Violation catalogue
Alcohol and drugs at the wheel
This is reference content, not a calculator, and deliberately so: the schedule rows price the fine as court-determined and the decree-law states a range with court discretion. There is no formula to compute and no blood-alcohol threshold in the corpus to compute against.
What the law does not say
There is no numeric blood-alcohol limit to calculate against
No blood-alcohol or breath-alcohol threshold appears anywhere in the four instrument corpora searched for this site. The payload behind these pages carries no such schedule at all, and that omission is deliberate rather than pending: a threshold table would be scaffolding around a number the corpus does not contain.
Alcohol at the wheel is priced on two tracks instead. Administratively, through a schedule row whose fine the annex states as court-determined. Criminally, through the decree-law article that sets a fine range with court discretion and a suspension that escalates by offence count. Neither track produces a single number a calculator could return, which is why this site builds no blood-alcohol tool and does not imply one could exist.
Federal Decree-Law 14/2024 art. 35(1)
مرسوم بقانون اتحادي بشأن تنظيم السير والمرور
الغرامة التي لا تقل عن (20,000) عشرين ألف درهم
The full table
The administrative track: the schedule rows
These are the annex rows. The fine column reads court-determined because that is what the schedule says — a finding, not a missing figure.
Every description here is our own English gloss
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| Row | Fine | What the row covers | Points | Impound / suspension | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | court-determined | in plain terms — driving under the influence of alcohol. | 23 | 60 days | Top of the ladderGrade IV |
| 3 | court-determined | in plain terms — driving under the influence of narcotic/psychotropic substances. | not stated | 60 days · 12 months licence hold | Top of the ladderGrade IV |
MR 178/2017 issue 613, 30 Mar 2017, annex pp.6-18, consolidated to 02 May 2023 · in force 2023-05-02 — 2027-08-07
The numbers
The criminal track: a corridor, decided by a court
A separate instrument prices the same conduct criminally: a fine range per substance, and a licence consequence that escalates by offence count. Imprisonment sits alongside both at the court's discretion, with no stated term to print.
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| Substance | Offence | Fine range | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alcohol | 1 | AED 20,000 – AED 100,000 | 3 months suspension |
| Alcohol | 2 | AED 20,000 – AED 100,000 | 6 months suspension |
| Alcohol | 3 | AED 20,000 – AED 100,000 | Cancelled |
| Drugs | 1 | AED 30,000 – AED 200,000 | 6 months suspension |
| Drugs | 2 | AED 30,000 – AED 200,000 | 12 months suspension |
| Drugs | 3 | AED 30,000 – AED 200,000 | Cancelled |
Imprisonment is stated; its length is not
Unresolved
Two suspension regimes, and no stated order between them
Whether Decree-Law 14/2024 art. 35's criminal-court suspension (staged 1st/2nd/3rd by offence count) and MR 178 art. 5's administrative one-year hold (keyed to sentence end, no staging of its own) run concurrently, sequentially, or independently for the same drug-offence driver is not derivable from this corpus — both are potentially applicable to the same person.
MR 178/2017 art. 5
قرار وزاري بشأن قواعد وإجراءات الضبط المروري
يتم حجز رخصة القيادة الخاصة به ووقف العمل بها لمدة سنة تبدأ من تاريخ إنتهاء تنفيذ العقوبة
What the law does not say
4 schedule rows state no fine amount at all
This row prices the fine as "تقررها المحكمة" (court-determined) — not a number stated in the annex. It is never treated as a zero.
On this site those rows read "court-determined". They are not blanks waiting to be filled in and they are not zero: the annex prices them by referring the amount to a court, and that is the fact the row carries.
MR 178/2017 annex row 2 — annex row 2
الجدول المرفق
Next step
Black points in the UAE
The points are the part of a violation notice that compounds. This page sets out the cumulative limit, the window it is measured over, the two clocks that decide when points count and when they are deleted, and what happens each time the limit is reached.
Related violations
Dangerous driving fines
The largest single group in the schedule, and the one where the impound and black-point columns do most of the work. Every row here is shown with all three consequences together.
Speeding fines
The schedule prices speeding in bands of excess over the posted limit. This is that ladder, in full, with the consequences the annex states for each rung and the rows that state them.
Licence and document fines
The rows that penalise paperwork rather than driving. Several of them carry an impound period that is open-ended rather than a fixed number of days, and those are marked as such rather than given an invented figure.
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