Thread: Why the FSA advice against using FAL as ID

Originally Posted by Finnwolf

Pubs don’t (didn’t?) accept them as ID, only accepting 18+, drivers license and passport as ID.

The irony here is when I was dealing with the AML/CFT act (replaced the old Financial transactions act), Passport and FAL were able to be accepted as a single form of ID as they were issued by the Govt after a background check that verified the holder was who they said they were. To accept a Driver license, 18+ card etc as ID, we had to have a secondary form of ID as none of those were checked to ensure they were who they said they were.....

In saying that it was mostly Passports and DL + credit cards that were used...almost never saw a FAL used