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Insurance certificate

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  • 16-03-2010 9:50pm
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    Alex888
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭


    Help me, please!!! Tell me, please, why a policeman wanted to check my insurance certificate (i have my insurance disk on the windscreen) ?? He also told me to present it in ten days at the police.... WHY??? Reply please if you know something about it!
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    af_thefragile
    Registered Users Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    To make sure the insurance is in your name or you're a named driver on the insurance.
    And you're not just driving around someone's car which has insurance on it.


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    Alex888
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭Alex888


    I forgot to tell you that my insurance certificate by that moment was at home....and why do they need it?


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    Alex888
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭Alex888


    #2, thanks a lot!


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    af_thefragile
    Registered Users Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Just take your insurance cert to them and it should be sorted out.
    Shouldn't be anything to worry about.


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    Alex888
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭Alex888


    af_thefragile wrote: »
    Just take your insurance cert to them and it should be sorted out.
    Shouldn't be anything to worry about.



    thanks again! :)


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    dudara
    Registered Users Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    It's pretty much standard if you're stopped that they'll ask you to present your insurance and driving licence within 10 days at the nominated station.

    I had to do it last year after I was crashed into. Although it was not my fault, it was SOP (standard operating procedure) for the Gardaí.

    Make sure you do it. Failure to produce is an offence. And make sure that you do it at the nominated station. The PULSE system will be expecting you.


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    Alex888
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭Alex888


    dudara wrote: »
    It's pretty much standard if you're stopped that they'll ask you to present your insurance and driving licence within 10 days at the nominated station.

    I had to do it last year after I was crashed into. Although it was not my fault, it was SOP (standard operating procedure) for the Gardaí.

    Make sure you do it. Failure to produce is an offence. And make sure that you do it at the nominated station. The PULSE system will be expecting you.

    thanks! but in case i wouldn't present my insurance certificate in these 10 days at the nominated station? what will happen? Reply please!


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    af_thefragile
    Registered Users Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Alex888 wrote: »
    thanks! but in case i wouldn't present my insurance certificate in these 10 days at the nominated station? what will happen? Reply please!

    You'll probably get a court order and things will then be a little bad.

    Just go and show them your insurance cert. Its no big deal.


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    dudara
    Registered Users Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    Alex888 wrote: »
    thanks! but in case i wouldn't present my insurance certificate in these 10 days at the nominated station? what will happen? Reply please!

    As I said, the PULSE system will be expecting you. The Garda who took your details will have entered them onto the system when he returned to the station.

    When you don't present your details in the allotted timeframe, a summons application will probably be issued for you to appear in court for failure to produce.

    It's really quite simple. Find insurance cert -> drive to Garda station -> show to Garda at desk. He will then enter your details into the system, and all will be good.


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    Alex888
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭Alex888


    af_thefragile wrote: »
    You'll probably get a court order and things will then be a little bad.

    Just go and show them your insurance cert. Its no big deal.

    :) ok....thnks...


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    Alex888
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭Alex888


    dudara wrote: »
    As I said, the PULSE system will be expecting you. The Garda who took your detail will have entered them onto the system when he returned to the station.

    When you don't present your details in the allotted timeframe, a summons application will probably be issued for you to appear in court for failure to produce.

    It's really quite simple. Find insurance cert -> drive to Garda station -> show to Garda at desk. He will then enter your details into the system, and all will be good.

    you're so sweet! thnks a lot!


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    MunsterCycling
    Registered Users Posts: 4,864 ✭✭✭MunsterCycling


    dudara wrote: »
    As I said, the PULSE system will be expecting you. The Garda who took your details will have entered them onto the system when he returned to the station.

    When you don't present your details in the allotted timeframe, a summons application will probably be issued for you to appear in court for failure to produce.

    It's really quite simple. Find insurance cert -> drive to Garda station -> show to Garda at desk. He will then enter your details into the system, and all will be good.


    Get stamp of the Garda station on a signed note confirming you produced your details as evidence of same, they tend to lose things regularly.

    MC


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    Toots
    Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,920 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    I had to produce mine in the Garda station recently. As Dudara said, it's standard procedure. My Garda station gave me a printed receipt thing too, with a stamp on it. Hold on to that as your confirmation that you've presented it.


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    #15
    mama_mia
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭mama_mia


    I was stopped by a Guard whilst i was driving a car from a garage as the engine went in my car. They asked me to produce my cert of insurance also. I am third party fire and theft. I got the report and it states im covered for closed driving. Does this mean i wasnt insured to drive the car whichi have now bought from the garage? I did switch my insurance cover temporarily but now extended as i am keeping the car. Please advise


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