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2 driving licences

  • 28-01-2013 5:43pm
    #1
    PoopyMcDildo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8 ✭


    What would the consequences of having 2 driving licences from different countries?


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  • #2
    Gosub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭Gosub


    Why would there be consequences? :confused:


  • #3
    ION08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,525 ✭✭✭ION08


    Eternal damnation


  • #4
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Epic username :D


  • #5
    ThreeLineWhip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭ThreeLineWhip


    I believe it is illegal.


  • #6
    goz83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,035 ✭✭✭goz83


    ThreeLineWhip wrote: »
    I believe it is illegal.

    Two licenses for the same thing would be, yes. You either keep the one you have, or surrender it, if you're allowed, to the country you are living.


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  • #7
    Wheelnut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 977 ✭✭✭Wheelnut


    If nobody asks you and you don't tell anybody, there will be no consequences.


  • #8
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    PoopyMcDildo wrote: »
    What would the consequences of having 2 driving licences from different countries?

    One of my friends had 2 licenses, Irish and Italian, used his Italian one here and his Irish one in Italy. If he ever got pulled over he put on his thickest Eyetalian accent, spoke mostly with his hands and pretended to have Zoolander's IQ...

    No speeding tickets, ever...

    Although now with the camera's I guess that wouldn't work anymore.


  • #9
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,704 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    If you obtained your Irish licence from scratch i.e. nowadays do the theory test, then wait 6 months or more on a learner permit and then pass the test, there is no stated obligation anywhere that you have to surrender a foreign licence when applying for an Irish one so why would you?

    And if you arrived home from Mongolia with one of their driving licences, you'd have to do the theory test and driving test anyway so why would you surrender a licence that wasn't capable of being exchanged for an Irish one?


  • #10
    Marcusm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,760 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    ThreeLineWhip wrote: »
    I believe it is illegal.

    I think you're right as regards EU or exchangeable licences; seem to recall that I traced the EU regulation and back through the Irish enabling provisions some time ago. Not likely to be a problem for (eg) a US licence holder applying for an Irish licence through normal test procedures.


  • #11
    aujopimur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,953 ✭✭✭aujopimur


    You can have as many as you like, whether they are valid depends on where you and how you use them.


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  • #12
    T-Maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,256 ✭✭✭T-Maxx


    PoopyMcDildo wrote: »
    What would the consequences of having 2 driving licences from different countries?
    dgt wrote: »
    Epic username :D

    Poop on your dildo?:pac:


  • #13
    Silvera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,031 ✭✭✭Silvera


    In 2004/2005 I had an Irish Driving Licence and a Cook Islands Driving Licence :D


  • #14
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    I believe it's illegal to have more than one driving licence issued by EU country.

    I can't see the problem with having any other licences though.


  • #15
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    coylemj wrote: »
    If you obtained your Irish licence from scratch i.e. nowadays do the theory test, then wait 6 months or more on a learner permit and then pass the test, there is no stated obligation anywhere that you have to surrender a foreign licence when applying for an Irish one so why would you?

    When you apply for a licence in Ireland, you have to indicate on the form that you don't hold licence from any EU country, and sign it.
    So there is an obligation to surrender a foreign licence once it's from EU.


  • #16
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,565 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    I have an Irish licence and a New Zealand one, the missus got her Irish one taken when she applied for her NZ one though. Apparently there's some EU rule that says you have to surrender it but only Germany and Ireland actually enforce it


  • #17
    ThreeLineWhip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭ThreeLineWhip


    What would be the penalty if you didn't?


  • #18
    monkeypants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭monkeypants


    Either of them under the name Poopy McDildo? That'd be worse than that Polish fella with all the speeding tickets.


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