A Guide on Totting Up

There is a trick with every motoring offence. You may get away from
the offence by paying heavy penalty, or even dealing thematter at
courts, but you would carry certain penalty points.
What is Totting up ?

This is a procedure that is mostly enforced when a driver reaches a
whopping 12 penalty points within a period of three calendar years.
Mostly Careless driving leads to penalties and as a result penalty
points are added into the account. It is not that a single incident
may result in acquiring only a single penalty point. It is the type of
fault will result in the amount of points the defaulter is acquiring.
Either different incidents may result in acquiring PPs or one single
act of carelessness can result in acquiring 12 PPs. The court provides
its decision according to number of penalty points. In most cases, the
court will impose a disqualification notice for a period of minimum
six months. During this period, the accused personal will never be
able to perform the act of driving in a legal way. In fact, the
license will be seized for this period of time.
Likewise, if the defaulter is having9 PPs, and again that individual
commits a motoring offence that can be resolved through a normalFPN,
the individual cannot accept the notice. It is because, once the
notice is accepted, the penalty points will get increased to 12. As
totting up banning procedure canbe imposed only through court hearing
procedure, therefore such offences can be dealt through issuing of
Summons.
If your license is seized for the particular period of days, then you
will not be able to drive any sort of motor vehicles within that
prescribed period. Once the period of banning gets over, the entire
penalty points are removedand you can start your driving without any
past constraints