Driving in Canada
Mar 19th 2014, 6:09 pm
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Re: Driving in Canada
a) Think twice before relying on free legal advice from anonymous posters on the internet.
b) I hope that IRL your name is not Karen Turner.
b) I hope that IRL your name is not Karen Turner.
Mar 19th 2014, 6:10 pm
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Re: Driving in Canada
So you will have to apply for a new license once your disqualification is over right? Which means that your current license is invalid.
Mar 19th 2014, 6:10 pm
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Re: Driving in Canada
How did you lose your licence and for how long? Why is your paper licence unmarked?
One of the requirements to exchange an overseas (reciprocal) licence to a Provincial Licence is that your original must still be valid. By signing that it is, you will be lying and if it is discovered (whether through insurance or otherwise) you run a lot of risks.
Mar 19th 2014, 6:13 pm
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I came very close to losing my work permit with a deportation order for a little bit of accidental cod poaching - wouldn't like to see what they would do for trying to fraudulently swap a disqualified license for a good one 
Mar 19th 2014, 6:46 pm
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Re: Driving in Canada
I have been banned from driving. What happens next?
As soon as the Court imposes a ban, you are disqualified with immediate effect. The Court will retain your driving licence and send it to the DVLA with confirmation of the period of disqualification. From a practical point of view, you must notify your insurers of the disqualification. If they are unaware of a ban, they could refuse to indemnify if any claim is made for your vehicle during the period of the ban, even though you are not using the vehicle.
When the ban expires, if the disqualification was less than 56 days, the DVLA will return your driving licence. For bans in excess of 56 days, you will need to make a formal application for the licence to be reinstated. This is because the licence will have been automatically revoked and thus will still not be valid, even when the ban has been served.
Details of the disqualification will be endorsed on the licence. If you have not been specifically ordered to retake your driving test, you are allowed to resume driving as soon as the disqualification is completed and your licence returned.
If you were banned, how come you still have your licence - or is it a fake one?
As soon as the Court imposes a ban, you are disqualified with immediate effect. The Court will retain your driving licence and send it to the DVLA with confirmation of the period of disqualification. From a practical point of view, you must notify your insurers of the disqualification. If they are unaware of a ban, they could refuse to indemnify if any claim is made for your vehicle during the period of the ban, even though you are not using the vehicle.
When the ban expires, if the disqualification was less than 56 days, the DVLA will return your driving licence. For bans in excess of 56 days, you will need to make a formal application for the licence to be reinstated. This is because the licence will have been automatically revoked and thus will still not be valid, even when the ban has been served.
Details of the disqualification will be endorsed on the licence. If you have not been specifically ordered to retake your driving test, you are allowed to resume driving as soon as the disqualification is completed and your licence returned.
Mar 19th 2014, 6:53 pm
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Re: Driving in Canada
In order for them to return your old license, it is my understanding that they keep it in an archive somewhere.
If privacy laws keep provincial officers from calling to check, well guess what.
Years ago, I traded my BC license for one in Slovakia.
They actually never took my BC card, and I know for a fact they never informed BC. So for a couple of years, I had two licenses.
Mar 19th 2014, 7:00 pm
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Re: Driving in Canada
Mar 19th 2014, 7:06 pm
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I have been in contact with the DVLA since we've been in Canada. Our old licences had been returned to them and they were aware we had moved to Canada. You apply for a replacement licence on return to the UK. If they knew that, I would expect that they have some kind of reciprocal agreement in place.
If you were banned from driving OP, how do you have an unmarked licence?
If you were banned from driving OP, how do you have an unmarked licence?
Mar 20th 2014, 3:28 am
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I had points on license when I handed it in, it said it on paper part, no questions ask it doesn't apply is what she said, province only not bothered about UK history, so now I have a clean alberta license.
Mar 20th 2014, 3:32 am
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What is weird though is that a ban of 12 months should had resulted in a forfeiting of her license.
Mar 20th 2014, 3:33 am
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^^ hmm too true I have had pals on drunk driving and it got took off em and sent out to them when ban was up.
Mar 20th 2014, 4:58 pm
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Re: Driving in Canada
FOUND THIS TOO!!!!!
If I am disqualified from driving in the UK, will I be able to drive abroad?
If you are disqualified from driving by a court in the UK, this will not affect your right to drive elsewhere in the world, unless the domestic law in the country you are in provides for disqualifications from foreign countries to be recognised in their own.
The UK has an agreement in place with the Republic of Ireland where disqualifications imposed in either state will have effect in the other. In other words, if you are disqualified in the UK, this disqualification will also have effect in Ireland. This is the only agreement the UK has with another country in respect of the mutual recognition of a driving disqualification.
However, in order to drive abroad most countries will insist on you having a valid driving licence. In the absence of a valid driving licence you would be unable to hire a car or drive a car hired by someone else. You would also struggle to obtain insurance.
If you decide to drive abroad whilst you are disqualified in this country, although you will not be committing the offence of driving whilst disqualified, you could be committing the offence of driving without a valid licence. The punishment for this offence will vary from country to country but in most places the punishment is a fine.
If I am disqualified from driving in the UK, will I be able to drive abroad?
If you are disqualified from driving by a court in the UK, this will not affect your right to drive elsewhere in the world, unless the domestic law in the country you are in provides for disqualifications from foreign countries to be recognised in their own.
The UK has an agreement in place with the Republic of Ireland where disqualifications imposed in either state will have effect in the other. In other words, if you are disqualified in the UK, this disqualification will also have effect in Ireland. This is the only agreement the UK has with another country in respect of the mutual recognition of a driving disqualification.
However, in order to drive abroad most countries will insist on you having a valid driving licence. In the absence of a valid driving licence you would be unable to hire a car or drive a car hired by someone else. You would also struggle to obtain insurance.
If you decide to drive abroad whilst you are disqualified in this country, although you will not be committing the offence of driving whilst disqualified, you could be committing the offence of driving without a valid licence. The punishment for this offence will vary from country to country but in most places the punishment is a fine.
If one is disqualified from driving one's licence is not a valid one.
