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Section 15 - Penalty points, fixed charges and driving bans

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Section 15.3 - Driving bans

you will receive a notice telling you that you have been banned from driving for 6 months from a particular date, and
you will have to hand in your driving licence to your local motor tax office within 14 days of the start of the driving ban.

You will be banned from driving if you are convicted in court of an offence such as drink driving, dangerous driving or leaving the scene of a crash. You will be banned from driving as a result of the conviction alone, no matter how many penalty points are on your licence record.
The courts can issue driving bans for any offences involving vehicles, not just the offences already resulting in automatic bans. The court will decide the period of the ban in each case.
If you are convicted in court, you may be fined and, in some cases, face a prison term.

REMEMBER
It is an offence not to surrender your licence. It is an offence to drive while banned from doing so.