Renewing Driving Licence while out of the country

irelandsown

Anyone know how to renew a license if your out of the country? Mine expires next year but I'll be in Australia. I wont be able to drive over there if my license is expired. I cant renew until 3 months before it expires which is not until July 09.

Victor

Probably best if you talk to your local council - its the motor tax office that issues licences.

jimmycrackcorm

Prepare everything before you go away so that you can Post from Oz.

p

You can just do it by post. You can download the forms online etc....

Just get friends or family here to post it to you out in Oz. Course, I'm sure if you just go into them with all forms filled now, they'll give you a new one no probs.

dsane1

Just wondering ,if you lost your current licence would they just issue a new one for the remainder or could you get a 10 year ?

Alun

dsane1 wrote: »

Just wondering ,if you lost your current licence would they just issue a new one for the remainder or could you get a 10 year ?

I wondered that too ... if they'll issue a replacement that's valid for 10 years then I'd just conveniently 'lose' it.

L1011

Replacements last to the date of the licence they're replacing - or at least mine does.

Moonbeam

swop it for an Oz one? and then you swop it for an irish one on return.

L1011

Moonbeam wrote: »

swop it for an Oz one? and then you swop it for an irish one on return.

This would work if Australia let you exchange - I'm not sure it is mutual but we do definately let Aussie licences swap here.

Problem then could be getting penalty points (or are they called demerit points? something like that) in Australia.

Moonbeam

There is.

It was even a case at one stage that they didn't quite understand our provisional licence system so a 3rd prov could get you a full licence that you could exchange on return to Ireland:)