driving licence

[bartholomew]

Hi
I was wondering if you could help me. I do not understand the following sentence:
If you are resident in Britain and have an EC licence, your licence can be endorsed by the courts and a counterpart will be issued.

What does the word endorse mean in thsi context?

1000 Thanks

[dasherman]

It means if you get done for speeding,drink driving or any other driving related offence it will be recorded on your licence.

[Jugglering]

It is an odd statement !

An endorsement on a driving licence usually means that penalty points incurred by the driver for a driving offence are recorded on that licence.

However, if you have no penalty points on your licence, I would assume that *endorse* in this instance means a confirmation that your EC licence is valid in the UK.

I always understood "endorsement" to mean "approval of" or was some way of adding comments.

You've got me scratching my head now too - no wonder you are baffled !

[kempie]

An endorsement is an attachment to a document that amends or adds to it.

In the case of a driving licence this is to add information such as penalty points in relation to traffic offences. Since EC licences are not able to have this information printed upon them directly a paper counterpart is issued.