Road Traffic Offenders (Surrender of Driving Licences Etc) Bill
This Bill is essentially intended to update the law in relation to the production and surrender of driving licences, making changes principally to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 and to the Road Traffic (New Drivers) Act 1995, with consequential adjustment of other statutes affected.
These are changes largely required as a consequence of the abolition of the paper driving licence counterpart in June 2015. Since abolition there has been no need for a driving licence to be produced for an endorsement to be recorded against a driver’s driving record, as this can be done electronically on the person’s driver record, which is held by the DVLA. The only need for a licence to be produced or surrendered is therefore where the driver may be sentenced to disqualification, or is actually disqualified.