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6 Month Wait for Test, Any Exceptions?

  • 16-06-2010 7:31pm
    #1
    Paul Mc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭


    After having 2 provisionals, the last expiring in 99 I've recently had to apply for my drivers permit for a job in the UK.

    I thought I could get the permit, get an assesment lesson and some pretests and avail of a cancelation pretty quickly but I've been snookered by the new 6 month rule.

    I understand the logic and as it's 5 years plus since my last provisional I'm benefitting in getting a fresh permit without having done or failed a test previously.

    Has anyone have any experience of accelerating a test or recieveing an exemption on the basis of employment requirements or other reasons?

    Who would I even appeal to about this?

    Thanks in advance.


Comments

  • #2
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    The 6 month wait before sitting the test is a statutory requirement. It cannot be shortened.


  • #3
    Permabear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39,022 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


    This post has been deleted.


  • #4
    Paul Mc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭Paul Mc


    Just found this thread discussing it. Sorry to rehash.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055889608&highlight=moving


  • #5
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    You can apply for the test anytime you wish and book a time for the test after your 6 months are complete. That way you can make sure you get to do your test exactly after 6 months of getting your learner license. That's what I did and I got my first test date about 2 weeks after I had completed the 6 months on my license.


  • #6
    bigar
    Registered Users Posts: 596 ✭✭✭bigar


    This is really a crazy rule if you have no car of your own.

    So if you want to take lessons straight away and go for your test, you still need to wait six months even if you have no car.

    Surely, if you decide to take lessons only, you should not have to wait for this long?

    Another crazy situation was when a colleague of mine lost his Belgian driving licence and could get a new one here. So he decided to go for an Irish one and had to wait 6 months too even though he has been driving for over 25 years. So I was his experienced driver accompanying him although I have less experience in years than him.


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  • #7
    ztoical
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,788 ✭✭✭ztoical


    bigar wrote: »
    This is really a crazy rule if you have no car of your own.

    So if you want to take lessons straight away and go for your test, you still need to wait six months even if you have no car.

    Usually people who are just taking lessons and don't own a car take longer to learn to drive unless they are seriously loaded and have loads of free time to take several lessons a week. Alot of countries have similar rules for learners.
    bigar wrote: »
    Another crazy situation was when a colleague of mine lost his Belgian driving licence and could get a new one here. So he decided to go for an Irish one and had to wait 6 months too even though he has been driving for over 25 years. So I was his experienced driver accompanying him although I have less experience in years than him.

    Honestly your colleague was a little silly, the cost of taking the driving test was surely more then the cost of a flight back to Belgium to replace his licence?


  • #8
    izzyflusky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭izzyflusky


    bigar wrote: »
    This is really a crazy rule if you have no car of your own.

    So if you want to take lessons straight away and go for your test, you still need to wait six months even if you have no car.

    Surely, if you decide to take lessons only, you should not have to wait for this long?

    Another crazy situation was when a colleague of mine lost his Belgian driving licence and could get a new one here. So he decided to go for an Irish one and had to wait 6 months too even though he has been driving for over 25 years. So I was his experienced driver accompanying him although I have less experience in years than him.

    My ma got my da's licence into the washing machine so he had to get a new one. His licence was spanish and he had no problem in getting an irish one here. He was given the option of getting an irish, or if he prefered just a receipt sort of thing stapled on his wrecked licence until he was able to over to Spain and get a spanish one over there.


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