Road code for Drivers
Steadybears
19th June 2008, 09:37 PM
Our son has passed his first part of his learners license and now not needing the code book - kindly given to us by other forum members - so we have a it available and would like to pass it on to the next person - anyone needing it I will put it in the post.
Thank goodness I wont be needing it when the law changes in Sept and will just be able to change my SA license.:raebanana:raebanana
xanctus
20th June 2008, 03:07 PM
What's going to happen in September in road code?
BaldyBeardyBloke
20th June 2008, 03:17 PM
From September drivers from countries deemed to have similar road rules will not be required to pass a theory test in NZ to gain a drivers licence here, as long as they have a full licence from their original country. They can just convert their licence to an NZ one (for a fee of course)
The list of countries is available online (can't remember where, there is a link on the forum somewhere but UK, US, SA etc all on there)
M-Squared
20th June 2008, 10:28 PM
Oooooh that sounds interesting! :D We have until October to get ours. Just need that list of countries now. ;) Do you still have to have a full licence for 2+ years?
IanW99
20th June 2008, 11:16 PM
Oooooh that sounds interesting! :D We have until October to get ours. Just need that list of countries now. ;) Do you still have to have a full licence for 2+ years?
Yes you do still need to have passed your overseas license for 2+ years.
And here is the list of countries:-
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Luxembourg
Norway
Portugal
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
The Netherlands
United Kingdom
United States of America
Ian
M-Squared
21st June 2008, 01:02 AM
Yay! I can just find my French licence and I'm set then. :D :D :D Hubby will still have to take the test though, he never got his French licence :p
Thank you very much for that information!
vijith
21st July 2008, 09:03 PM
hmm ... so india is not in the list ......
mylesdw
22nd July 2008, 10:44 AM
Seems crazy, this is clearly to do with politics rather than safety. The UK rules are probably closest to the NZ road code but there are still very important differences that can get you fined or killed. How they can consider that US or Greek rules are similar escapes me.
Kim39
22nd July 2008, 08:24 PM
Greek rules are similar escapes me.
Bang on:yes:yes having driven in that country i found that you took your life in your own hands, as they are totally crazy.
Kim
