Judicial fees law amended

Manama : His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has ratified and issued Law 24/2016 amending some provisions of Decree-by-Law 3/1972 regarding judicial fees.

Article 1 of the Law stipulates that Chapter 3 titled “The amendment and waiver of judicial fees” of Law Decree 3/1972 regarding judicial fees has been replaced with “The amendment, deferment and waiver of judicial fees”

Also, the text of Article 10 of the aforesaid decree has been replaced with “The denominations of the fees shall be decided and amended as per a resolution from the Minister of Justice after Cabinet approval shall not exceed 3% of the value of the financial claim of more than three thousand dinars and in all circumstances, the value of the fees shall not exceed a maximum of two hundred thousand; and, the Minister of Justice or anyone assigned by him may defer or waive all or some of the judicial fees from those proven unable to pay the judicial fees.”

The Prime Minister and the Ministers in his domain have been instructed to implement this law effective from the day following the date of its publishing in the Official Gazette.