1 – Please note: This agreement is made directly between your driving instructor and yourself, and is effective from the day you book in.
2 – Payment for all lessons is always on the day or 72hrs in advance if it is your first lesson booking.
3 – If payment not made 72hrs before your first lesson, your lesson will be cancelled.
4 – Payment can be made by cash, cheque or via bank transfer directly to the driving school or your instructor.
5 – Bank transfer method must be agreed with the instructor and made 24 hours prior to the booked lesson.
6 – Payments for block booking courses of lessons are payable in full.
7 – All learners should be punctual for their driving lessons. In the event of a learner not turning up, your instructor will normally wait for 15 minutes, before abandoning the lesson, the lesson fee being forfeited or becoming due for payment. In the event of an instructor being late due to unforeseen circumstances, every effort will be made to contact the pupil. Any time lost will be made up by the instructor, either at the end of the lesson or on another occasion.
8 – Gears Driving school reserves the right to terminate a lesson in the event a learner may be unfit to drive, either through drink, abusive behaviour, drugs, or any medication they may be taking, the full lesson fee becoming payable in such an eventuality
9 – Gears Driving school reserves the right to withhold use of a car for the UK Practical Driving Test, if in the opinion of the instructor, the learner is not up to the standard required to take the test.
10 – In the event of the Driving Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) Cancelling the driving practical test no refund will be given for the pre-test lessons and the hire of the driving school vehicle – Any Claim must be made direct to the DVSA
11 – Gears Driving school requires 48 hours notice of postponement, or cancellation, of a lesson, failing to do so full lesson fee will become payable.
12 – All driving instructors are self employed and all contracts payments for provision of driving tuition are between the pupil and the instructor.
13 – Gears Driving school reserves the right to postpone lessons if your instructor considers that the weather, or the road conditions are dangerous or otherwise not suitable for training.
14 – If you would like to have a refund on a block booking package, all lessons taken would be charged at full lessons rate per hour and anything outstanding would be refunded back.
