Your guide to endorsements for driving offences

How to get a disqualification removed

If you have been disqualified for more than two years, you can apply to the court that gave you the last disqualification to have it removed after a minimum period. This is:

• two years if you were disqualified for less than four years
• half the period of disqualification if it is less than 10 but not less than four years
• five years if you were disqualified for 10 years or more

Short Period Disqualifications (SPD)
If you were disqualified for less than 56 days, the court will stamp your licence and give it back to you. The stamp will tell you how long you are disqualified for. You do not need to renew your licence when the short period disqualification ends. Your licence becomes valid again the day after the expiry of the disqualification.

Revocation under The Road Traffic (New Drivers) Act 1995
This Act will affect you if you pass your first driving test on or after 1 June 1997. If you incur penalty points in the two year period immediately following your first successful driving test, and your penalty points add up to six or more (including any that were incurred within three years of the latest conviction) your licence will be revoked by the DVLA. You will then have to obtain a provisional licence, drive as a learner, and pass the theory and practical test again in order to regain your full driving licence.

Passing the re-test will not remove the penalty points from your licence, and if the total reaches 12, you are liable to be disqualified by a court.

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