Road Traffic Offenders (Surrender of Driving Licences Etc) Bill

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.