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 licence
If
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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