Terms and conditions

Your instructor is a self-employed franchisee (Your Instructor) of Automobile Association Developments Limited (the AA Driving School).

The contract for driving tuition is solely between you and your instructor. You and your instructor are responsible for agreeing all matters relating to the timing, location and duration of individual lessons.

You must notify your instructor of any matters which affect your ability or entitlement to have driving tuition, for example, but not limited to, any lack, or loss, of a valid provisional driving licence.

AA The Driving School Agency Limited acts as agent for your instructor in receiving Your payments for driving tuition, other than payments made directly by you to your instructor. Where AA Driving School and/or AA The Driving School Agency Limited makes bookings with, or supplies any information or documentation to you, or processes any payments for your lessons, they act as the agent of your instructor.

If you or your instructor wish to cancel a lesson a minimum of 48 hours prior notice should be given. Cancellations must be made directly between you and your instructor.

If you do not give at least 48 hours notice of cancellation, your instructor will be entitled to charge for the lesson(s) concerned.

You must pay for tuition in advance by using one of the following methods:

– payment by credit or debit card online at
www.theaa.com/driving-school

– payment by credit or debit card by calling the AA Driving School on 0800 587 0087

– payment by cash, cheque or credit/debit card direct to your instructor. (Any cheques must be made payable to your instructor. Your instructor will confirm whether or not they are able to take payments via credit or debit card.)

AA Driving School has no responsibility or liability to you for payments made by other means, and further if you do pay your instructor directly by cash, cheque or card payment, You should obtain a receipt. AA Driving School accepts no responsibility for any payments made direct to instructors.

The price of lessons which have not been prepaid as part of a block booking may be changed at any time. You will always receive prior notice of such changes.

The cost of prepaid tuition is based on the lesson price in force at time of booking, and will be honoured for 12 months thereafter irrespective of any price increase that may occur between the date of booking and when the lessons are taken. Any unused lessons remaining after 12 months have elapsed shall have any lesson price increase applied.

You cannot sell or transfer lessons which have been purchased in your name to any other person without consent.

Your instructor, AA Driving School and/or AA The Driving School Agency Limited are not liable to you for any loss or damage caused where, and to the extent that:

– there is no breach of a legal duty owed to you by the relevant person or body

– such loss or damage is not a reasonably foreseeable result of such a breach

any such loss or damage, or increase in the same, results from any breach or omission by you

– any such loss or damage results from circumstances or matters outside of the reasonable control of the relevant person or body

Your instructor, AA Driving School and/or AA The Driving School Agency Limited shall not, in any event, be liable for losses relating to any business interests you may have including, without limitation, lost profits, loss of opportunity or business or business interruption.

You are reminded that neither AA Driving School and/or AA The Driving School Agency Limited are parties to the contract for driving tuition itself, which is between you and your instructor. This does not affect any liability that AA Driving School and/or AA The Driving School Agency Limited may have for any loss or damage you may incur which is caused directly as a result of any breach (including negligence) by it or them of any legal duty owed by it or them to you.

Nothing in these terms and conditions will affect any statutory rights you may have as a consumer.

These terms and conditions are governed by the laws of England and Wales.