The Provisional Licence

UK driving school will be providing you with provisional driving licence information and all you need to know about driving in the UK and graduating from being a provisional licence holder into a full license holder.

As a learner driver, it is your responsibility to abide by the terms of your provisional driving licence not only to make sure you don't break the law, but you could also be invalidating your driving insurance.

In the UK, as a provisional licence holder, you can only drive a car if you are accompanied by a full UK driving licence holder who is over the age of 21, and has held a licence for a least 3 years. While driving, the car must also be displaying 'L' plates, and you are not allowed to drive on the motorway. You must be insured to drive the car, this can either be by having insurance in your name, or by being a named driver on the insurance policy of the owner of the car. Don't try and use a fake provisional driving licence to learn to drive a car in the UK, as not only will you be putting yourself into trouble, but also your friend or family member supervising you.

The minimum age you can apply for a provisional licence is 16.

The Driving licence consists of two parts, the provisional photocard, and the paper counterpart where endorsements and penalty points are recorded. You must produce both parts of your provisional when requested by a law enforcement officer, or anyone else who might have resonable cause for it such as a third party at an accident scene and needing to confirm identity and insurance cover.

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