Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:40am
Interesting reply, I understood that you could drive in the UK on an EU licence until the EU licence expired, not until you are 70. Also can you provide the provenance for the statement:- "After 70, you can only drive for 12 months in the UK unless you are a UK resident!" I ask as I am over 70 with a Spanish licence converted from a UK one, and your statement contradicts this :-
"The phrase 'Until you are 70 or have lived in GB for three years, whichever is longer', means that you can drive in the UK any vehicle covered by the categories shown on your valid EU/EEA licence until you are 70. The three-year element relates to someone who came to live in the UK at say the age of 68, they could drive until they were 71 on their EU licence because it is the longer of the two periods i.e. 70 or for three years, whichever is longer."
There are other contradictions out there so it is not as cut and dried as you suggest, perhaps.