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Islay | 10:57 Sat 24th Oct 2015 | Motoring
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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?
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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!
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Excellent Thank you
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?
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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.
^^ how do the police write points onto a plastic encased photo card licence?
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I handed over both parts of my licence Eddie as both were valid at the time.

Eddie, what do you not understand about the post at 16:22?
Paper counterparts are no longer needed now, official advice is that they can be thrown away.
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.

Eddie,

from the OP

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

Well done Eddie, you've noticed!
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so do we think I have dodged a bullet?
You most certainly have, well done you.
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phew the points were for a stupid mistake too, so pleased.

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