Removing points from a license?
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Worth checking with the DVLA mate, just ring them up and ask.
Having said that doing some reading from the thread that I started and it seems that it could be 4 years now!!!
I could have sworn it was 3 years for DVLA and 4/5 years for the vultures we call insurance companies.
Having said that doing some reading from the thread that I started and it seems that it could be 4 years now!!!
I could have sworn it was 3 years for DVLA and 4/5 years for the vultures we call insurance companies.
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They last for 4 years on your licence.
But only count towards your total amount of points for 3 years iirc
I'm gonna hijack this thread a bit.
I upgraded my old pink/green piece of tatty paper to a shiney new plastic card and a bit of paper counterpart.
I had 6 points scribbled on the old one. One set from July/05 and another from Feb/06.
On the new paper counterpart there's only the July/05 points, which have no expired.
The Feb/06 ones aren't mentioned, but I wonder if they were cancelled and I wasn't notified. They were from the same place as this bloke's:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/5148224.stm
So maybe they got cancelled? Or did some goon at the DVLA screw up?
Anyone have any ideas why my most recent and still valid points wouldn't appear on the licence now?
I upgraded my old pink/green piece of tatty paper to a shiney new plastic card and a bit of paper counterpart.
I had 6 points scribbled on the old one. One set from July/05 and another from Feb/06.
On the new paper counterpart there's only the July/05 points, which have no expired.
The Feb/06 ones aren't mentioned, but I wonder if they were cancelled and I wasn't notified. They were from the same place as this bloke's:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/5148224.stm
So maybe they got cancelled? Or did some goon at the DVLA screw up?
Anyone have any ideas why my most recent and still valid points wouldn't appear on the licence now?
I've been thinking about posting a thread like this for a while, as your story is quite like mine i'll jump in now.
I still have the tatty pink/green bit of paper as opposed to the shiny card. On my tatty bit of paper I have 3 points for doing 35 in a 30 (yeah I know, think of the children)
Next year, they 'come off' (as in expire). As Skiddley points out, it's 5 years as for insurance purposes. So that's the year after.
So I tell my insurance company, 'they've come off' the year after that.
But as my tatty bit of paper is still a legal licence, do I *have* to get a shiny card to have them removed as far as insurance is concerned?
Or can I just say to my insurance company (and for the purposes of everything else a clean licence is prefered/required) here is my tatty pink and green bit of paper, the points you see written on it have now expired so this is a clean licence?
I'm just trying to be tight and not fork out the £30 or whatever it is to get a shiny licence and have to have my picture taken etc.
I think what i'm trying to say is - Do I need a visually clean licence to be seen to have a 'clean' licence? Or can I have a licence with the points still visible, even though they have long since expired?
This might sound like a stupid question but what exactly is the point in them staying on your licence for 4 years if they only count towards totting up for 3?
I'm assuming there is some specific reason for it?
I believe its so they can be taken into account if you do something mental like kill someone.
