Private Pilots License/IMC and PPL Theory

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Beags,

So how on earth do you think that anyone 'can have an IMC issued, it will just go in a separate bit of paper and not on your licence'?

Simply by reading your own quotation from LASORS (and for the sake of argument, assuming both LASORS and your quotation to be an accurate reflection of the ANO)

You want an IMC Rating - you need a CAA-issued licence

Please read the bit you quoted, specifically the first paragraph and note how that differs from the first sentence in the second paragraph.

Alternatively, you know the number. Call and (if you manage to get through) ask.