Produce insurance within 10 days

bigboss1986

Hi all.I was stopped by unmarked garda this morning at 5am.I had all documents with me and all discs on the windscreen.
He checked and said I have to show them again at my local garda station :eek:
My local station is closed on most days so Is it possible to show documents at the main Galway garda station?
Will they give me any sort of receipt ?
Thanks

mgbgt1978

They normally ask you where you want to produce.....not where they decide.
If you do produce at a station other than your local one try to get a written acknowledgement that you did indeed produce the documents.
Just explain to the Guard at the desk that you were asked to produce at your local station but that isn't possible....
Even a dated Station Stamp on the back of your Insurance Cert should do.

Once your details are entered into the Pulse System you should be fine regardless of where you produced.

bigboss1986

He asked wich station im choosing but it was 5am and I forgot that my local one is closed for most of the day.
I will ask for receipt ,thanks .

K.Flyer

You say its not always open. You have ten days to present the documents, just find out which day the station is open and go then.
And +1 on getting some form of confirmation that you did produce, things can go wrong and it could save you a lot of trouble later.

slimjimmc

Regardless where you go make sure you bring everything; tax, insurance certificate, licence, NCT/DOE certificate, etc even if not requested to do so.

delahuntv

jaysus - he must have been in foul mood to ask you to reproduce them - or you gave him lip !

My guess he was in foul mood and wanted to piss you off.


But these days, presenting them in another station in the locality and informing garda that you were meant ot present in station A, is all you need to do especially if bith stations are in same area.

Possiby then give station A a phone call when you know they are open and let hem know you produced in station B

bigboss1986

delahuntv wrote: »

jaysus - he must have been in foul mood to ask you to reproduce them - or you gave him lip !

My guess he was in foul mood and wanted to piss you off.


But these days, presenting them in another station in the locality and informing garda that you were meant ot present in station A, is all you need to do especially if bith stations are in same area.

Possiby then give station A a phone call when you know they are open and let hem know you produced in station B

I'd say he was
BTW on the way from work checked Oranmore Garda station - closed,Athenry Garda station closed.WTF?

TherapyBoy

Make sure you bring your insurance certificate, not just the disc. I made that mistake before.

bigboss1986

TherapyBoy wrote: »

Make sure you bring your insurance certificate, not just the disc. I made that mistake before.

Thanks.I will do that tonight after work.I go to Uk tomorrow for few days so i need to get that sorted

coylemj

This story doesn't sound right - were these guys in uniform? There is no logic behind demanding to see the documents on the spot and then demanding that you produce them again in a Garda station named by you.

In fact they don't have the power to demand that you produce them again, they can only demand that you do so if you have refused or failed to produce them on the side of the road. For example, here's the rules about insurance....

69.—(1) (a) Where a member of the Garda Síochána has reasonable grounds for believing that a mechanically propelled vehicle has been used in a public place on a particular occasion (including a case in which the member has himself observed the use) and that the actual user of the vehicle on that occasion was a particular person, the member may, at any time not later than one month after the occasion, demand of the person the production of either a certificate of insurance or a certificate of guarantee or a certificate of exemption in respect of the use of the vehicle by the person on the occasion and, if the person refuses or fails to produce any such certificate then and there, he shall, unless within ten days after the day on which the production was demanded he produces such certificate in person to a member of the Garda Síochána at a Garda Síochána station named by the person at the time at which the production was demanded, be guilty of an offence.


http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1961/en/act/pub/0024/sec0069.html#sec69

And driving licence is the same...

40.—(1) (a) A member of the Garda Síochána may demand, of a person driving in a public place a mechanically propelled vehicle or accompanying pursuant to regulations under this Act the holder of a provisional licence while such holder is driving in a public place a mechanically propelled vehicle, the production of a driving licence then having effect and licensing him to drive the vehicle, and if such person refuses or fails to produce the licence there and then, he shall, unless within ten days after the date on which the production was demanded he produces such licence in person to a member of the Garda Síochána at a Garda Síochána station to be named by such person at the time at which the production was so demanded, be guilty of an offence.

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1961/en/act/pub/0024/sec0040.html#sec40