SSR registration fee increase

I wonder if the thousands of boats who never venture more than 12 miles offshore will consider not re-registering next time renewal arrives.
 
Alas, in an up to date web browser you can no longer even access the SSR registration website, as their SSL certificate issuer had its trust revoked (in non-nerd: the government bought internet certificates from a dodgy company and is still using them).

Quiddle said:
And you don't get a laminated certificate any more. 250% price increase in a decade.
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What do you get now? A PDF to print yourself like the Ofcom license?
 
Crisby said:
Yep, just had ours done a few weeks ago and that is exactly what you get!
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So does it come by email as pdf?
Only asking because I've just sent my renewal in and I don't think there was a box to fill my email address in so how will I get mine?
 
RichardS said:
The SSR certificate comes in the post as a hard paper copy. Got mine last week and immediately laminated it myself. :)

Richard
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Be careful with lamination. We recently had something arrive and it specifically said NOT to laminate it as that would invalidate it (the document was to do with citizenship). I also notice that my ICC has a holographic security mark, which lamination might well damage or even destroy. Not saying that's the case with the SSR, but laminating official certificates should be preceded by enquiry as to whether the document may be laminated.

I suspect the DVLA might have something to say about a laminated paper part of your driving licence if it needed points adding! :rolleyes:
 
AntarcticPilot said:
Be careful with lamination. We recently had something arrive and it specifically said NOT to laminate it as that would invalidate it (the document was to do with citizenship). I also notice that my ICC has a holographic security mark, which lamination might well damage or even destroy. Not saying that's the case with the SSR, but laminating official certificates should be preceded by enquiry as to whether the document may be laminated.

I suspect the DVLA might have something to say about a laminated paper part of your driving licence if it needed points adding! :rolleyes:
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Paper counterpart to the driving licence was scrapped about 18 months/2 years ago.
 
duncan99210 said:
Paper counterpart to the driving licence was scrapped about 18 months/2 years ago.
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I didn't know that, and am sure I've been asked for it since its abolition, which you are quite right about.

It doesn't alter my point that lamination of some official documents may actually invalidate them. The one I was specifically warned about by the issuer was in connection with my wife's citizenship, so it was actually pretty important!
 
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Sandy said:
Thankfully, some of us still have a proper paper driving licence. :D
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Way back in 1987, when paper licences were still current, I hired a car in New Mexico, in the USA. After they'd looked at my tatty bit of paper and turned it every which-way, they finally asked me where I was from. It took quite a while to get through to them that I am British - I did, perhaps, make things difficult for myself by not saying "English" - but as far as I'm concerned, I'm a citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. After that, I'm Yorkshire - England doesn't figure in my identity at all. But I was biting my tongue when they asked "Where's that? South Africa?

Perhaps the fact that it was "Rent-a-Wreck" that we were dealing with had something to do with it - I'm sure the usual airport companies would have been fine with it.
 
Yngmar said:
Alas, in an up to date web browser you can no longer even access the SSR registration website, as their SSL certificate issuer had its trust revoked (in non-nerd: the government bought internet certificates from a dodgy company and is still using them).

So How do you renew?



What do you get now? A PDF to print yourself like the Ofcom license?
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