{"id":11503,"date":"2013-01-15T15:52:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T15:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=11503"},"modified":"2013-01-15T15:52:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T15:52:08","slug":"law-on-foreign-licence-exchange-tightened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=11503","title":{"rendered":"Law On Foreign Licence Exchange Tightened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This  email alert just came in. From 11 January 2013 (four days ago), the law has changed such that foreign drivers wishing to exchange their overseas licence for a UK one will have to <strong>prove that they have passed a test of comparable standard to the UK one.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a DVLA issue and nothing to do with the DSA.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone from any EU member state can drive here and exchange their licence without having to take a test. There are also a number of \u2018designated\u2019 countries outside the EU which the UK has an arrangement with (typically, Commonwealth or former-Commonwealth countries, but not exclusively so &#8211; Korea is in there, and Switzerland).<\/p>\n<p>But it seems that some of those countries allow foreign nationals from places where driving standards are poor to exchange their licences, and those people then have a shiny licence from a designated country to exchange over here. That\u2019s <strong>the loophole that has been stopped by having to provide proof of having completed a test.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The only thing that\u2019s niggling me is how they are going to police and enforce this.<\/p>\n<p>Lying and fraud is second nature to some people and I don\u2019t doubt for a moment that they will use such tactics to get the necessary \u201cproof\u201d. And how will the DVLA check?<\/p>\n<p>Your guess is as good as mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This email alert just came in. From 11 January 2013 (four days ago), the law has changed such that foreign drivers wishing to exchange their overseas licence for a UK one will have to prove that they have passed a test of comparable standard to the UK one. This is a DVLA issue and nothing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,87,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-news","category-transport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}