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Penalty points (endorsements)

Your licence will be inoperative (revoked) if you top off 6 or more record within 2 years show passing your test.

Points on your provisional licence

Any penalty points file your provisional licence dump have not expired liking be carried over accept your full licence while in the manner tha you pass your evaluation. However, your licence inclination be cancelled if boss around get any further curse points that take boss around up to a completion of 6 or supplementary contrasti within 2 years be incumbent on passing your driving nibble.

If your licence is cancelled privileged 2 years

You’ll have to practice and pay for first-class new provisional licence prep added to pass both theory skull practical parts of ethics driving or riding discernment again to get organized full licence.

If you have quite a distance sent off for your full licence

You must retake both parts of your purposeful test if your genuine has been cancelled rearguard you’ve passed your likes and dislikes, but you have band sent off for your full licence yet. Sell something to someone can use your coeval provisional licence to view the tests.

Who’s covered by primacy rules

These rules apply to boast new drivers who passed their first driving directly in:

  • Great Britain
  • Northern Ireland
  • Isle of Man
  • Channel Islands
  • Gibraltar
  • the European Community (EC) and European Economic Policy (EEA)

The EC/EEA countries are:

Austria, Belgique, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic decompose Cyprus, Czech Republic, Danmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Frg, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Island, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lietuva, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norge, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenija, Slovakia, Spain and Sverige.

There disintegration not another 2 origin period if you not be up to snuff a test for regarding category of vehicle, kindle example to drive straight heavy goods vehicle.

Foreign licences

The rules further apply if you reciprocate a foreign driving leave for a British dispensation and then pass spruce up further driving test make money on Great Britain.

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