Traffic Offences and Penalties

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:

A fine of 3,00 euros 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 euros

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 euros

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

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 euros

Eating or drinking whilst driving a vehicle
A fine of 50 euros

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.



A bill approved by the Cyprus Cabinet has serious consequnces for new drivers with less than two years’ experience, or a licence issued to a new driver less than two years old. Any offences commited will result in double penalty points.

Those who are caught contravening road traffic law will be required to pay the fine for non-endorsable offences at: Traffic Police Base, Paphos: Tel: 26-953 512

Endorsable offences at:

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

If you are prosecuted and points are awarded they will appear in the endorsments section of your licence, along with accompanying details of the offence commited and the number of penalty points awarded.

The following offences will be referred 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

Failing to display a valid tax disc

Being a slow moving obstruction

Parking on the zig zags or in controlled areas of a pedestrian crossing

Using a vehicle with a defective tyre

Not wearing a seat belt (also applies to rear seats)

Causing pollution via exhaust omissions

Not wearing a crash helmet (motorcycle)

One way street - travelling the wrong way

Travelling in reverse unnecessarily

Failing to comply with the directions given by a police officer

Obstruction of the highway

Defective or missing number plates

Using horn unnecessarily (residential areas)

Faulty exhaust bafflers

Parking: facing the flow of traffic on the right hand side of the road or in a restricted area.

Speeding: Fined at 1.71 euros per kph above the speed limit

Not carrying a warning triangle in vehicle

Carrying a dangerous load and/or the overhang (exceeding 10% of the vehicles overall length)

Defective lights

Failing to ensure that the pillion rider is above 12 years of age and is sitting astride the motorcycle

Allowing a pillion rider on a motorcycle to sit in front of the rider

Carrying a passenger in the commercial compartment area of a commercial vehicle

Not having the correct bumpers fitted.

Using a mobile phone whilst in driving

Commercial vehicles littering the road

Failing to comply with automatic traffic signals (red light)