Dubai ruler issues law to regulate civil organisations
DUBAI, July 1, 2017
Dubai Ruler Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum has issued a new law regulating civil organisations in the emirate to activate the civil society’s role and achieve social development, said a report.
Sheikh Mohammed, who is also the Prime MInister and Vice-President of the UAE, stated that under the new law a non-profit organisation that practices in social, health, educational, cultural, scientific, occupational, creative, art and humanitarian fields as stipulated in the legislation will be considered a civil establishment, reported state news agency Wam.
The law defines that the civil organisation is an entity founded by a legal person or a group of founders. Each civil institution should designate a certain financial allocation to manage its activity-which must be one of the previously mentioned activities, it stated.
Sheikh Mohammed said the Community Development Authority (CDA) is the governing body mandated to oversee the implementation of the law and ensure the realisation of its goals. The authority is tasked with issuing licences for civil institutions and their branches in the emirate.
No person or an organisation is allowed to exercise any of the prescribed activities except after a licence is obtained from the authority (CDA), said the Wam report.
The law defines the terms of establishing the civil organisation, including that the founders should not be less than 10 persons, including two Emiratis. Each organisation should had a statute consistent with the provisions of the new legislation and its bylaws, it added.
