Unless the criteria are stricter for PCV / PSV?
I believe you can just exchange your NZ licence for a UK one. DVLA have a form. You're required to notify them that you are on insulin. This may cause a delay in granting the licence while they do medical checks via your hospital consultant or GP. I believe you can drive on your NZ licence while you wait. You can elect not to physically surrender the NZ licence I think.I have a general type question. My last UK licence expired in about 2010 and as I was living in NZ I obviously didn't bother trying to renew it .I came back to the country last summer and was driving on my NZ licence. However I was having some severe issues with night time hypos and I voluntary stood myself down from driving and haven't been behind the wheel since .I didn't inform the DVLA of this. I just stopped driving and cancelled my insurance etc.
Since then I have attended a DAFNE course and although I am sometimes hypo unaware my general levels are much better. So I am thinking about getting my UK licence renewed but as I haven't had a valid one here for 4 years will this mean I may have to resit a test etc? And if not does anyone know if there is a limit for the gap between licences?
I believe you can just exchange your NZ licence for a UK one. DVLA have a form. You're required to notify them that you are on insulin. This may cause a delay in granting the licence while they do medical checks via your hospital consultant or GP. I believe you can drive on your NZ licence while you wait. You can elect not to physically surrender the NZ licence I think.
I did this with a Swiss licence a few years ago so hopefully the same for NZ, though NZ is not in the EU/EEA so it might be different.
Shame as my Swiss licence had no review until I was 80 or something. The Swiss are crazy like that.
I believe you can just exchange your NZ licence for a UK one. DVLA have a form. You're required to notify them that you are on insulin. This may cause a delay in granting the licence while they do medical checks via your hospital consultant or GP. I believe you can drive on your NZ licence while you wait. You can elect not to physically surrender the NZ licence I think.
I did this with a Swiss licence a few years ago so hopefully the same for NZ, though NZ is not in the EU/EEA so it might be different.
Shame as my Swiss licence had no review until I was 80 or something. The Swiss are crazy like that.
Whilst at the doctors yesterday i was told that the dvla may pick up on the fact that i ordered a hypokit and hypogel recently and take it that i need help from other people during a hypo. This is not the case, i ordered the hypokit as my other one has expired and the hypogel to keep at my partners house for emergencies. Since being diagnosed 7 years ago i have never needed any help during a hypo, fortunately. Even my doctor agreed that the dvla are going about this the wrong way!.
Thanks People for the replies.
Have decided that I am going to go to Citizens Advice and take their advice on taking legal action against DVLA. Why should they revoke my licence even after them being given 6 not 3 months of stable readings? To me this sounds as if they're "blanket Discriminating" against Diabetics?
The reason that I'm doing this is, that DVLA says that the only way that you can make a complaint against their decision is to take them to your Magistrates Court, they even warn you to beware that this could prove costly? Is this their way of telling you that "we're not budging?" Our decision is FINAL:....
Do Diabetes UK, have any "printable" fact sheets that I can swot up with?
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