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Drink driving?

  • 30-11-2014 2:35pm
    #1
    liaml1974
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 ✭


    Hi folks,
    If a person from Northern Ireland is caught drink driving in the republic, if he loses his license can he still drive in the north?


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  • #2
    Pro Hoc Vice
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    liaml1974 wrote: »
    Hi folks,
    If a person from Northern Ireland is caught drink driving in the republic, if he loses his license can he still drive in the north?

    http://borderpeople.info/a-z/mutual-recognition-of-driving-disqualification.html


  • #3
    exgp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 126 ✭✭exgp


    liaml1974 wrote: »
    Hi folks,
    If a person from Northern Ireland is caught drink driving in the republic, if he loses his license can he still drive in the north?
    Yes he can, but the two governments are talking about changing this anomaly.


  • #4
    Pro Hoc Vice
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    exgp wrote: »
    Yes he can, but the two governments are talking about changing this anomaly.

    The law was changed a while ago.

    Mutual recognition and driver disqualifications

    From 28 January 2010 Ireland and the UK will operate the European Convention on Driving Disqualifications. This means that a driving disqualification which is imposed to a licence holder in the UK who is resident in Ireland can be recognised here and the person will not be able to drive in Ireland. Disqualifications imposed in Ireland to licence holders resident in the UK will similarly be capable of being implemented in the UK. Only disqualifications for traffic offences committed on or after 28 January 2010 are subject to this.

    http://www.rsa.ie/RSA/Licensed-Drivers/Penalty-points/StrategyRegulations/


  • #5
    jimmyl2015
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭jimmyl2015


    So does that mean you can drive in England when you are off the road in Ireland?


  • #6
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,638 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    jimmyl2015 wrote: »
    So does that mean you can drive in England when you are off the road in Ireland?


    no. an irish disqualification is recognised in the UK.


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  • #7
    mdebets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭mdebets


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    no. an irish disqualification is recognised in the UK.
    Has the law been changed already?
    The law posted above ceased on 1 December 2014 and new laws were needed in Ireland and the UK. Have they been introduced already?


  • #8
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,638 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    mdebets wrote: »
    Has the law been changed already?
    The law posted above ceased on 1 December 2014 and new laws were needed in Ireland and the UK. Have they been introduced already?


    recent thread on the same subject. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057477618


  • #9
    Fred Swanson
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  • #10
    mdebets
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    recent thread on the same subject. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057477618

    This all discusses the old law from 2010, which became obsolete on 1. December 2014, as these rules now are part of the European Court of Justice, of which the UK opted out (read first link on this threat), and which required new laws in the UK and Ireland to pass.
    So my question is have these new laws been passed by now or not?


  • #11
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    We have already had a thread on this topic recently.

    That thread was closed due to continuous inappropriate posting, to include personal abuse and breaches of forum charter.

    There is little to be gained by having another of these threads so soon, so this thread will also be closed.


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