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The Official Newspaper        

Issued every Thursday of the week 

Year 146                                                      Monday 12/6/06 

A Law

Issued on 9/6/06

Organizing the Unitarian Druze Sect Affairs

CLAUSE 2

CHAPTER 5: GENERAL AND TRANSITIONAL TERMS 

ITEM 49 

The UDS deputy Sheikh- Akl has to call for the election of the first new Sect’s Council within 30 days of issuing this law. In case he fails to do that, the president of the UDS Higher Court of Appeal officially calls for the election, and sets a date for that within 60 days of issuing this law and according to its terms. 

ITEM 50

The SECT’S Council holds its first session within ten days of its election, headed by its eldest member who, according to this law, calls for the election of a new Sheikh

Akl. Moreover, the Council of Trustees of the Druze Consecrated Estates is to be considered officially dissolved according to the law no. 164 date 28/ 12/ 1999, as soon as the new Sect’s Council is elected, and has to hand over all documents, money, legal papers and records to the new Sect’s Council once the latter is elected.  

ITEM 51

The term ‘Druze Sect’ is to be replaced by ‘the Unitarian Druze Sect’ [UDS] in whatever scripts it is mentioned in all legal and applicable rules and regulations, and this term is to be adopted in any legal script established and acknowledged later on. 

ITEM 52

All rulings [terms] that conflict with this law, or that do not conform with its content, are to be ruled out [cancelled] , in particular the law relating to the constitution of the UDS’s Council , issued on 13/7/ 1962, and the law relating to the constitution of the UDS’s Council of Consecrated Estates Trustees no. 164, issued on 28/12/1999. 

ITEM 53

The law for electing the Sheikh-el-Akl issued on 13/7/1962 with its modifications, and the law that organizes the UDS’s affairs in relation to the Sheikh-el-Akl post, no. 208, issued on 26/5/2000 are to be cancelled; also, all scripts and clauses that conflict with this law or that do not conform with it, are to be cancelled. 

ITEM 54

1-Within one month of issuing this law in the official newspaper, workers and employees assume responsibilities at their posts at the Sheikh-el-Akl’s, the Sect’s Council’s, and the Consecrated Estates trustees’ locations of work [quarters], and are to be positioned at their new locations according to the terms of this law.

2-Any worker or employee at the Skeikh-el-Akl’s ,or at the Sect’s Council’s, or at the Consecrated Estates’ trustees offices, can request to end his services during an interval that starts on the date the law is issued, and ends one month after the election of the Sheikh-el-Akl.

An employee or worker whose resignation is accepted legally in this case, is given, in addition to his legal financial rights, if they exist, an additional compensation to the sum of his salary and indemnification, equivalent to the sum of his salary and indemnification on 12 months, provided that the sum exceeds twelve million Lebanese pounds, if he has served for more than five years at his post. If, however, his time of service is less than five years, he would be compensated by a half-month salary for each year of service, provided that the sum exceeds six million Lebanese pounds.

The resignation request cannot be retracted [withdrawn] once registered at the Common department. 

Item 55

This law becomes effective once published in the official newspaper.

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