Vehicle Insurance Cert

roryad

A friend of mine has just got summoned to court for (a)not being able to produce an insurance certificate and (b) failing to do so within 10 days (2 separate counts) This is even though she was fully insured and had a valid insurance disk displayed! I realize it was her bad not going to the station but I didn't know its a requirement to keep the actual cert as well as the disk in the car? Am i slightly ignorant or is this common knowledge?

slimjimmc

It's not a requirement to keep the certificate in the car, just to display the disc. However if a Garda demands it she must produce the certificate within 10days at the specific station nominated by her. Did she forget to do this?

Milk & Honey

She should go to the guard who issued the summons and show the cert. This should be done well in advance of the court date. She should appear at the court date and most likely it will be struck out.

source

The disc doesn't show that the person driving the car at the time has insurance, it just shows that there is insurance registered against the car with an insurance company.

In order to verify the details of who is insured to drive and what type of cover is on the vehicle, Gardai will make a legal demand under Section 69 Road Traffic Act 1961, for a driver to produce the certificate at a Garda Station of the driver's choice within 10 days.

If this is not done then an offence has been committed under Section 69. Usually you get 3 summonses for this offence, as it is presumed that if you didn't produce you don't have insurance. As Such you get one summons for No insurance, one for failing to produce within 10 days, and one for failing to display insurance.

Our man in Havana

Insurance disks are not worth the paper they are printed on.

Resend

foinse wrote: »

The disc doesn't show that the person driving the car at the time has insurance, it just shows that there is insurance registered against the car with an insurance company.

In order to verify the details of who is insured to drive and what type of cover is on the vehicle, Gardai will make a legal demand under Section 69 Road Traffic Act 1961, for a driver to produce the certificate at a Garda Station of the driver's choice within 10 days.

If this is not done then an offence has been committed under Section 69. Usually you get 3 summonses for this offence, as it is presumed that if you didn't produce you don't have insurance. As Such you get one summons for No insurance, one for failing to produce within 10 days, and one for failing to display insurance.

just curious as to how it would be recorded if you went to a different station to the one the reuesting garda was stationed.is it on pulse?

Our man in Havana

Yes it is. It is usually how they check to see if you did produce. Back in the olden days they used a device called a telephone.

source

Yeah it's entered into a form on pulse and saved, can then be looked up in any station in the country.

Resend

Our man in Havana wrote: »

Back in the olden days they used a device called a telephone.

i remember those. had a friend called button b butler, he was always pressed for money

Carawaystick

Our man in Havana wrote: »

Insurance disks are not worth the paper they are printed on.

nor are they in any way like a disc or disk, which would be circular at least.

Chnandler Bong

Carawaystick wrote: »

nor are they in any way like a disc or disk, which would be circular at least.

Insurance square??

Our man in Havana

Due to the stupid insure the driver system used in Ireland, these pieces of windscreen paper are pointless as proof of insurance.

coylemj

In the old days there was a big book in each station for recording driving licence and insurance that were produced by people to the Gardai in that station. The Garda who stopped you would then phone the station nominated by you and he'd ask the local Gardai to check the book to see if the documents were produced.