Speeding fine - points on licence

Hi all, just need to pick a few brains out there .....

Just received a speeding fine in the mail, which I am going to pay, but informs me that I will get points on my licence.  I still have a UK driving licence.  Am I now under obligation to exchange to a French licence so that the points will be issued?

All answers will be gratefully received.  Thanks, Sandra

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AdminPermalink Reply by Catharine Higginson on April 16, 2012 at 19:02

Zut alors Miles! Who would do such a thing?! :)

Permalink Reply by Shirley Morgan on April 18, 2012 at 1:26

we had to give our UK licences in to the sous-prefecture when we collected our French ones last year, apparently they are then returned to DVLA in Cardiff - and on that basis, from their computer records  wouldn't the DVLA then realise that 2 licences were in circulation? Or aren't they that clever?

Permalink Reply by Andrew Hearne on April 18, 2012 at 8:33

that's what I presumed too Shirley and so haven't tried to get a UK one even though I've lost a few points from my French one...!

Permalink Reply by Brian Milne on April 18, 2012 at 10:18

As it is I had UK, then German and then back to UK, so went from London when we had the old book things to Bonn with their equivalent and then to Cardiff and the card version with paper document. What I learned at the DVLA is that all of the EU's offices are linked with a central base in Brussels. By going to Cardiff with all my photographs signed on the back and so on I was able to go there at 1030 and go back to collect my new licence before 1500. In the process, they told me as part of the exchange, my German licence was annulled in Bonn electronically and Brussels updated. If that is the case then claims of having two licences, multiple licences and so on are what are known in vernacular as 'porkies'.

Permalink Reply by Shirley Morgan on April 18, 2012 at 13:16

so has my husband - all supposedly for speeding - he's had 4 tickets by post all from N France since he got his french licence - as someone else said here, how you can prove you didn't do something. They've got you over a barrel and the cheapest option is to put up and shut up and pay within the 14 days!

Daniel they deduct them here in France also.

Permalink Reply by Daniel White on March 20, 2012 at 15:09

I have a spanish license where points get taken away instead of being added, I hope they don't mix that system up if I should exchange it :P

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