REGISTER OF LAWS OF THE ARABIAN GULF

William Ballantyne, Barrister, Serle Court, Lincolns Inn, London, & McNair Chambers, Doha, Qatar; Visiting Professor of Arab Laws, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London; Hon. Chairman, Arab Legal Forum, International Bar Association; formerly member of the Bars of Bahrain, Kuwait, & the UAE
Kathryn Garratt, Executive Editor

This major reference work allows lawyers and scholars dealing with the Arabian Gulf to have access to a database which identifies laws and regulations originating in each country of the Arab Gulf from the commencement of legislative promulgation to the present day. Such a comprehensive source is invaluable to lawyers wishing to identify the evolution of a particular series of legislative measures over a period of time or to verify when a certain legislative instrument was promulgated. No similar work exists in the English language.

Requiring a high degree of expertise in its compilation and translation from the Arabic, the Register is compiled directly from the original Arabic sources - principally from the Official Gazettes of the GCC states of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, including the individual emirates of Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The coverage also includes the laws passed during and surviving from the British extraterritorial system in the Persian Gulf which terminated in 1961 in Kuwait and in 1971 in the rest of the Gulf. Enactments promulgated simultaneously by the Rulers in their own parallel jurisdictions are also included.

All the laws and regulations for each country are indexed both chronologically and by subject, allowing rapid retrieval of information. Quarterly supplements to the main work in two volumes allow subscribers to maintain a completely current record of legislation for each of the G.C.C. states.

CONTENTS

Volume 1

Introduction: Professor William Ballantyne

Section A: Legislation issued in the Persian Gulf Gazette 1953-1972

Section B: Bahrain

  • Index to compiled statutes of Bahrain
  • Index to compilation of Bahrain Laws & Notices
  • Bahrain Official Gazettes Chronological Index of Laws 1958-2010
  • Bahrain Official Gazette Chronological Index of Laws by Subject 1958-2010

Section C: Kuwait

  • Kuwait Official Gazettes Chronological Index of Laws 1954-2010
  • Kuwait Official Gazettes Chronological Index of Laws by Subject 1954-2010

Section E: Oman

  • Oman Official Gazettes Chronological Index of Laws 1971-2010
  • Oman Official Gazettes Chronological Index of Laws by Subject 1971-2010

Volume 2

Section E: Qatar

  • Qatar Official Gazettes Chronological Index of Laws 1961-2010
  • Qatar Official Gazettes Chronological Index of Laws by Subject 1961-2010

Section F: Saudi Arabia

  • Saudi Arabia Official Gazettes
    Chronological Index of Laws 1950 - 2010
  • Saudi Arabia Official Gazettes Chronological Index of Laws by Subject 1950-2010

Section G: United Arab Emirates

  • UAE Official Gazettes Chronological Index of Laws 1971-2010
  • UAE Official Gazettes Chronological Index of Laws by Subject 1971-2010
  • Abu Dhabi Chronological Index of Laws & Decrees not published in Gazettes 1965-1971
  • Abu Dhabi Index of Laws in First Series 1968-1971
  • Abu Dhabi Index of Laws in Second Series 1972-2000
  • Abu Dhabi Chronological Index of Laws by Subject 1969-2001 inc. laws not included in Gazettes
  • Dubai Chronological Index of Legislation 1962-2003
  • Ras Al Khaimah Chronological Index of Legislation 1964-1979
  • Sharjah Chronological Index of Legislation 1953-1983

Index of Laws by Subject

The laws of each state are indexed not only chronologically but also by subject, as follows:

  1. Aviation, Airports
  2. Commerce & Industry
  3. Companies
  4. Courts, Legal Procedures
  5. Customs, Imports & Exports
  6. Education, Recreation, Culture
  7. Finance, Banking, Tax, Currency
  8. Foreigners' Regulations
  9. Government (state administration, elections, government bodies)
  10. International Relations, Treaties
  11. Labour & Social Security, Civil service, Military & Security Forces
  12. Land, Property, Natural Resources
  13. Municipal Regulations
  14. Nationality, Passports, Family/Civil Status
  15. Ports, Shipping, Fishing
  16. Public Health & Welfare
  17. Public Security
  18. Trades, Professions & Occupations
  19. Traffic & Motor Vehicles

Valuable Library of the Laws of the Gulf States at your fingertips

The shortage of reference sources for the laws of the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council has made research in this field extremely challenging. Now lawyers dealing with the GCC can solve this problem by using The Register of Laws of the Arabian Gulf, with its regular quarterly updating service, as an invaluable aid to researching the law in any of the GCC states.

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