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If you commit certain traffic offences you may be given the opportunity to pay a fixed penalty and be issued with a ticket. If you do not accept the ticket you will be reported and a summons to court will follow.

The penalties are issued in conjunction with or without penalty points according to the following criteria:
Speeding: by 25 to 50 percent: Min points 2, max 4
by 50 percent or more: Min 3, max. 6

A fine of 3,00 Cyprus pounds per Km/h above the limit.

Causing death through dangerous driving: Min 5, max. 10

Hit and run: min 5, max. 10
The fine will be determined by the court

Thoughtless or dangerous driving: Min 3, max. 6
The fine will be determined by the court

Careless driving: min 2, max. 4
The fine will be determined by the court

Driving under the influence of alcohol: Min 3, max. 6
The fine will be determined by the court

Ignoring traffic lights: min 2, max. 4
A fine of 50 Cyprus pounds

Motorcyclists without helmets: min 1, max. 2 in built-up areas, min 2, max. 4 out of town or rural and suburban
A fine of 50 Cyprus pounds

Not wearing seat belt: Min 2, max. 4
A fine of 50 Cyprus pounds

Traffic police are obliged to impose the minimum penalty in each case except when serious offences are committed and the driver will be required to attend a court hearing.

In the transitional period from fine only offences to fine and endorsement there will be a fixed penalty for the following offences:

Using a mobile telephone whilst driving a vehicle
A fine of 50 Cyprus pounds

Eating or drinking whilst driving a vehicle
A fine of 50 Cyprus pounds

Penalty points will expire three years after the offence was committed.

The courts will have the power to disqualify drivers from driving when they have 12 points on their licence.

When a ban is finished the offender will be able to drive again, although the points received will remain on his licence for 3 years.

In the case of a foreign licence holder (e.g. a tourist) the courts can fine or imprison the offending driver.

New drivers:

A bill has been approved by the Cabinet that means drivers with less than two years’ experience
will get double penalty points for any offences committed.

Those who are caught contravening road traffic law will be required to pay the fine for non-endorsable offences at:

Traffic Police Base,
Neofytou Nikolaidou
Paphos

Tel: 26-953 512
Traffic Police base in Paphos
 
endorsable offences at:

The Department of Transport
Mesogi Industrial Estate.
Off Paphos to Polis road.

Department of Transport, Paphos, Cyprus
 
New licences have a section that indicates penalty points. A new licence with this section on it will be issued to offenders with the appropriate number of points endorsed on it.

Description Fine Endorsable
Failing to display a valid tax disc 5 Cyprus pounds xxxx
Being a slow moving obstruction 15 Cyprus pounds xxxx
Parking on the zig zags or in controlled areas of a pedestrian crossing 15 Cyprus pounds xxxx
Using a vehicle with a defective tyre 15 Cyprus pounds xxxx
Not wearing a seat belt (also applies to rear seats) 100 Cyprus pounds Yes
Causing pollution via exhaust omissions 30 Cyprus pounds xxxx
Not wearing a crash helmet (motorcycle) 50 Cyprus pounds Yes
One way street - travelling the wrong way 15 Cyprus pounds xxxx
Travelling in reverse unnecessarily 15 Cyprus pounds xxxx
Failing to comply with the directions given by a police officer 15 Cyprus pounds xxxx
Obstruction of the highway 15 Cyprus pounds xxxx
Defective or missing number plates 15 Cyprus pounds xxxx
Using horn unnecessarily (residential areas) 15 Cyprus pounds xxxx
Faulty exhaust bafflers 30 Cyprus pounds xxxx
Parking: facing the flow of traffic on the right hand side of the road or in a restricted area. 15 Cyprus pounds xxxx
Speeding: Fined at £3.00 per kph above the speed limit   Yes
Not carrying a warning triangle in vehicle 5 Cyprus pounds xxxx
Carrying a dangerous load and/or the overhang (exceeding 10% of the vehicles overall length) 15 Cyprus pounds xxxx
Defective lights 15 Cyprus pounds xxxx
Failing to ensure that the pillion rider is above 12 years of age and is sitting astride the motorcycle 15 Cyprus pounds xxxx
Allowing a pillion rider on a motorcycle to sit in front of the rider 15 Cyprus pounds xxxx
Carrying a passenger in the commercial compartment area of a commercial vehicle 30 Cyprus pounds xxxx
Not having the correct bumpers fitted. 30 Cyprus pounds xxxx
Using a mobile phone whilst in driving 100 Cyprus pounds xxxx
Smoking whilst conveying council workers 20 Cyprus pounds xxxx
Commercial vehicles littering the road 20 Cyprus pounds xxxx
Failing to comply with automatic traffic signals (red light) 50 Cyprus pounds Yes


The following offences will be referred directly to court for the judges to consider, those found guilty can be fined, endorsed and possibly even banned:

No driving licence
No insurance
No road fund licence
Exceeding the prescribed speed limit by 50 Kp/h or more
Being drunk in charge of a vehicle
Dangerous or thoughtless driving
Driving without due care and attention
Driving an unregistered vehicle
   

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