UAE Traffic Fines and Black Points: How to Check, Pay, and Keep Your Licence

Every renewal in this country — licence, registration, a sale, a transfer — begins with the same question: are the fines paid? Fines are the one part of motoring in the UAE that follows you across every transaction, and black points are the part that can take the licence away. This guide covers where to check, how to pay, how the points system works, and what changed with the federal traffic law that came into force in 2025.

Last checked against the official pages on 14 September 2026. Fine amounts and rules change; the linked page always wins over this article.

Where to check your fines

A fine is recorded against the vehicle or against the driver’s licence, in the emirate where it happened — but the systems are linked, and every emirate’s channel shows fines from all of them. The federal portal lists the official routes:

• Ministry of Interior — the MOI UAE app and website, for any emirate.
• Dubai — the Dubai Police app and website (fines inquiry and payment), and the RTA website and RTA Dubai app for vehicle fines.
• Abu Dhabi — Abu Dhabi Police e-services and TAMM.
• Sharjah, Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah, Fujairah, Umm Al Quwain — the MOI channels and each emirate’s police app.

Search by plate number, licence number or traffic file. The result shows the date, the location, the amount, the black points and — increasingly — the camera photo.

How to pay

All of the channels above take card payment online. In Dubai the fines also appear, and can be paid, inside any RTA transaction: renewing a licence or a registration lists them first and will not complete until they are settled. Paying in the app you already have open is usually the quickest route.

Dubai’s instalment scheme. Dubai Police offer a traffic-fines instalment service: the applicant pays 25% of the total up front and the remainder is spread over up to 24 months depending on the amount. It is for individuals and companies and is applied through the Dubai Police channels.

Black points: how a licence is suspended

Serious violations carry black points as well as a fine, and the points accumulate on the driver’s licence. The threshold is 24 points. Official guidance describes the consequences as:

• First time the 24-point limit is reached: the licence is suspended for three months.
• Second time: six months.
• Third time: one year, and the licence is not returned until the driver passes a course at an accredited driving school.

Points expire from the record over time, and Dubai Police offer a course that clears some of them. Renewing the licence does not clear points, and a suspended licence cannot be renewed around — see our licence renewal guide.

The federal traffic law of 2025

The UAE now applies Federal Decree-Law No. 14 of 2024 on Traffic Regulation, which came into effect on 29 March 2025. It replaced the 1995 law and its amendments, tightened the response to the most dangerous behaviour, and kept the fines and black-points schedule as the enforcement tool. The federal portal’s traffic-law page carries the current schedule; two examples from it show the scale:

• Exceeding the speed limit by more than 80 km/h: AED 3,000, 23 black points and a 60-day vehicle impound.
• Vehicle modification without approval, tinting beyond the permitted limit, expired registration and worn or unfit tyres all carry their own fines — the reason our inspection guide and modifications guide exist.

Impounds are their own bill. Some violations impound the vehicle, and Dubai Police’s schedule lists the release fees separately from the fine — exceeding the permitted tint, for instance, is listed with a AED 10,000 release fee for an impounded vehicle. A fine you can argue about; an impound costs money every day it stands.

Disputing a fine

Every emirate accepts objections through its police channels, and the camera photo attached to the record is where most disputes begin and end. File the objection through the same app that showed you the fine, within the window the emirate allows, and do not renew anything on that vehicle in the meantime — a paid fine is a closed fine.

Five habits that keep the record clean

1. Check fines monthly, not at renewal. A fine found in month one is a fine; one found in month eleven is a fine plus whatever it blocked.
2. Keep the registered phone number on your traffic file current; that is where the fine SMS goes.
3. If you sell a car, finish the transfer within the 14 days. Until then, the fines are yours.
4. Know your points balance before you renew or travel.
5. Treat an engine-management light, worn tyres and a cracked windscreen as fines waiting to be issued — they are on the schedule.

Sources

• UAE Government portal (u.ae) — Traffic fines and Pay traffic fines online: official channels per emirate.
• UAE Government portal (u.ae) — UAE traffic law: Federal Decree-Law No. 14 of 2024, in force 29 March 2025; the fines and black-points schedule; the 24-point suspension.
• Ministry of Interior — Federal traffic law announcement and the MOI traffic e-services.
• Dubai Police — Fines inquiry and payment, Black points and traffic violations, and the traffic-fines instalment service (25% down, up to 24 months).
• RTA Dubai — Pay Vehicle Fines.

PartMate sells parts and accessories. This article summarises public government information for convenience; it is not legal advice, and the schedule of fines is the authorities’ to change.