Amendment Bill Clause News Today

Permit me on behalf of the Joint Consultative Council to address Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi’s statement via a news conference on Monday. First, we agree that only Clause 5 of the Amendment Bill makes a tangible difference to the original act in seeking to amend Clause 7. To clarify, the AG is correct that the OPR still has oversight on the disposal of public property, and it is unfortunate that some commentators have misinterpreted the removal of Clause (o) from Section 13 (1) of the a...

The Joint Consultative Council for the Construction Industry (JCC) has called on Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi to advise on specifically what is missing from the draft regulations so that the public can get a sense that the Government is actually aggressively pursuing operationalisation of the Office of Procurement Regulator (OPR). JCC president Fazir Khan stated in a news release yesterday that civil society groups do not have a cadre of lawyers at their disposal, like the AG or the Finance M...