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Lost expired drivers licence

  • 05-10-2019 4:25pm
    #1
    billyhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭


    I am planning to get a new licence as my previous one expired but I cant find it. Do the NDLS have a register of qualified drivers on a database or similar. Can I just make an appointment with them and complete the documentation, get my photo taken etc.


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  • #2
    mikeecho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,267 ✭✭✭mikeecho


    billyhead wrote: »
    I am planning to get a new licence as my previous one expired but I cant find it. Do the NDLS have a register of qualified drivers on a database or similar. Can I just make an appointment with them and complete the documentation, get my photo taken etc.

    https://ndls.ie/how-to-apply.html

    https://ndls.ie/images/Documents/DrivingLicence/D401_Full_Licence_app_form.pdf
    If you bring your Public Services Card (PSC) to the NDLS it will simplify your application process. An applicant will have two options to validate their identity and residency during the application process.


    1. Presenting a PSC at the NDLS centre will simplify your application process as the PSC will satisfy the following requirements:

    Photographic ID,
    Evidence of PPSN,
    Evidence of address (where your address is as provided to the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection DEASP) and
    Evidence of residency entitlement (where your place of birth or nationality are within the European Union / European Economic Area/Switerland).

    Fill out the form, and get the section for loss of licence stamped at a Garda Stn.


  • #3
    billyhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭billyhead


    mikeecho wrote: »
    https://ndls.ie/how-to-apply.html

    https://ndls.ie/images/Documents/DrivingLicence/D401_Full_Licence_app_form.pdf



    Fill out the form, and get the section for loss of licence stamped at a Garda Stn.

    Cheers.I presume they will know I had a full drivers licence before I lost it and also that it had already expired it wont be an issue?


  • #4
    wonski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,685 ✭✭✭✭wonski


    Pretty sure they know who has a license ;)


  • #5
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,688 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    You would hope so.
    Years ago, I went to renew my provisional. Couldn't locate it.
    Filled whatever form was required and got it sent in. They came back saying i never had a provisional and I needed to start from scratch and were fairly sharp about it.
    I found the licence anyway and sent it off to them. The response was - oh ok. We found you now.
    This was before NDLS but crazy really.


  • #6
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,624 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    If you have a PSC card, you can renew your driving licence online and you do not need to send in the old licence. I did it, the new licence arrived in a few days so I ripped up the old licence and tossed it in the bin. It could have been lost like the OP's for all they knew.


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