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Notes to Chapter Eight

100 The matter of jurisdiction is further elaborated on in Article 8, b) to e),
regarding British property, ships, aircraft, and certain persons who
were physically outside the limits of this order.
101 Regulations no. 7 of 1960, no. 1 of 1962 and no. 1 of 1963.
102 Sec also below, page 368.
103 Statutory Instruments, 1963, no. 2095, entitled “The Trucial States
(Amendment) Order 1963"; it came into operation on 15th January 1964.
104 On 18 May 1952 the Ruler of Sharjah decreed the Sharjah Air
Navigation Regulation which was then made to apply to all persons
subject to the Trucial Stales Order in Council by the Queen’s Regulation
no. 3 of 1952. Other examples of such regulations which were adopted in
the same manner by publishing the official translation in a schedule of
the Queen’s Regulations, are the “Abu Dhabi Income Tax Regulation of
1965”, the “Northern Trucial Stales Pesticide (Control) Regulation 1965”,
the “Fujairah Income Tax Regulation 1967”, the “Dubai Municipal
Regulations 1958", the “Dubai Traffic Regulation I960", the “Dubai Air
Traffic Regulation 1966", the “Dubai Police Force Regulation 1966", and
the “Dubai Traffic Regulation 1968".
105 The enactment dealt with various matters such as “Trade Licenses",
"Officials Conduct Law", “Social Assistance Law" and the “Law for
Control of Hunting"; see Queen's Regulation no. 10 of 1971 (June 1971).
106 Regulation no. 7 of 1971.
107 To regulate the investigation of a particular accident which took place
on 3 August 1953 in Sharjah.
108 To protect the local pearling trade it became an offence to import, export
or sell any cultured, tinted, or Venezuelan pearls, to manufacture them
or sell bleached undrilled pearls.
109 Another example was the “Trucial States Insolvency Law Regulation",
1961, which abolished the use of the enactment of the Presidency of
Bombay.
110 See below, pages 375ff and also Steppat, Fritz, “Bemerkungen zur
Rechtsentwicklung in Abu Dhabi and den Vereinigten Arabischen
Emiraten" in: Zeitschrifl der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesell-
schaft. Supplement III, 1 (XIX. Deutscher Orientalistentag 1975) pp.
617-24.
111 Since 1964 a legal adviser was employed by the Trucial Stales Council to
draft laws for the five northern emirates and Dubai, while Abu Dhabi
excepted itself. The adviser, Mr Ahmad al Bitar from Jordan, drafted
several ordinances for the Rulers; he also planned for three courts to be
set up to cover these six Trucial States (a Court of the First Instance, a
Criminal Assize Court and a Court of Appeal), and he drafted a Penal
Code for the Trucial States Council. But none of these proposals were
enacted before the Council ceased to exist in 1971.
112 See Trucial States Orders in Council, Part VIII.
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