Penalty points query

Duffman'05

From the RSA website:

Any driver accumulating 12 penalty points within any given three-year period will be automatically disqualified from driving for six months. A lower threshold of 7 penalty points leading to disqualification applies to any driver taking out a first learner permit on or after 1 August 2014 while he or she drives under any learner permit and

subsequently during the first two years while he or she is driving under a full driving licence

Does that last part about the 7 point limit during the first two years on a full license also only apply to those who got their first learner permit on or after August 2014? Or is it now for any driver in their first two years with a full license?

mikeecho

Duffman'05 wrote: »

From the RSA website:

Any driver accumulating 12 penalty points within any given three-year period will be automatically disqualified from driving for six months. A lower threshold of 7 penalty points leading to disqualification applies to any driver taking out a first learner permit on or after 1 August 2014 while he or she drives under any learner permit and

subsequently during the first two years while he or she is driving under a full driving licence

Does that last part about the 7 point limit during the first two years on a full license also only apply to those who got their first learner permit on or after August 2014? Or is it now for any driver in their first two years with a full license?

Best to email the RSA and get a definitive answer, rather than posting here and getting Bar Stool Lawyers responses.

But from what you've posted, i would presume that an learner permit issued prior to August 2014 would be exempt.

Now having said that , any learner permit issued prior to August 2014, would now be expired.

GM228

Anyone who is a learner driver or a novice driver at the time that they reach 7+ points is disqualified, it does not matter when you first got your first learner permit.

biko

There should be points for spelling licence license.

mikeecho

biko wrote: »

There should be points for spelling licence license.

Licence and license. This confusion is so similar to practice and practise that once you've learned the difference for one, you instantly know it for the other! Licence is a noun, license is a verb. Before learning to drive, you apply for a provisional driving licence, but the DVLA must license you to drive.

grogi

biko wrote: »

There should be points for spelling licence license.

One is American, one British spelling. Let's not get into politics...

Similarly a tyre and a tire are both correct - but one should use one form consistently.

endacl

grogi wrote: »

One is American, one British spelling. Let's not get into politics...

Similarly a tyre and a tire are both correct - but one should use one form consistently.

Nope. As above, tire is a verb, while tyre is a noun.

:pac:

grogi

endacl wrote: »

Nope. As above, tire is a verb, while tyre is a noun.

:pac:

To tire is a verb in both - American and British English. A tire (AmE)/a tyre (BrE) is a noun.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/tire. Be sure to scroll down

endacl

grogi wrote: »

To tire is a verb in both - American and British English. A tire (AmE)/a tyre (BrE) is a noun.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/tire. Be sure to scroll down

Did you not notice the :pac:?