The Min­istry of Works and Trans­port has made amend­ments to the Mo­tor Ve­hi­cles and Road Traf­fic Act, low­er­ing some traf­fic fines and de­mer­it points.

The or­der al­so in­tro­duces three new of­fences re­lat­ed to the mis­use of dis­abil­i­ty park­ing per­mits.  A fine of $2,000 and three de­mer­it points will ap­ply for us­ing an ex­pired or al­tered dis­abil­i­ty per­mit.  Dis­play­ing it in­cor­rect­ly will in­cur a $750 fine, and fail­ing to re­turn an in­valid per­mit will re­sult in a $500 fine. 

Some of­fences have seen fines re­duced from $1,000 to $500, with de­mer­it points re­duced from three to two.  Oth­ers have been re­duced from $750 to $500.

The Le­gal No­tice was pub­lished on Wednes­day 13 No­vem­ber 2024, but the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port says it is work­ing on a pub­lic aware­ness cam­paign to say ex­act­ly which fines have been ad­just­ed.

Min­is­ter of Works and Trans­port, Sen­a­tor Ro­han Sinanan, had in­di­cat­ed in June this year that the De­mer­it Points Sys­tem re­mains an evolv­ing frame­work that is ad­just­ed ac­cord­ing to out­comes and feed­back.

The Or­der will go in­to ef­fect next Mon­day, on No­vem­ber 18, 2024.