Photo licences issued in '98 or '99 have to be renewed to avoid £1,000 fine

Originally Posted by Ch00

No Licence therefore no entitlement to drive a car/bike is the very short answer!

The slightly longer one is that you also invalidate your insurance as you are not a licence holder.

Ch00

Just because you haven't updated a photo?

Scam. Shameful.

[dizzyblonde]

I'd be inclined to think they are bloody rip off merchants. My dad just told me someone where he works, had recently moved in with his new burd, and his license was held at his mothers. He'd had a lot of mail at his mums but not been around to pick it up...god knows how long he'd forgotten to update his license to his new address, but he got a shock when he found himself in the cells for the night and then fined a grand, for failing to declare his new details

Its just a way of making more money out of people thats the only reason they do it !

like tax!

Thanks for the "Heads-up" on that one Cazza, I had NO IDEA!!!!!!!

To$$ers

Yes you will be sent a reminder.

I've just had my address changed. Great, 9 years 11 months of ownership.

So i get my nice new license, new address, no points, brilliant.

Then i have a letter the next day saying its due for renewal, so along with a new picture, and £17.50, i've just sent it off today.

Why couldn't they have sent me it earlier so I could do it all in one go.

I dislike the DVLA

[Nicky S]

Originally Posted by Ch00

Also for info.

If you fail to renew your photocard the DVLA will "cancel" your licence until it is done and should you get stopped by the Police they will take your car/bike away from you.

Ch00

they will have to get me first heheheh mine dont run out till 2017 but i will prob forget about it then

[Bibio]

this is also why they want to introduce national ID cards ... so they can rip us off even more... its not about security its about getting more money out of the public ..

[Nicky S]

Originally Posted by Bibio

this is also why they want to introduce national ID cards ... so they can rip us off even more... its not about security its about getting more money out of the public ..

+1

Ill check on this at work as we've just had some info on the driving licence renewals. Mines due next year.

Hmm...I got my original photo licence in 2000 when I passed my car test...then kind of "renewed" it this year when I did the bike test, but didn't send a new photo or anything like that. Does that mean I still have to renew in 2010???

Laura