Address Changes and the Owner's Duties

Fourteen days to report a move

When the holder of a licence to drive changes their place of residence permanently, they must within 14 days notify the registering authority for the area in which they now ordinarily live, giving the new residential and postal address.

This is not a formality. Notices of infringement, summonses and licence renewal reminders all go to the address on record, and not receiving one is no defence.

You may not let an unlicensed person drive

No person who is the owner or operator of a motor vehicle, or who is in charge or control of it, may employ or permit anyone else to drive it on a public road unless that person is licensed to drive that vehicle.

Handing your keys to a friend who has no licence makes you a party to the offence, not a bystander.

The owner answers for the vehicle

The manual states it without qualification: the owner of a vehicle is also responsible for all offences committed with that vehicle on a public road, if the owner permitted its use.

So a fine incurred by somebody else driving your car with your blessing is still your problem. If you lend a vehicle, you take on what is done with it.