"S Green" wrote in message
What happens is that if you have an old brown licence Pre 1994 and tell the
CAA you have moved or got a new rating, then you get a nice new white paper
bundle and the licence number is different based on the old medical
reference.

It sort of creeps up on you.

ok, I understand now. I religiously refrained from doing anything
that might modify my British PPL(A) -- such as adding ratings which
I believe I could have done -- just worrying about something like that
(and the fact that the CAA requires you to send your original logbook(s)
-- copies won't do, even notarized -- and license over to them in order
to do anything); moving however never was a problem (did it a couple of
times); I will probably apply for a JAR license by exchanging
my good ol' PPL(A) eventually (as soon as I no longer have any dependency
upon it; digressing again, the weird thing is that the only dependency
left is my glider rating even though there was no such thing in UK at the
time, but that's a different story altogether :-)))

--Sylvain