the companies max and not the actual.

[CrowCrow00]

AXA were the best insurers I've been with. They gave me the last year when I cancelled the policy 3/4 of the way through due to being given free insurance on a new car.