Driving instructor suspension: your rights
Compensation if you stay on the register
You can get compensation if your approved driving instructor (ADI) registration was suspended, but you were not taken off the ADI register.
This includes cases where:
- you win an appeal against the decision to take you off the register
- the registrar considers taking you off the register, but then ends the suspension and lets you stay on the register
- the registrar has not made a decision about taking you off the register within 75 days
What you can claim
You can claim compensation for income and non-income losses as a result of being suspended.
You can also claim for the cost of preparing your compensation application.
Income losses
‘Income losses’ are what you’d have got from giving driving lessons during the time you were suspended.
Non-income losses
‘Non-income losses’ are other losses you:
- can give a monetary value to
- incurred (within reason) while you were suspended
Examples of non-income losses include:
- any reasonable costs you needed to pay to prepare your compensation application
- the interest on a loan you had to take out as a result of the suspension
- the value of any damage that the suspension caused to your driving school business if you run one