The amount you are asked to pay is not in the law. Here is what is.
Singapore’s statutes state a maximum fine on conviction, and a ceiling on what a composition may be — half the maximum fine, or a flat cap, whichever is lower. They do not state the sum the Traffic Police will actually offer you. No instrument does. This site shows you the figures that exist, cites each one, and says plainly where the law is silent.
- Every figure cited to a provision
- No lookup, no payment, no NRIC
- Says what the law does not say
THREE NUMBERS THE LAW DOES STATE
What the statutes actually fix
A maximum on conviction, an absolute ceiling on any composition, and the point total at which a licence is liable to suspension. None of them is what you will be asked to pay.
- $1,000Maximum fine on a first offenceRTA 1961 s.131(2)(a) — where the Act states no special penalty
- $5,000Absolute ceiling on a compositionRTA 1961 s.135(1)(b) — a ceiling, not a price
- 24 pointsSuspension threshold in 24 monthsR25 r.4(1) — non-monetary, and there is no conversion to money
All amounts are Singapore dollars (SGD). Figures quoted from an instrument are reproduced as the instrument writes them.
THE FIGURE THAT IS NOT IN THE LAW
No instrument states the sum you will be offered. Here is what they do state.
Both Acts state a ceiling on a composition sum and neither states the sum offered. That figure is set administratively by the Traffic Police. This site shows the ceiling, labels it as a ceiling, and does not invent the rest.
- The maximum on convictionSourced. The largest figure on any penalty section here, because it is the one the statute states.
- The composition ceilingDerived — half the maximum fine, or the flat cap, whichever is lower. Recomputed by the build, not typed.
- The sum offeredNot stated anywhere. It renders as a refusal in words, never as a number, a zero or a dash.
COMPOSITION CEILING
A worked example, in full
Every composition figure on this site renders in this shape: the sourced maximum first and largest, the derived ceiling beneath it with its arithmetic shown, and the refusal underneath both.
COMPOSITION CEILING
An offence for which the Act states no special penalty — first offence
- Maximum on conviction
- $1,000RTA 1961 s.131(2)(a)
- Statutory ceiling on a composition
- $500½ × $1,000 = $500, under the $5,000 cap
- Sum you will be asked to pay
This is the statutory ceiling, not the amount you will be asked to pay.
The Traffic Police set the actual composition sum administratively, within this ceiling. It is not stated in the Road Traffic Act, the Parking Places Act, the Composition of Offences Rules, or any instrument this site cites — and this site does not invent it.
HOW TO READ ANY PAGE HERE
Route first, then money, then points
The order is not stylistic. Whether an offence can be compounded at all changes what kind of thing the money is, so it is settled before a figure appears.
Most people arrive here holding a piece of paper and wanting one number. It is worth saying early that the number on that paper is not in any statute, and that this is not a failing of the search you just did. Singapore’s road traffic legislation sets the outer limits — what a court may impose on conviction, and the most a settlement out of court may come to — and leaves the actual settlement figure to be fixed administratively by the Traffic Police. Sites that quote a confident figure are quoting that administrative schedule, or quoting each other quoting it. This one does neither.
What is left once you stop guessing at that figure turns out to be most of what actually matters. Whether the offence can be settled at all. Whether paying clears the record, and it does not. How many demerit points the offence carries and what happens when they accumulate. Whether a disqualification is a possibility or a certainty. Which of the three schemes that share the words “demerit points” is the one your letter is about. All of that is in the instruments, all of it is citable, and almost none of it is written down clearly anywhere a driver would think to look.
What this site will not do
It will not check a fine, take a payment, or submit an appeal. Those are transactions between you and an agency, and this site holds no records and asks for nothing — no identity number, no licence or vehicle number, no notice number, no date of birth. Where a page reaches the point at which one of those transactions has to happen, it names the agency and links out, and stops there. It also will not tell you what a court will do with your particular case, and it is not legal advice.
- Find the routeCompoundable, or court only. The Composition of Offences Rules name the sections that may be compounded; the ones they do not name cannot be.
- Read the maximumThe maximum on conviction is what the statute states. It is sourced, cited, and the largest figure on the block.
- Treat the ceiling as a ceilingWhere a composition is available, the law caps it. It does not price it, and neither does this site.
THE DISPOSAL FORK
Named in the composition rules
There is a route that does not go to court. What the sum will be is not stated in law — see below.
Exceeding the limit on the road, careless driving, mobile-device offences and failing to report an accident are all named individually in the rule.
R29 r.2(a) — the enumerated Act sections
Absent from the composition rules
No composition is available for this offence. It is disposed of by a court.
Reckless driving, drink driving, being in charge, and exceeding the limit for the vehicle class are not in the list at all. That absence is the legal fact.
R29 r.2(a) — an absence, and r.2(b) does not reach an Act section
HEDGE
How far the second limb reaches is unsettled
The Composition of Offences Rules have two limbs. The first names individual sections of the Act. The second compounds “the offences under any rules or orders made under the Act” as a class, with no enumeration at all — and there are a great many such rules and orders. Whether that second limb reaches every rule-made offence unconditionally, or is read more narrowly, is not settled by the instruments themselves. This site does not decide it: where our source does not itself state that a particular offence is compoundable, the page says the scope is unsettled and quotes the rule, rather than asserting an answer.
R29 r.2(b)
TWO SPEEDING LADDERS, NOT ONE
The same reading can be two different offences
One instrument sets a limit for your class of vehicle; another sets the limit on the road. The demerit points are identical band for band. Only one of the two can be compounded.
LIMIT FOR THE VEHICLE CLASS — s.63(1)
R13 Schedule
COURT ONLY
| Over the limit by | Demerit points |
|---|---|
| 0 km/h – 20 km/h | 6 |
| 20 km/h – 30 km/h | 8 |
| 30 km/h – 40 km/h | 12 |
Showing the first 3 of 5 bands. The full ladder, with its own provenance, is on the speeding page.
DATED · R13 Schedule's own latest dated marker: S 67/2019 wef 01/02/2019
Road Traffic (Driver Improvement Points System) Rules (R 25), Schedule, item (1) — “(1) Exceeding speed limit for vehicle — (a) by more than 0 but not more than 20 kilometres per hour 6 (b) ...20...30... 8 (c) ...30...40... 12 (d) ...40...50... 18 (e) by more than 50 kilometres per hour 24 [Section 63(1) of the Act]”
LIMIT ON THE ROAD — s.63(4)
N6 r.2 + Schedules
COMPOUNDABLE
| Over the limit by | Demerit points |
|---|---|
| 0 km/h – 20 km/h | 6 |
| 20 km/h – 30 km/h | 8 |
| 30 km/h – 40 km/h | 12 |
Showing the first 3 of 5 bands. The full ladder, with its own provenance, is on the speeding page.
DATED · N6 r.2's latest dated touch: S 691/2025 wef 01/01/2026 (school zone) — the default limit's own marker is S 369/2024 wef 01/05/2024 (see the default road limit's own note)
Road Traffic (Driver Improvement Points System) Rules (R 25), Schedule, item (2) — “(2) Exceeding speed limit on a road — (a) by more than 0 but not more than 20 kilometres per hour 6 (b)...8 (c)...12 (d)...18 (e) by more than 50 kilometres per hour 24 [Section 63(4) of the Act]”
THREE REGISTERS, TWO WORDS
“Demerit points” names three different Singapore schemes
Only one of them is about your ordinary driving licence, and one of them is not about driving at all.
WHICH ONE YOU ARE LOOKING FOR
- Driver Improvement Points SystemR25 — ordinary driving licences
- Points on conviction, and also on paying a composition. Enough of them within the window and the licence is liable to suspension.
- Vocational licence pointsS 365/2017 — Land Transport Authority
- A separate register with its own catalogue, its own window anchor and its own suspension bands, for taxi and private-hire drivers.
- Workplace demerit pointsMinistry of Manpower — a different Act
- Not about driving at all, and out of scope for this site — stated here because it ranks on the same search.
BY TOPIC
Everything this site answers
- Traffic offences in SingaporeSingapore traffic offences and what each carries: the maximum fine on conviction, whether it can be compounded at all, and the demerit points, with provisions.
- SpeedingSingapore prices speeding on two parallel ladders — the limit for your vehicle class and the limit on the road. Identical demerit points, opposite disposal routes.
- Demerit pointsThe Driver Improvement Points System schedule, what each offence carries, when points suspend a licence, and the two other Singapore schemes that share the words.
- Drink driving penaltiesWhat the Road Traffic Act states for drink driving and for being in charge: a minimum fine as well as a maximum, mandatory disqualification, and the life ban.
- Parking finesParking sits under a different Act with a different clock: a flat general penalty, its own composition ceiling, and a further fine for every day it continues.
- Appealing a fineWhat an appeal against a Singapore traffic fine is, who decides it and where it is made. An explainer: this site cannot submit, check or pay anything for you.
WHAT THE LAW DOES NOT SAY
Five findings, each with its citation
An absence carries the same burden as a value here: a reason, a citation, and a date. These are product, not gaps.
NOT IN THE LAW
The law does not state what you will be asked to pay
The Road Traffic Act and the Parking Places Act each set a CEILING on a composition sum, in near-identical words: it may not exceed half the maximum fine prescribed for the offence, or a flat cap, whichever is lower. Neither Act — and no rule, notification or order made under either — states the sum actually offered. That figure is set administratively by the Traffic Police and published on their own service. So every composition figure on this site is the statutory ceiling, labelled as one, and never the amount you will be asked to pay. If you need that number, it comes from the agency named on your notice and from nowhere else.
Road Traffic (Composition of Offences) Rules (R 29), r.2 — the whole instrument: 4,616 characters, 4 rules, zero monetary amounts · Road Traffic Act 1961 (2020 Rev Ed), s.135(1) — states only the ceiling formula, never the sum offered
NOT IN THE LAW
Vehicle-class speeding cannot be settled out of court
The Composition of Offences Rules list, one by one, the sections of the Road Traffic Act whose offences may be compounded. Exceeding the speed limit set for your CLASS OF VEHICLE is not on that list. A second limb of the same rule compounds offences under any rules or orders made under the Act as a class — but that limb reaches rule-made offences, and this one is a section of the Act itself. So there is no composition route for it: the only disposal is a court. Exceeding the limit ON THE ROAD is a different offence under a different subsection, it IS named in the list, and it can be compounded. Same speedometer reading, two legal routes.
Road Traffic (Composition of Offences) Rules (R 29), r.2(a) — the full list contains “63(4)” and does NOT contain “63(1)”
NOT IN THE LAW
Drink driving and reckless driving cannot be compounded
Reckless or dangerous driving, drink driving, and being in charge of a vehicle while over the limit are all absent from the enumerated list of compoundable sections. None of them can be settled by paying a composition, and there is no version of the notice that offers you one. The route for all three is a court, which is also why they are the offences that carry a statutory minimum fine and a disqualification the court must order.
Road Traffic (Composition of Offences) Rules (R 29), r.2(a) — the list contains no “67”
NOT IN THE LAW
A demerit point is not worth an amount of money
Nothing in the Singapore instruments this site reads converts demerit points into money. Demerit points under the Driver Improvement Points System, the separate vocational licence points, and a new driver’s revocation are all purely non-monetary: they lead to suspension, prohibition or revocation of a licence, never to a larger fine. Several other countries do price points in money, so if you have arrived expecting a conversion, the absence is the answer rather than a gap.
Road Traffic (Driver Improvement Points System) Rules (R 25), whole instrument — no monetary conversion of points anywhere · Road Traffic (Chauffeured Private Hire Car and Taxi Vocational Licence Demerit Points System) Rules 2017 (S 365/2017), whole instrument — same
NOT IN THE LAW
The parking sign schedule is pictures, not words
The Parking Places Rules carry their own Schedule of parking signs — and that Schedule is a set of sign DIAGRAMS, not text. This site reads the instruments as published text, so it cannot reproduce them and does not guess at what each one depicts. Where a rule turns on which sign is erected, this site says which rule and which diagram number, and leaves the picture to the instrument.
Parking Places Rules (R 2), Schedule — seven sign diagrams, image content only
CHECKING AND PAYING
Those happen on the agency’s own service, not here
This site is not the Traffic Police, the LTA, HDB or URA, is not affiliated with them, and cannot act for you.
WHERE THIS HAPPENS
Checking, paying and appealing are done on the issuing agency’s own service. Use the agency named on your own notice.
- Traffic Police (Singapore Police Force)Road traffic offences, composition sums and demerit points on an ordinary driving licence. The composition sum this site does not state comes from here.Opens the agency’s own site
- Land Transport Authority (LTA)Vehicle and licensing matters, vocational licence points, and parking enforcement on the roads and carparks it manages.Opens the agency’s own site
- Housing & Development Board (HDB)Parking in HDB carparks, including season parking and short-term parking notices.Opens the agency’s own site
- Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA)Parking in the carparks and parking places it administers.Opens the agency’s own site
This site never asks for an NRIC or FIN, a driving licence number, a vehicle registration number, a notice or summons number, or a date of birth, and it renders no lookup or payment form.
COMMON QUESTIONS
The questions readers arrive with
START HERE
Find the offence, then the route, then the figure
Every page states its provision, distinguishes a sourced figure from a derived one, and says plainly where the instruments are silent.