Penalty Points System To Be Officially Adopted On Driving Licenses

Transport and Public Works Minister, Boudjemaa Talei will present, on Monday, a draft on penalty points system for driving licences, in order to be discussed at the Committee of Transport of the National People’s Council, and it is expected to enter into force officially by the beginning of 2017.

He told Echorouk on Sunday, that the draft law, which was approved by government recently, will be presented tomorrow at the Transport Committee of the National People’s Council for debate before it will passed on the first chamber for approval, adding that this system will be officially applied early in 2017.

“Bio-metric driving licences, similar to the bio-metric identification cards, will be adopted instead of the current driving licenses, in order to be smaller and more precise. The more penalties are larger, a larger number of points will be taken from the driver, until the withdrawal of the driving license permanently from reckless drivers”.

“Penalty points license is a new system that will be adopted by the Transport Ministry to control traffic violations, and this method will coincide with the adoption of dealing with irregularities, with the replacement of the current driving licenses with bio-metric ones, while the work with this system will include 24 points for normal drivers, and 12 points for holders of new (blue) driving licenses”.

It is known that any irregularities that are committed in the framework of the new law are classified into four grades, as the first-class offenses are less serious and the driver will pay one point, and two points for infractions of second degree, 4 points for violations of the third degree, 6 points for violations of the fourth degree, and when exhausting all the points, the driver’s licence will be taken definitively from him/her, and this will be recorded by security services, and the driver is forced to get driving lessons to obtain a new driving licence, and he/she has not the right to obtain it before six months from the cancellation of the previous license.

This new policy will be adopted by the Transport Ministry in order to reduce the volume of offenses and thus reduce the number of traffic accidents.