United Arab Emirates Constitution
vote, the Prime Minister has a casting vote. The minority shall abide by the opinion of the majority.
Article (62)
While in office, the Prime Minister, the Deputies of the Prime Minister, or any Minister of the UAE may not practice any professional, commercial or financial activity or enter into any commercial transactions with the Government of the UAE or the Governments of the Emirates or holds, besides his office, more than one official post in the Government of an Emirate[1].
Article (63)
Members of the Council of Ministers shall seek to serve the interests of the UAE, enhance the public welfare, avoid completely to make personal benefits, and shall not exploit their official post in any way to their benefit or to the benefit of anyone with whom they have special relationship.
Article (64)
The Prime Minister, his deputies and the ministers collectively are politically answerable to the President of the UAE and the Federal Supreme Council for implementing
- ↑ Article (62) was amended by Constitutional Amendment 1/2009. The previous
article reads as follows:
“While in office, the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, or any Minister of the UAE may not practice any professional, commercial or financial activity or enter into any commercial transactions with the Government of the UAE or the Governments of the Emirates or be, besides his office, a member of a board of directors of a commercial or financial company.
The Prime Minister may not hold, besides his post, more than an official post in an Emirate and shall give up all his other local official posts, if any.”
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