Points On Licence

[Islay]

I received 6 points on my licence for driving without insurance, it was a genuine error but my fault non the less.

This was 2 years ago, I gave my licence into the police station and received it back with the points written on it, I have declared them every year since to my insurance company.

Last week I had need to check something on my licence and went onto the website - out of interest I thought I would check how much longer I had on my points but there were not there!

I logged in and logged out nothing there - do you think I need to keep declaring that I have points if nothing is showing up on the dvla website?

[ToraToraTora]

rejoice, those points do not exist, this happenned to me once on one of my speeding tickets, they write them on then somehow fail to do the DVLA update. Result!

[Islay]

Excellent Thank you

[EDDIE51]

You should have sent your licence back to the DVLA to have the points added, never heard of the police just writing them on. Is this the old paper licence?

[Islay]

No I have a photo licence, I was advised to surrender my paper counterpart and photocard to the policestation, I then received both back in the post about 3 weeks later.

[Zacs-Master]

Eddie, You might want to read this:
https://www.gov.uk/penalty-points-endorsements/Handing-over-your-driving-licence-for-endorsement

[EDDIE51]

^^ how do the police write points onto a plastic encased photo card licence?

[Islay]

I handed over both parts of my licence Eddie as both were valid at the time.

[Baldric]

Eddie, what do you not understand about the post at 16:22?

[EDDIE51]

Paper counterparts are no longer needed now, official advice is that they can be thrown away.

[New Judge]

They don't Eddie

They are (or were - see below) recorded on the paper counterpart.

A few months back this system was changed. Drivers' records are now held only electronically. The paper counterpart is now redundant. Now if, say, you want to hire a car you have to get a temporary code from the DVLA to enable the hire company to view your driving record.

[Baldric]

Eddie,

from the OP

///This was 2 years ago///

[EDDIE51]

Yes NJ, this is the site to get your licence details
https://www.gov.uk/view-driving-licence
As we both say the paper counterpart has no validity now, you can throw it away. Got a new licence last week, it says that if you still have a paper counterpart you can throw it away as it is meaningless.

[EDDIE51]

Baldric. Islay got the points 2 years ago, they should still have another 2 years to run.

[Baldric]

Well done Eddie, you've noticed!

[Islay]

so do we think I have dodged a bullet?

[Maydup]

You most certainly have, well done you.

[Islay]

phew the points were for a stupid mistake too, so pleased.