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Point on your driving record, when do they start?

  • 29-08-2012 10:34PM
    #1
    ProudDUB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭


    Hey folks, a question about the scenario below.

    Irish citizen living abroad is visiting Ireland for the summer. They have never had an Irish drivers license. They are driving here on their foreign license and they get a speeding ticket. They pay the fine, but the points can not go on their license as it is not Irish.

    If they then take up Irish residency at a later date, and get an Irish license, it is my understanding that the points will be applied to their Irish drivers license when they get it. As points stay "active" on your history for 3 years, when do the 3 years actually start? Do they start from the date of the speeding ticket/payment of fine, or from when the person in question actually gets the Irish license.

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    sunnysoutheast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,071 ✭✭✭sunnysoutheast


    ProudDUB wrote: »
    Hey folks, a question about the scenario below.

    Irish citizen living abroad is visiting Ireland for the summer. They have never had an Irish drivers license. They are driving here on their foreign license and they get a speeding ticket. They pay the fine, but the points can not go on their license as it is not Irish.

    If they then take up Irish residency at a later date, and get an Irish license, it is my understanding that the points will be applied to their Irish drivers license when they get it. As points stay "active" on your history for 3 years, when do the 3 years actually start? Do they start from the date of the speeding ticket/payment of fine, or from when the person in question actually gets the Irish license.

    Thanks.

    As far as I am aware they start when the Irish licence is issued. There was a thread on this a while back.


  • #3
    ProudDUB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    Thanks for that. Am asking on behalf of my Boston based cousin who was zapped by a mobile camera van when he was driving his mammys car when he was home for a visit. He will be relocating back here in the next 18 months or so, and was wondering if he got his learner permit before he headed back to the US, paid the fine and had the points for his offence go on that learner permit, would he be able to get the clock ticking, on his 3 years as soon as possible? If you are correct, I guess he won't be able to.


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