Driver Licence Number

The requirement to provide your driver number to your insurer comes into effect on 31st March. The requirement is only when renewing a policy or taking out a new policy. Therefore you will only have to provide your driver number to your insurer when you renew in September.

Maybe the answer is just too obvious.

AGS will know you are driving on a learner permit because they will observe your L plates before stopping you.

They already have all that info on the registered owner by just running the reg.

And presumably you had to send a copy of your permit to your insurance when you took it out, so they already have your driver number from that.

they’ll ask you to show your licence, if you say it’s not with you, you’ll be asked to produce at a station.

Look, OP, worst case scenario the car is seized and you get a €160 fine + 2 points. With a couple of weeks til your test either bring an accomp with you going forward or hope you don’t run into any gardai.

That is not a Herculean task anyway.

My insurance company (123) is asking for details, even though the policy does not expire until July

No. I have never been asked for a driver number. After all, the requirement only becomes compulsory after 31st March

If you've never had to send them a copy of your licence up to now you've been lucky, every policy I've taken out within the last few years always requires a copy of all associated driver licenses front and back to be submitted within a time frame or it's cancelled.

If you have submitted the licence and they're still asking you for a driver number then they're just too lazy to pull it from all the licenses.

I think you are quoting me by mistake. I've had a full licence man and boy since 1983

Will this put an end to the many thousands who are driving on our roads for many years with a Provisional License having never even attempted doing a test? If so then its great news.

The thousands of learner permit holders that cancel tests and then are able to renew their learner permit.

Anpr is being expanded greatly and registration numbers will connect to insurance which will connect to driver number which will tell gardai who is insured to drive the vehicle.

Yes but they don't and there is no enforcement of any law in this country.

I am talking about law in the Motoring forum in regards provisional license.

There are people who are driving on provisional over 40 years on their own, no L plates.

There is no enforcement of motoring law in this context.

It's €160 fine and 2 penalty points if driving unaccompanied. Car can be seized too.

That's way too low a penalty. Learner permit should be automatically cancelled and them banned from reapplying for a period of time.

Well yes, but that's a different argument.