Dubai to 'write off' unregistered vehicles

The clock stops today for motor vehicles in Dubai whose registrations have expired for two years since the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) are set to erase their records.

Their records will be written off for not renewing for more than two years, the Gulf News reported quoting Ahmad Hashim Behroozian, CEO of the RTA’s Licensing Agency as saying.

This essentially means that vehicles “written off” will have no records with the RTA and will have to be re-registered by paying the usual fees plus accumulated fines.

Motorists who are usually fined for driving vehicles with expired registrations were in October given a three-month grace period to set their records straight. And that period ends on December 31.

Citing RTA’s records, the newspaper reported that the Licensing Agency registered 162,000 new vehicles until December 15 this year.

This is a sharp drop from the 740,187 new registrations made in 2006, with a three per cent annual increase until 2008. However only 27,000 new vehicles were registered in 2009.
 

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