DOHA: High-profile committees are being formed that would look into disputes between owners of building and other real estate projects and contractors to ensure the disputes are settled quickly.
Currently, such disputes are taken to court which being saddled with large numbers of different types of litigations, obviously takes time to dispense justice.
The State Cabinet yesterday approved a draft decision to set up the above-said committee. The draft talks of procedures for examining requests to settle disputes related to real estate development.
A real estate sector expert Ahmed Al Orouqi told this newspaper that the committee formation was a welcome move because it would save the time in settling disputes between building and other real estate project owners and contracting compnies. The courts, he said, take a lot of time in settling the disputes. The Cabinet also approved a draft decision of the Minister of Economy and Commerce to maintain data of real estate developers. Another draft decision was approved relating to procedures regarding payments from bank security provided by real estate development projects.
H E the Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani chaired the cabinet’s regular meeting at the Emiri Diwan, reports QNA. The cabinet approved a draft law on the prohibition of workers’ housing clusters in family residential areas. The bill includes provisions under which it is prohibited to rent, lease or allocate places and parts of places of all types for the accommodation of workers within family residential areas. The minister of Municipality and Urban Planning may exclude some areas or some categories of workers from the this draft law. Competent authorities should refrain from delivery of public services
The drafting of these bills is to help implement the provisions of Law 6 of 2014 regulating of real estate development and transactions so as to ensure the rights of real estate ownership, facilitate procedures and speed up the process of deciding disputes in real estate development.
The first bill included the creation of one or more committee at the Ministry of Economy and Commerce to settle the disputes of real estate development under the chairmanship of a court president judge at the court of first instance who is to be chosen by the Supreme Judiciary Council.
Two other members are to be chosen by the minister of economy and commerce, one of them is from the Ministry of Justice. Each committee will have a secretariat to follow up on the implementation of decisions issued by the committee. The second bill includes provisions related to the regulation of meetings of the committee on rent dispute settlement, procedures of requesting a dispute settlement, inviting parties to the dispute to negotiate, and the duration of issuing a committee decision.
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