Take doubts about the functioning of the new card by points – publico

 
         

                 

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
 

1. With the introduction of the new system have to replace the letter?

No. The new letter points system implies no replacement documents. Points are subtracted and added by computer and can be found in the Portal Offences Road (https://portalcontraordenacoes.ansr.pt/), where you will have to register.

2. The offenses committed before June 1 can take points?

No. Any traffic offense committed prior to entry into force of this system, even if processed after June 1, will be punished under the previous regime. This means that if you already have, for example, two very serious offenses and make the third loses the letter, despite already being in force the system of letter for points. For some time the previous system and the system of points of the letter will coexist, independent of one another. That is, if practiced the same offense very serious on 1 June, the letter would no longer be revoked, would lose only points, which would be discounted to 12 points awarded to all drivers on 1 June.

3. When they draw me the points of the letter?

The points are only taken on the date on which the final decision of the National Road Safety Authority becomes final or when there is a decision of the courts, no chance of appeal.

4. I miss the letter at once to practice multiple concurrent offenses?

You can. In principle if a driver practice various serious offenses and very serious on the same day, are taken up to six points. However, this rule has exceptions. Driving under the influence of alcohol or under the influence of psychotropic substances accumulate with other offenses. Thus, for example, if a person is caught driving at 140 km / h on a road on which the limit is 90 km / h (five points), it furthermore has not safe the vehicle (two points) and present 1.3g / l of alcohol in blood (less than six points) loses letter once. If only commit the first two offenses are discounted only six (not seven) points.

5. How do I earn points?

At the end of each period of three years without being charged offenses serious or very serious or crimes road nature, three points are awarded to the driver, not can win more than 15 points. The three years have is from the day on which the offense sanction has become final and not from the offense date itself. In addition, drivers can earn a point in each period of revalidation of the letter – to 30, 40, 50, 60, 65 and 70 and thereafter every two years for those who now take the letter – attend voluntarily a road safety training course. This, since that time, have not committed crimes road.

6. What happens to a driver who is without points?

It is without a driving license. It ordered the revocation of a driving title, in a separate process. From the moment that the card is reversed, the driver is prevented from getting new title for two years. After this period you can take the letter again.

7. When do I have to attend a training session?

Since it reaches five points or less will be required to attend a training course of 16 hours, at your expense. Three modules (a six-hour and two of five) that have to be attended within 180 days, roughly six months from the time the driver is notified by the National Authority for Road Safety which struck five or fewer points. Based on this notification, the offender has only ten days to enroll in training and 180 to complete it. If you do not, the license is revoked it. The price of this training is not yet determined.

8. When do I have to make a new test?

When the driver reaches the three points or less will be required to conduct a theoretical test. You have a period of 90 days to carry out the examination of the notification that reached this level of points. The Institute for Mobility and Transport (IMT) is notifying the driver of the day, time and place of the event and how you can pay it (price not yet known). The examination will be done in a multimedia interactive application in the IMT centers, will last 25 minutes and the driver will only be approved if correctly answer 17 of 20 questions put to it. The failure or non-performance of the test in 90 days also leads to a loss of the driving license. The theoretical exam focuses on topics such as road safety, traffic accidents, risky behaviors in driving and the perception of risk.