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Licence demerit points

If you commit a demerit points offence anywhere in Australia, the demerit points allocated for the offence may be recorded on your traffic history.

Your traffic history is a record of all of your road rules related offences, as well as any drink-driving, drug-driving, dangerous driving or vehicle registration offences which you have committed in Australia.

The demerit points set for the offence are taken to have been allocated on the day that you committed the offence, as soon as you have either:

paid the fine set for the offence
or
been dealt with by a court for the offence.

The demerit points schedule (PDF**, 235KB) describes selected demerit points offences, the value of the fine, and the number of demerit points that have been set for each offence.

If you wish to obtain a copy of your traffic history, you must complete a Driver Record Information Application form (F2121). You must lodge the form in person at a Department of Transport and Main Roads customer service centre, authorised Queensland Government Agency Program office or at a licence-issuing police station. A fee will apply.

To update your knowledge of Queensland Road Rules, visit the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel website or purchase a copy of the Transport Operations (Road Use Management-Road Rules) Regulation 1999 from The Queensland Government Bookshop.

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Last updated 05 October 2009