Driving endorsement codes and penalty points

Enter each code, the offence date and the points DVLA recorded. The calculator adds only the points that still count today. The statutory test in section 29 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 compares offence dates. Points still count on the third anniversary of the offence and stop counting after that date. Reaching 12 current points is a totting risk. A first test pass date is optional: inside 2 years of that pass, 6 points revokes the licence.

TT99 is not a points award. It records that a totting disqualification was imposed. Put 0 points against it. Most other codes on the table carry a published range, for example SP30 at 3 to 6 and IN10 at 6 to 8. Use the number on your record, not the top of the range, unless that is what was imposed.

The table below the calculator lists every current DVLA code. Thirteen of those codes have their own page on this site, because they are the ones people search. The others are still real codes. They still count. They just share this hub instead of a dedicated URL.

Because two clocks run on the same code. A typical speeding endorsement stays on the driving record for 4 years from the offence. It only counts towards the 12 point total for the first 3 of those years. In the fourth year it is visible but spent for totting. Drink and drug driving codes stay 11 years from conviction and remain valid for the first 10.

Insurers and employers do not use the totting clock. They ask about unspent convictions, or they run a licence check and see what is still printed. The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act guidance says a road traffic endorsement may become spent after 5 years for an adult, or 2 years 6 months if you were under 18, but another sentence can make the period longer. The 4 year DVLA box is not a universal declaration period.

DVLA will write and ask for the photocard in some cases: a new driver revocation, a court ban where the licence was not handed in, an invalid licence at court, or an address change. GOV.UK says the fine for not sending it when asked can be up to £1,000. For an ordinary fixed penalty you do not post the licence in. You give name, date of birth and licence number.

At 12 current points the court must disqualify for at least 6 months unless it is satisfied there are grounds to mitigate. Section 35 says the court cannot treat hardship as enough unless it is exceptional hardship, and cannot reuse circumstances already used to avoid or shorten a totting ban in the previous 3 years. A second totting disqualification inside 3 years is at least 12 months. A third is at least 2 years. TT99 then sits on the record for 4 years from that conviction.

A new driver is a different statute. Inside 2 years of the first pass, 6 points cancels the licence. You apply and pay for a provisional and pass both tests again. Points that were still live on the provisional count towards the 6. Passing a lorry test does not restart the 2. The rules also apply if you exchanged a foreign licence and then passed a further test in Great Britain.

A driver on £500 a week who is toted up is not sentenced off a fine band for the totting itself. The totting is the ban. The original offences still have their own fines. Do not add a made-up totting fine on top.

Answer the insurer's questions about unspent convictions. A road traffic endorsement may become spent after 5 years for an adult or 2 years 6 months if you were under 18, but another sentence can make the period longer. That is the Ministry of Justice guidance linked from these pages. The time a code remains on the licence is not a universal insurance declaration period.

No official source publishes a premium change by code, so every code page on this site shows 'not published' for a percentage. The Highway Code says insurance costs are likely to rise considerably after conviction for a serious driving offence. Drink, drugs, failing to stop and no insurance sit in that conversation. A 3 point SP30 is still an endorsement you must not hide if you are asked.

Employers who require a driving licence will see the same record. Some roles need a clean licence as a condition of the job. A hire company will too. Lying on a proposal is a separate insurance problem from the original code.

The DVLA table on this page is the Great Britain record. The codes, the points ranges and the 4 or 11 year stays are what DVLA publishes. A Scottish court still puts a GB licence into that table. Northern Ireland uses DVA. The idea of a code plus points plus a stay is the same family. The office that prints it is different.

The Sentencing Council fine bands used on the driving offence calculators are England and Wales only. Do not read a Band C starting fine onto a Scottish complaint. Do read the points: a Scottish SP30 still counts towards ${tot} on a GB licence and still revokes a new driver at ${newPts}.

A disqualification on a Great Britain licence stops you driving in Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man. GOV.UK says so. Getting the licence back after a ban is a DVLA process in Great Britain and a DVA process in Northern Ireland.

The first myth is that points drop off at 3 years for every purpose. They stop counting for totting after the third anniversary. They can still print on the record for a fourth year. The second is that TT99 adds more points. It does not. The third is that a new driver has a 12 point limit like everyone else. They have a 6 point limit for revocation, and they still have the 12 point totting limit if they somehow stay licensed.

People also mix CU80's 3 to 6 range with the current 6 point phone fixed penalty, mix DR10's 3 to 11 range with an obligatory ban that does not use points in the ordinary drink guideline, and mix a PCN with an endorsement. A penalty charge notice is not a code. SP30 is.

Ignoring a notice because you 'will take a course' only works where a course is offered and completed. A course that avoids points never creates the code. A course you fail or skip leaves the points in play. Read the notice in your hand.