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Violation catalogue

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.

What the law does not say

Three unusual shapes are filed here

One row states a single fine and a single point count, but its impound cell carries the same period under two different triggering conditions — one for the expired driving licence, one for a vehicle whose own registration has been expired past the threshold the article names. Whether that is one rule restated for each sub-part or a genuine coincidence of two identical periods is not resolved by the corpus, and is not resolved here. A second row prices three lettered sub-parts at one shared amount with no split of any kind — lettered sub-parts do not by themselves mean more than one figure. And two rows are not fixed amounts at all but a daily rate with a ceiling, charged for failing to collect a vehicle after its impound period has legally ended; they are a different rule from the impound release payment despite sharing the same ceiling figure.

The full table

Every description here is our own English gloss

The federal schedule is written in Arabic, and this site does not publish an official or certified translation of it. The description column is our own plain-terms gloss of what each row covers, marked as one on every row; 16 of 122 of them are the wording the rate payload itself carries and the rest are written for this site. The figures beside them — the fine, the black points, the impound period — are the language-independent facts, and they are what the citation under this table is a citation to. Where a gloss and your notice disagree, the notice is the document that binds.

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Licence and document fines
RowFineWhat the row coversPointsImpound / suspensionSeverity
4AED 3,000in plain terms — driving without number plates2390 daysFine and impoundGrade III
10AED 1,000in plain terms — heavy vehicles entering roads/places where prohibited4not statedFine and pointsGrade II
13AED 1,500in plain terms — operating industrial/construction vehicles, tractors, mechanical equipment without a licensing-authority permitnot statednot statedFine onlyGrade I
22AED 500in plain terms — (a) driving an uninsured vehicle (b) driving a vehicle not licensed by the Licensing Authority47 daysFine and impoundGrade III
23AED 400in plain terms — driving on a foreign-issued driving licence outside permitted casesnot statednot statedFine onlyGrade I
24AED 400in plain terms — driving contrary to the licence granted12not statedFine and pointsGrade II
25AED 500in plain terms — (a) driving on an expired driving licence (b) driving a vehicle whose own registration has expired.47 daysFine and impoundGrade III
27AED 400in plain terms — (a) vehicle with a single number plate (b) unclear/illegible plate numbersnot statednot statedFine onlyGrade I
75AED 300in plain terms — using the vehicle for a purpose other than the one it is licensed for4not statedFine and pointsGrade II
76AED 3,000in plain terms — using the vehicle to transport passengers without a licence2430 daysFine and impoundGrade III
77AED 3,000in plain terms — using the vehicle to transport dangerous/flammable materials without a licence2460 daysFine and impoundGrade III
78AED 1,000in plain terms — transporting passengers in a vehicle not designated for passenger transport4not statedFine and pointsGrade II
79AED 500in plain terms — transporting passengers in a designated vehicle beyond the permitted count47 daysFine and impoundGrade III
85AED 400in plain terms — (a) not inspecting the vehicle after a major engine modification (b) not inspecting after a structural modificationnot statednot statedFine onlyGrade I
90AED 500in plain terms — school-bus driver not opening the stop sign / not following traffic instructions6not statedFine and pointsGrade II
94AED 500in plain terms — vehicles driving in convoys without a permit or outside permitted conditions415 daysFine and impoundGrade III
95AED 800in plain terms — making changes to the vehicle's color without a licencenot statednot statedFine onlyGrade I
103AED 500in plain terms — violating the rules for using commercial number platesnot stated7 daysFine and impoundGrade III
106AED 400in plain terms — (a) not carrying vehicle ownership (b) not carrying the driving licencenot statednot statedFine onlyGrade I
107AED 400in plain terms — using training vehicles outside times/places set by the Licensing Authoritynot statednot statedFine onlyGrade I
108AED 500in plain terms — three lettered sub-parts — (a) driving instruction with a training vehicle carrying no training plate; (b) driving instruction with a vehicle not designated for training, without Licensing Authority permission; (c) driving instruction without a permit from the Licensing Authority at all — priced at ONE shared 500 AED figure.not statednot statedFine onlyGrade I
109AED 300in plain terms — not carrying the training permit during trainingnot statednot statedFine onlyGrade I
110AED 1,000in plain terms — not surrendering the licence on reaching the cumulative limit, 1st precedentnot statednot statedFine onlyGrade I
111AED 2,000in plain terms — not surrendering the licence on reaching the cumulative limit, 2nd precedentnot statednot statedFine onlyGrade I
112AED 3,000in plain terms — not surrendering the licence on reaching the cumulative limit, 3rd precedentnot statednot statedFine onlyGrade I
113AED 50 per day, up to AED 3,000in plain terms — not collecting the light vehicle after the legally prescribed impound period has ended.lightnot statednot statedFine onlyGrade I
114AED 100 per day, up to AED 3,000in plain terms — the same failure to collect, for a heavy vehicle.heavynot statednot statedFine onlyGrade I

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

Background

The rows that penalise paperwork

A document offence is often treated as the trivial end of the schedule and it is not. The federal resolution provides for the impound of a vehicle whose registration has been expired longer than the threshold it names, if it is caught on the road, and it is not returned until the outstanding dues are settled and the registration is renewed. That impound has no scheduled day count: it lasts until the owner acts. This site marks such a period as open-ended rather than inventing a figure for it.

The decree-law adds a criminal layer above these rows for the more serious document failures — driving under a licence that has been suspended by order, driving without a valid licence or on a foreign one not recognised in the State, each with its own fine band and, on repetition, a heavier one. Those are court matters with their own instrument, sitting above the administrative row rather than replacing it.

The release condition in the executive regulation held over from the previous law is broader still: an impounded vehicle is released only once the cause of the impound has ceased and all fees, fines and impound-related expenses are paid. This site names that instrument’s own limit — its current text was not re-proved here on values the way the traffic-control resolution’s was — rather than presenting the condition as beyond doubt.

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Impound release cost calculator

A vehicle under impound can be released by paying a daily amount, up to a ceiling. What that ceiling applies to is genuinely unresolved in the article's own wording, so this tool computes both readings side by side and does not pick one.

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Where these figures stand

Draft for review. Every figure on this site is transcribed from a named primary instrument and carries its citation, but none has been signed off by a reviewer of record yet — and a very recent amendment may not be reflected. Where the law itself is unresolved, this site says so rather than choosing an answer. The binding amount is the one on your own notice.

Every figure carries its instrument, its article or annex row, and its effective period.