Penalty Points (endorsements): Overview - GOV.UK

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Contents

1. Overview
2. Endorsement codes and penalty points
3. How long endorsements stay on your driving record
4. New drivers
5. Returning your driving licence for endorsement
6. Removing expired endorsements from your driving record
7. How to check your endorsement details

Overview

The courts can fine you and ‘endorse’ your driving record with penalty points if you’re convicted of a motoring offence.

This guide is also available in Welsh (Cymraeg).

The endorsement and penalty points are put on your driver record. View your driving licence record to see what penalty points you have and when they’ll be removed.

Endorsements must stay on your driving record for 4 or 11 years, depending on the offence.

You can be disqualified from driving if you build up 12 or more penalty points within a period of 3 years. There are different rules for new drivers.

A non-endorsable offence is a motoring offence where you’re disqualified from driving, but you do not get any penalty points.

If you get no penalty points but are disqualified from driving for 56 or more days, you will have to pay to renew your licence. You can only renew your licence after the disqualification period ends.

Endorsement codes and processes in Northern Ireland are different.

Next:Endorsement codes and penalty points View a printable version of the whole guide

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