disgo:
Where is the logic?
Have to renew photo on driving license after 10 years yet if your passport photo is less than 5 years old they will use that so in 10 years time the photo on license will be 15 years old.
Some genius came up with the excuse about one not looking like their photo in 10 years time, hence the need for a new one, but anyone with any intelligence knows it’s nothing more than a money making exercise in reality.
Done mine in post office a couple of months back, though the same about the photo being 15 year old with passport.
Totally agree money making exercise .
disgo:
Where is the logic?
Have to renew photo on driving license after 10 years yet if your passport photo is less than 5 years old they will use that so in 10 years time the photo on license will be 15 years old.
And the digi card expires every 5 years but they use the licence photo so that could be nearly 15 years old too if you have only just started with a tacho
My tacho has still got my 1st picture from my 1st photocard licence, but I’d had the photocard licence for about 7 or 8 years before I got my digi.
My licence has a new(er) picture, and the difference between the 2 is staggering.
My 1st pic was from my provisional bus licence application, my new pic is after 10yrs of bus / coach / truck driving and I’m about 7 stone heavier
disgo:
Where is the logic?
Have to renew photo on driving license after 10 years yet if your passport photo is less than 5 years old they will use that so in 10 years time the photo on license will be 15 years old.
Rob K:
Some genius came up with the excuse about one not looking like their photo in 10 years time, hence the need for a new one, but anyone with any intelligence knows it’s nothing more than a money making exercise in reality.
The same geniuses who come up with most of the expensive/annoying crap that makes our lives that little bit worse.
The latest EU Directive, effective January 2013, says the photo must be updated every 10 years, but does kindly(! - ) allow member states to ‘only’ require an update up to every 15 years. So I suppose that’s why our government have the less than 5-year-old passport photo rule, so it’s still within 15 years. If they increased the validity of photocard licences to 15 years, then the photo itself could be up to 20 years old, which would make Our Masters in Brussels very cross.
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) allow member states to ‘only’ require an update up to every 15 years. So I suppose that’s why our government have the less than 5-year-old passport photo rule, so it’s still within 15 years. If they increased the validity of photocard licences to 15 years, then the photo itself could be up to 20 years old, which would make Our Masters in Brussels very cross.