Federal Law Draft Amending Some Provisions of Federal Law No. 47 of 1992 by Establishing the Zayed Marriage Fund
Honorable Chairperson: “Article 1 is substituted with the text of Article 1 of Federal Law No. 47 of 1992 referred to, repeated, and its text is as follows: Article 1 repeated: A public institution called the ‘Zayed Marriage Fund’ shall be established, having independent legal personality and full capacity to perform legal acts to achieve its purposes, and shall be under the supervision of the Cabinet.” – Here, Excellency President, I simply note that we have restored the phrase “…shall be established…” so as not to invalidate the issue of the act of establishment.
Additionally, we have added the name of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan – may God rest his soul – as he is the founder of this Fund. Furthermore, we have added at the end of the article a statement indicating the Fund’s subordination to the Cabinet, as this subordination was previously unspecified. The primary purpose of this amendment is to remove the subordination to the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs as it was before. Thank you.
Dr. Hisham Mohamed Fawzi: (Legal Advisor to the Council) Mr. Chairman, we have retained the word “shall be established” because we are dealing here with a law amending another law. The aim is to replace the article and remove the subordination to the Minister of Labor while assigning it to the Cabinet. Therefore, the word “shall be established” must remain as it has existed since the law’s inception until now. If we were to annul the law and create a new law, we could possibly delete the notion of establishment. This is what we did with the Zayed Housing Law, where we stated that the program remains valid under the provisions of the new law. However, in this case of amending an article by removing subordination and assigning it to the Cabinet, the article regarding establishment must remain as is. Thank you.
Dr. Hisham Mohamed Fawzi: (Legal Advisor to the Council) This is a simple matter of wording all about discretionary power. Instead of expressing the phrase in five words, we reach the meaning in one word. This is a settled matter in all our laws now, where we delete the word “may” and suffice with the discretionary negation. Rather than saying “may for the Council,” we say “for the Council,” so this is a matter of wording alone, and this is better, thank you.
Dr. Hisham Mohamed Fawzi: (Legal Advisor to the Council) This text came as a result of many complaints that we received, so we are trying to support it with the law, and this strengthens the Fund rather than weakening it because when the Fund requests a budget, it is allocated an amount (200) or (300) million dirhams, and it says that I have old requests of (100) million dirhams, so this meets the payment of those requests. The presence of this text in the law strengthens the Fund and is very important to mention in the law because it also aligns with the Council’s recommendation, which strengthens rather than weakens the Fund, thank you.
