On 12/4/2003 9:37 PM, Ian J Cottee wrote:
> Declan Murphy <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> writes:
> 
>>Nice! Why is it in two pieces though? Cut in two by a pommie bobby, or
>>are UK licences still made of paper?
> 
> My one is paper and has just been folded too many times. I guess I had
> better replace it soon as the new ones are plastic I think.
> 
>>>it was my six month old son grinning at him the whole time which won him
>>>over. I also got my UK licence back at the end of the process, which I
>>>was not expecting.
>>
>>I'm not sure what the deal is. I managed to keep my Oz licence when I
>>first obtained the Japanese one at Hirabari, but last time I was in
>>Dublin I was told I'd need to surrender the Japanese one in order to
>>obtain an Irish licence. Some kind of bilateral setup perhaps.
> 
> Not sure either. I had been assured it would be taken from me. But it
> wasn't and I wasn't going to say anything. Now if only I didn't have to
> use those 'new driver' plates for the next year ... 

Are you talking about the "aoba mark" that new drivers are supposed to 
put on their cars? I thought you were exempted from that if you switched 
over from a foreign license. Check on the back of your new Japanese 
license. There should be a notation to that effect.

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Scott Reynolds                                      sar@gol.com