{"id":26793,"date":"2020-11-07T13:23:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T09:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=26793"},"modified":"2020-11-07T14:53:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T10:53:10","slug":"adopting-amending-of-some-laws-provisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2020\/11\/07\/adopting-amending-of-some-laws-provisions\/","title":{"rendered":"President approves amendments to Personal Status, Civil Transactions, Penal Code, Criminal Procedural laws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has approved Federal Law-Decrees to amend the Personal Status, Civil Transactions, Penal Code and Criminal Procedural laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Federal Law-Decrees mean to further enhance the UAE legislative environment, entrench the principles of tolerance in the society and strengthen the country\u2019s position as a preferred hub that attracts people to reside and work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the UAE solid commitment to protecting women&#8217;s rights, amendments to the Penal Code and Criminal Procedural law have repealed the article giving reduced (lenient) sentence in what is called &#8220;honour crimes&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another context, the amendments also allow the UAE Attorney General, in coordination with prosecutors in local authorities, to identify cases involving misdemeanours and infractions, where Penal Order can be applied, a step that aims at reducing the burden on the judiciary, especially in cases of minor cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, amendments to the Personal Status and the Civil Transactions laws allow non-citizens to choose the law that governs issues such as inheritance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has approved Federal Law-Decrees to amend the Personal Status, Civil Transactions, Penal Code and Criminal Procedural laws. The Federal Law-Decrees mean to further enhance the UAE legislative environment, entrench the principles of tolerance in the society and strengthen the country\u2019s position as a preferred hub that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26800,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26793\/revisions\/26800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}