sid Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 I'm asking! [:-))] sounds so interesting! [blink] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 Me too, I don't know of any circumstances in which a person can concurrently hold 2 valid UK driving licences (nor 2 different EU ones come to that) buy I'm perfectly willing to be educated on the point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
londoneye Posted April 18, 2011 Author Share Posted April 18, 2011 Oh not as mysterious as I made it sound - sorry to disappoint. In UK he lost his licence (as in mislaid) and got a new one. When we got to France and eventually unpacked we found the original licence, which I am sure we should have returned but of course never got around to, so in effect he has two.Fully accept that it can't be legal though so not a good idea - generally speaking we are pretty law abiding (ha ha clearly not always otherwise we wouldn't be having this debate).I suppose we will have to chance the licence - annoying but not end of the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 I'd need Sunday to confirm this but I'm pretty sure that the upside of this is that on your return to the UK there will be no need for him to renew his licence once he's 70 or ten years are up (whichever is the sooner) because the French one is for life, n'est-ce pas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunday Driver Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 The French licence is only 'for life' if you live in France. If you return to take up residence in the UK, then it will be valid there until you are aged 70 or for three years after becoming resident, whichever is the longer period. You must then exchange it for a UK licence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Pity.Thanks, S/D.[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubbles Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Thanks, SD. That saved me asking.We have French licences but are moving back to England next month and wondered what the situation was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chezciel Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 bonne chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyh4 Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 [quote user="Sunday Driver"]The French licence is only 'for life' if you live in France. If you return to take up residence in the UK, then it will be valid there until you are aged 70 or for three years after becoming resident, whichever is the longer period. You must then exchange it for a UK licence. [/quote] Do you know whay that is SD? It seems strange that in France an EU licence is valid for the length of its validity but in the UK it is not. I thought this was a point of EU law, since I know Germany got its botty smacked by the EU for insisting on licence changes back in the late 90s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Until the EU directive on licence harnonistion is fully implemented, still decades away IMO, each member state is free to apply certain of it's own rules on age limits and restrictions etc. About the one thing they do seem to have more or less in common is that something happens at age 70. For the French it's medicals to continue towing over certain weights, in UK although medical issues start to play a part in post 70 renewals no such limitations come into it, if you are deemed fit to drive at all you carry on exactly as before.Both in this and many other fields the utopian theories of the EU are poles apart and very very long way from being put into practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malclom Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 Just a quickie.Don't forget(like I did) that no matter how reluctant you may be to lose your UK licence ,the photocard is only valid for 10 years and cannot be renewed if you do not have a UK address.On the plus side ,getting a French licence was dead easy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chezstevens Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 [quote user="AnOther"][quote user="londoneye"]Err actually Mr Stupid has two UK licences (best not go there)[/quote]Err, no he doesn't.Your OH's most recently issued UK licence automatically cancelled any and all previous ones rendering them utterly worthless.If he fraudulently offers up an old cancelled licence for exchange then in due course the Prefecture will return it to DVLA when the deceit will be revealed and he will be in far more serious trouble than a mere speeding fine.[/quote]But having a fake license will then match folks not having re-registered their vehicles ... so Brit Plates, No MOT, No Excise Tax (cos folks have declared their vehicle off-road thru SORN), fake license and no insurance. This is not aimed at OP and I am not looking to introduce thread creep. Just humour with an underlying message Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonzjob Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 CS, as they say "many a true jest is spoken in words" or something like that, in this case, in jest????? In for a penny, in for several €€€We have an even better situation near here where one of our "ve hav vasee of making you takk" friends wot drives his Land Rover around with NO registration plates on it at all! Quite how he gets away with it I haff no idea, but I hope to hell he don't hit me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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