Paper counterpart driving licence

Stay of Execution – The paper licence will still be in place until June

THE DVLA has applied the brakes to plans to end the counterpart paper-licence until 8 June.

It wants to ensure an efficient on-line system is in place for businesses to check driver details

It told Business Vans earlier this month that it would not be going ahead with the proposed abolition until later in the New Year.

It wants to ensure an efficient on-line system is in place for businesses to check driver details.

Now it has again reviewed its timetable and told the BVRLA and FTA that the IT checking system will be introduced in June to replace the paper counterpart which carries qualification data for drivers.

The agency has also responded to the BVRLA’s call for a real-time, online driver details checking service to be developed in advance of the abolition by promising ‘technical solutions that provide up-to-date, fit-for-purpose alternatives to the paper counterpart’.

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