DIPS demerit points by offence

When a licence holder is convicted of a scheduled offence, or pays a sum to compound a scheduled offence he or she is reasonably suspected to have committed, the Deputy Commissioner of Police shall award the demerit points specified in the Schedule for that offence (SSO, Road Traffic (Driver Improvement Points System) Rules r 3(1)).

Those points take effect from the date the offence was committed or, if compounded, from the date it is reasonably suspected to have been committed (SSO, Road Traffic (Driver Improvement Points System) Rules r 3(2)).

This article copies the Schedule in force from 1 January 2026 (S 808/2025). It is not a composition-fine table. Thresholds for suspension and probationary revocation remain on the live SPF DIPS page and in a separate vault article.

Speeding

Exceeding the speed limit for the vehicle (s 63(1) of the Act) or on a road (s 63(4)) attracts the same bands (SSO, DIPS Rules Schedule items (1) and (2)):

Other scheduled points

The rest of the Schedule, grouped by points awarded (SSO, DIPS Rules Schedule):

3 points

• Carrying excess pillion, or a pillion not sitting astride (item 3).
• Rider failing to wear a protective helmet, or wearing it insecurely (item 4); rider driving where a pillion is not wearing a helmet securely (item 4A).
• Disobeying a traffic direction of a police officer, employee of the Authority, or security officer engaged in regulating traffic (item 5).
• Conveying a load not properly secured (item 11).
• Using tyres with ply or cord carcass exposed (item 15).
• Driver failing to wear a seat belt (item 16).
• Parking abreast of another vehicle (item 31); parking within a pedestrian crossing (item 32); stopping in a zebra controlled area (item 34).
• Driver failing to ensure every passenger wears a seat belt (item 35).
• Using a motor vehicle where a person below 1.35 metres is not properly secured by an approved child restraint or body-restraining seat belt (item 36).
• Parking within a Demerit Points No Parking Zone (item 40); stopping within a Demerit Points No Stopping Zone (item 41).
• Failing to fill every passenger seat in the driver’s cabin (or adjacent enclosed space) before carrying any person on the floor of an open-deck goods vehicle (item 44).

4 points

• Failing to give way to oncoming traffic at a controlled junction (item 7); failing to give way at an uncontrolled junction (item 8), at a junction (item 9), or at a roundabout (item 10).
• Crossing double white lines (item 12); crossing a road divider (item 13).
• Obstructing the flow of traffic (item 17).
• Forming up incorrectly when turning left or right (item 18).
• Failing to give way to an ambulance, fire brigade, or police vehicle (item 19).
• Driving while carrying a load on a motor vehicle in a dangerous manner (item 20).
• Stopping on the shoulder or verge of an expressway (item 33); stopping or remaining at rest on the carriageway of an expressway (item 39).

6 points

• Driving on the shoulder of an expressway (item 14).
• Failing to securely tie or attach goods to a goods vehicle to prevent their falling off (item 21).
• Offences committed by motorists at a pedestrian crossing (item 23).
• Driving or riding against the flow of traffic as indicated by traffic signs (item 24).
• Driving without due care or reasonable consideration where no hurt is caused (item 27).
• Carrying passengers on a motor vehicle or trailer in a dangerous manner (item 29).
• Reversing unnecessarily along an expressway (item 43).
• Failing to obey the 1.1 metre height restriction for persons carried on an open-deck goods vehicle (item 45).
• Carrying passengers when the clear floor space of the open deck of a goods vehicle available for each passenger is insufficient (item 46).

9 points

• Driving without due care or reasonable consideration where hurt is caused (item 25).
• Carrying passengers on a goods vehicle in a dangerous manner (item 28).

12 points

• Failing to conform to traffic light signals (item 26).
• Use of mobile telephone while driving (item 42).

24 points

• Reckless or dangerous driving where hurt is caused (item 30).
• Reckless or dangerous driving where no hurt is caused (item 30A).

Extra points in marked zones

Where the offence is one listed in items (1)(a)–(e), (2)(a)–(e), (5), (7), (8), (9), (10), (12), (13), (18), (23), (24), (25), (26), (27) or (42), and it is committed (or reasonably suspected to have been committed) in a school zone, silver zone, or zone demarcated as “Friendly Streets,” the Deputy Commissioner of Police may award 2 demerit points in addition to the Schedule points (SSO, DIPS Rules r 3(1A)).

If the same place is demarcated as more than one of those zone types, no more than 2 additional points may be awarded under that rule (SSO, DIPS Rules r 3(1B)).

The official Basic Theory of Driving handbook footnote restates those zone-based enhancements (School/Silver Zones from 1 July 2021; Friendly Streets from 1 January 2026) as +2 demerit points and +$100 to the composition fine, capped at $500 where applicable (SPF, Basic Theory of Driving). Composition amounts are not in the DIPS Rules Schedule.

Coverage debt

• The live SPF “Penalties for Traffic Offences” HTML page could not be parsed as text on 2026-09-12, so composition amounts in this article are not copied from that page.
• Offences that attract a composition fine but zero DIPS points (for example stopping in a yellow box, in the official handbook table) are not scheduled offences under these Rules.

Sources

• Road Traffic (Driver Improvement Points System) Rules (version in force from 1 January 2026)
• SPF, Basic Theory of Driving (official handbook, last updated 2 January 2026)