Engineer Basem bin Yaqoub Al-Hamar, Minister of Housing, valued the outputs of cooperation with the Shura Council and Parliament to approve laws and legislation that contribute to the development of the housing work system and the improvement of housing services provided to citizens, the most prominent of which was during the last legislative term, the amendment of the requirements for the right to dispose of the housing service.
The Minister of Housing said that the ministry was keen to provide all aspects of cooperation with the legislative authority to preserve the rights of families wishing to benefit from the right of disposal service, which allows citizens to dispose of their real estate after completing the payment of the value of the housing service granted to them, explaining in this regard that before the issuance of Law No. (12) for the year 2020, which includes the amendment of Article No. 3 of Decree-Law No. 10 of 1976, the beneficiaries were not able to benefit from the request for the right to dispose service before the passage of 7 years from the termination of fulfilling the financial and legal obligations mentioned in the usufruct contract, a condition that was canceled in Article approved by the legislative authority, in the context of facilitating procedures for citizens.
The minister added that the amendments retained the condition of obtaining written permission to grant the beneficiary the right to dispose of his unit, as Ministerial Resolution No. 461 of 2020, which included a number of standards that guarantee the preservation of the family’s right to the housing unit, including the availability of written consent from the applicant’s wife Or his wives in the case of polygamy, and the approval of the unemployed adult children residing in the housing unit permanently and whose addresses are fixed on the housing unit and do not have a suitable property for housing, in addition to the consent of the parents or one of them if the service owner signed a pledge at the time of submitting the housing application or allocating their housing in the housing unit to the extent their lives, or if their addresses are established as permanent residence in the unit to be disposed of, as well as written approval from the Department of Funds of Minors in the event of the presence of minor brothers of the beneficiary of the fourth category or a minor heir to the head of a deceased family, and the approval of the heirs whose names are fixed in the legal obligation of the deceased head of the main family, and that After the ownership document is issued, in addition to the approval of all property owners if the document is registered with shares common among them.
Some criteria have also been added to ensure that housing projects remain in circulation among Bahraini families, by including a condition that the person who disposes of the property is a buyer or someone else who will transfer the right of ownership to those who have the right to own property in the housing area in which the property is located.
Engineer Al-Hamar added that the ministry guaranteed the right of housing for life to the owner of the housing unit in the event that he applied for a gift of the housing unit to one of his relatives, unless he proved his ownership of a habitable property and expressed his desire to waive the right of housing.
The Ministry also did not neglect to include in the decision additional guarantees in the event of children with severe physical or mental disabilities, by providing proof of ownership of another habitable property before being granted approval, adding that if it is proven that the applicant has divorced the head of the family, he must prove that he has not The existence of a judgment issued against him regarding the provision of housing rights to his ex-wife and his children. In addition to submitting evidence that there is no judicial dispute regarding the right of the divorced woman over the same housing unit related to her contribution to paying the value of the housing unit or guaranteeing its restoration or furnishing until the issue of the case is decided upon by a final ruling.
Engineer Al-Hamar said that the amendment of this article received positive feedback from the Bahraini families, stressing that the wife and children have a sense of security and psychological stability regarding their stability in housing with their housing services, as well as paying attention to their opinion and their role in making any decision regarding the disposal of their home, and not to monopolize the decision. On the head of the family only, adding that the Ministry of Housing received compliments from several parties on this issue, most notably members of the Shura and Representatives Councils, in addition to the Supreme Council for Women, which praised the ministry’s role in setting guarantees that preserve the rights of all family members, including wives, children, people with disabilities, or Parents or divorced.
