Legal
Terms of use
What you can and cannot take from this site, stated plainly — including the difference between a schedule figure and a court-determined one.
This site describes how traffic penalties work in the United Arab Emirates. It is not legal advice, it is not a substitute for advice about your own case, and no page on it predicts what any authority or court will decide.
What this site is
A free, independent reference. It carries no advertising, sells nothing, takes no payments and asks for no identifiers. Using it creates no relationship between you and the publisher.
Where it applies
The violation schedule, the black-point system and the impound rules described here are FEDERAL and apply across the Emirates. What differs locally is administrative — the issuing authority, the payment channel, and any discount round announced by an emirate. Where a page covers that local layer it says so.
What the figures on this site are
Most of them are fixed amounts set by a schedule, and they are stated as such, with the row they come from.
Some are not, and the difference matters. Four schedule rows price the fine as court-determined — there is no amount in the instrument, and this site prints that fact rather than a number. The criminal provisions state a range a court decides within, not a tariff. Neither is a prediction of what will be imposed in your case.
Where the law is unresolved
On a small number of questions the instruments genuinely do not settle the answer — most visibly, what the impound ceiling applies to. Where that is so, this site prints both readings and says that neither is chosen. It does not present one of them as the answer, and you should not treat it as one.
Accuracy, and its limits
Every figure here is traceable to the instrument named beneath it. Law changes, and a page that was right when it was written can go out of date. If you find something wrong, please say so; corrections are genuinely welcome.
What has not happened is the last step: this site’s figures have not been signed off by a reviewer of record. That is stated in the notice on every page rather than hidden, and it is a statement about the figures. The binding amount is the one on the notice you were issued.
Liability
This site is provided as it is. To the extent the law allows, the publisher is not liable for a decision you take on the basis of it. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
Changes
These terms were last reviewed in August 2026.
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