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Forgive me if this has been posted in the wrong forum or if it has been posted several times before but I am new to this forum.

I want to accept a conditional offer but have a N. Ireland licence so need to fill a D9 form to get a GB counterpart licence. The DVLA say this will take 7 weeks to process and obviously I need to accept the offer within the 28 days (plus additional 14 days) time frame. Does anyone know if I can ring the appropriate camera unit and get the offer accepted whilst waiting for the counterpart application to come through? Any advice would be gratefully appreciated. I thought NI was part of GB anyway?

Cheers!

write to the SCP for advice.

Tell them you have a full NI licence and wish to accept their conditional offer. Ask them if it's ok for you to send them the NI one or not.

1: they may just forget about you.

2: if you do have to go to court then you can produce the letter (and response) as you being reasonable and hopefully this should mitigate against a higher fine/costs.

As far as I see it you shouldn't be denied the opportunity of a CO simply on the basis of where you live.....I would imagine that there are human rights issues here.

Don't ring them.

Write to them.

or go to Pepipoo

Thanks for that Civil Engineer. I've spent the last 32 years being told that NI is in Britain and now I have moved here it's a different story! Ah well nothing was ever straightforward over there so what's a bit more cr@p along the way?!

I'll write to them and see what happens. The SCP enquiry line have logged minutes of my previous calls so if it goes to court at least that will show I was trying to solve the problem rather than run away from it.

A colleague I used to work with had NI and GB licences. Can't remember exactly how it worked, but when she got some points, they went on one of them (probably the GB one), and the other was used for insurance.

Thus she remained within the law, took her punishment 'like a man', but didn't suffer the insurance nasties related to it.

Before the trolls start their flaming, I cannot recall exactly how it worked, so my account could be quite wrong, and I am certainly not advocating lying to the insurance companies or perverting the course of justice blah. I simply recall we once spoke on the topic, and with the questions the insurers asked the points simply never came up.

Don't count on their logs for goodness sake!

Make a note of any time/date of call, who you spoke to and the content of the call, with anything that was agreed. Writing to them is better as you can keep hard copies of all correspondence, both ways.

check on pepipoo as i'm certainly no expert.

But the way I see it, if you do nothing then you'll simply be summonsed, if you send your NI licence off you'll probably be summonsed.

Writing to them to ask for advice seems to be the sencsible way forward. And at the end of the day what could be more reasonable than asking for advice?

I've taken names of the people I spoke to, what they said and times of when I spoke to them just in case. Trust no-one!