Bahrain Shura Council to discuss draft laws on road occupancy, passport and medical errors

TDT | Manama

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The Shura Council will discuss a draft law regarding the issuance of road occupancy licences when its members sit together today for their thirteenth meeting of the fourth session of the fifth legislative term. The draft law allows municipalities to issue licenses for public road occupancy instead of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs by amending some provisions of Decree-Law No 2 of 1996.

The draft also focuses on strengthening the public road works law by amending it to facilitate and simplify procedures for citizens to quickly obtain road occupancy licenses and file complaints against and decide on refusal decisions.

Shura Council members will also discuss a report of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and National Security Committee to amend some provision of Law No. (11) of 1975 regarding passports and accompanying Decree No. (25) of 2021.

The law includes a ban on leaving Bahrain or returning except through places designated for that, using the passport or any other document that replaces it or the identity card. The draft law authorises the Minister of Interior to issue a decision specifying other means for leaving Bahrain or returning and places designated for entering and leaving Bahrain.

The draft aims to enhance security, combat crime, facilitate identification of people, stop deportees at ports locally and internationally and boost international security cooperation.

It also aims at facilitating the transit movement of passengers departing from and coming to Bahrain through the electronic gates at Bahrain International Airport. The Council will also discuss a report of the Services Committee regarding the proposal of a law to amend some provisions of Decree-Law No. (7) of 1989 AD regarding practising medicine and dentistry.

Dr Ahmed Salem Al-Areed, Abdulrahman Muhammad Jamsheer, Darwish Ahmed Al-Mannai, Dr Muhammad Ali Hassan Ali, and Mona Yousef Al-Moayad made the proposal. The proposal for a law, which the committee did not agree to, includes the adoption of a civil liability insurance system for professional errors of practitioners of medicine, dentistry and paramedical professions.