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Panel passes bill on gun ban, penalty on illegal arms raised; Independent Bloc elects executive committee members
KUWAIT: The National Assembly’s Legislative and Legal Committee on Satur-day passed two laws once regarding the ban on ownership of firearms and the other on transfer of properties. Under the first law, the penalty for the illegal ownership of light firearms was raised from five years to ten years in jail while the penalty for acquiring automatic firearms was raised from seven years to 15 years in jail. As for the fines to pay in either case, they are not less than KD 2,000 and not more than KD 10,000, the committee rapporteur MP Waleed Tabtabaei said. He added that the transfer of property was put under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance instead of the Kuwait Municipality. Meanwhile, in another development, the Independent Bloc Saturday elected MPs AbdulWahed Al-Awadhi, Jamal Al-Omar, Saleh Ashour, Abdullah Al-Fahma, and Dr Barrak Al-Noun as members of its executive committee. These MPs will work along with General Coordinator of the bloc MP Talal Al-Ayyar.
During a meeting held Saturday the bloc praised the National Assembly’s Finance and Economic Committee role in the issue of writing-off the deduction of interests from the pension of retirees. The bloc vowed to follow several key economic issues — including waiving the deduction of interest from the pension of retirees, seeking a special Parliamentary session to discuss the pegging of Kuwaiti dinar with the American dollar and its effect on the loans availed by citizens, lowering the retirement age of women to enable them take care of their family, and submitting a request for a special session to discuss the issue of ignoring consumer loans of citizens. The executive committee of the bloc stressed its plan to support all efforts aimed at strengthening Kuwait’s internal security and improving the solidarity of the society.
By Ben Arfaj Al-Mutairi - Special to the Arab Times and Agencies
Panel passes bill on gun ban, penalty on illegal arms raised; Independent Bloc elects executive committee members
KUWAIT: The National Assembly’s Legislative and Legal Committee on Satur-day passed two laws once regarding the ban on ownership of firearms and the other on transfer of properties. Under the first law, the penalty for the illegal ownership of light firearms was raised from five years to ten years in jail while the penalty for acquiring automatic firearms was raised from seven years to 15 years in jail. As for the fines to pay in either case, they are not less than KD 2,000 and not more than KD 10,000, the committee rapporteur MP Waleed Tabtabaei said. He added that the transfer of property was put under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance instead of the Kuwait Municipality. Meanwhile, in another development, the Independent Bloc Saturday elected MPs AbdulWahed Al-Awadhi, Jamal Al-Omar, Saleh Ashour, Abdullah Al-Fahma, and Dr Barrak Al-Noun as members of its executive committee. These MPs will work along with General Coordinator of the bloc MP Talal Al-Ayyar.
During a meeting held Saturday the bloc praised the National Assembly’s Finance and Economic Committee role in the issue of writing-off the deduction of interests from the pension of retirees. The bloc vowed to follow several key economic issues — including waiving the deduction of interest from the pension of retirees, seeking a special Parliamentary session to discuss the pegging of Kuwaiti dinar with the American dollar and its effect on the loans availed by citizens, lowering the retirement age of women to enable them take care of their family, and submitting a request for a special session to discuss the issue of ignoring consumer loans of citizens. The executive committee of the bloc stressed its plan to support all efforts aimed at strengthening Kuwait’s internal security and improving the solidarity of the society.
By Ben Arfaj Al-Mutairi - Special to the Arab Times and Agencies
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