TAC2166

EOI - Question 11 - "Have you ever been convicted or found guilty of any offences against the law?"........Trying to be as honest as possible!! Does this include traffic offences? I was fined 20yrs ago for driving without due care - ran a red light, hit a wall ended up in someone's front garden!!!

planty

Put it in, if nothing else it'll put a smile on their faces.

sky

Clean traffic record ... until I came here

planty

And?

come on spill the beans.

sky

It's just so easy to lose your licence over here, 20 points here, 20 points there ... soon mounts up to 100 and that's it your licence is gone!
Although! you can get a special licence I believe, even if you have lost yours :scared: and it allows you to drive to work and back :scared:

planty

Hi, am I right in thinking insurance is optional?

If so, where do you stand if your involved in an accident with an uninsured driver? Do you loose your no claims bonus even if its not your fault? Is there a no claims bonus with insurers over there? and Do cars have an MOT each year? Road Tax?

Thanks for any answers.

sky

Yes insurance is optional

Don't know about the rest cos it ain't happened yet

Warrant Of Fitness is what cars need here every six months but it's not like the scarey MOT in the UK, any old shite sails though as long as it has a windscreen, four tyres and brakes to stop it!

You also need to register your car which is the same as car road tax in the UK and also diesel cars have an extra tax on their miles.

Jeeper

In NZ they are not interest in traffic offences in this case. They are interested in civil offences.....i.e. criminal record.

Traffic offences don't go on your criminal record (unless you killed someone and it was manslaughter or drink driving or something like that.)

Jeeper

Also, events including Criminal convictions more than 7 years old do not need to be disclosed (I think that law was passed last year)...but not sure.
Can anyone verify that?

Carkedit

This is very true..I know of a twat (who is the worst driver in the world) who knocked some poor woman of her bike and broke her arm, he lost his licence and then he got a special licence to alow him to drive for work. I do believe it restricts your driving hours to your work hours though (because of course idiot drivers only knock people over after work hours)