Two small transactions at the General Traffic Department, with few papers and modest fees — and plenty of people do not know they exist at all.
Replacing a damaged registration book: five dinars
If the vehicle’s registration book tears or its ink smudges while it is still in your hands, the transaction is called replacement of a damaged document, not replacement of a lost one. It takes two papers only:
A printed request to replace a damaged plate or vehicle book, and a copy of the civil ID. The fee is five dinars.
The difference is practical: replacing a lost book requires a police report and costs ten dinars. A damaged one needs no report, because the original exists and is handed to the clerk. So anyone with a battered book they can barely read is better off treating it as damaged before it becomes lost.
Requesting a vehicle check: two dinars
The other transaction is called vehicle inspection records, and the fee is two dinars. But its papers differ completely depending on who is asking.
For individuals: the civil ID of the person concerned. Anyone sending someone in their place needs a formal power of attorney.
For companies: a valid signature authorisation for the representative, and a signature authorisation for the company owner. Two papers rather than one, and both come from outside traffic.
In short
Seven dinars covers both transactions. What takes the time in either case is not the fee but the paper you have to fetch from somewhere else: the police report for a lost document, the signature authorisation for a company.
Photo: an inspector filling in a checklist in front of a car with its bonnet open.
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