How
to surrender your driving licence and return to driving at a later date
The
medical standards of fitness to drive are available to all medical practitioners.
There may be an occasion when your own doctor may have advised you not to drive,
in accordance with these standards. Surrendering
your driving licenceIf you have been
informed by your doctor not to drive you can surrender your driving licence to
the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA). Surrendering your licence removes
the need for the DVLA to make formal medical enquiries into your fitness to drive.
If medical enquiries are made and these confirm that you cannot meet the required
medical standards of fitness to drive, your licence will have to be revoked. If
you wish to surrender your driving licence you can download and complete the following
declaration (PDF format). If you want
to voluntarily surrender your lorry or bus entitlement, or want this entitlement
revoked for insurance purposes, you will require form VOC99, which can be download
from the link below: The
completed document can then be returned to us by post, fax or email. If you choose
to email the questionnaire(s) you should note that this is not a secure means
of communication and that DVLA accepts no responsibility for handling your email
until after it is received. You can post, fax and email your documents to the
following address and numbers below:
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If
you decide to return to driving after voluntary surrender If in the
future, following surrender, you apply for the restoration of your driving licence,
medical enquiries will need to be made. However, whilst these enquiries are being
carried out the law provides cover to drive under Section 88 of the Road Traffic
Act, 1988. This means that as soon as your application is received at DVLA (following
voluntary surrender) you may resume driving provided you meet the following criteria: - a
valid application is held at the DVLA
- you
have not or would not be refused or revoked a licence for medical reasons and
you are able to meet the medical standards of fitness to drive. These standards
are set down in "At a glance guide to the current standards of fitness to drive".
All medical practitioners have access to this publication, therefore if you are
in any doubt about your ability to meet these standards, you should check with
you doctor before you resume driving
- you
must have held a GB or Northern Ireland licence issued since 1 January 1976 or
another exchangeable licence
- you
keep to any special conditions which may apply to you, and to your licence
- you
are not disqualified from driving
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