United Arab Emirates Constitution
- - Importation of arms and ammunitions except for use bythe armed forces or the security forces of any Emirate;
- -Other aviation matters that do not lie within the federal executive jurisdiction;
- -Delimitation of the territorial waters and regulation of navigation in the high seas; and
- -Regulation of the free financial zones, the manner in which they are established, and how far they are excluded from scope of application of the federal legislative provisions[1].
Article (122)
The Emirates shall have jurisdiction in all the matters not conferred exclusively upon the federal authorities as provided in the two preceding articles.
- ↑ Article (121) was amended by Constitutional Amendment 1/2009. The previous text reads as follows:
“Without prejudice to the provisions of the preceding Article, the UAE has exclusive legislative jurisdiction in the following matters:
- - Labor relations and social security;
- - Ownership of real properties and expropriation for public interest;
- - Extradition of criminals;
- - Banks;
- - All types of insurance;
- - Protection of agricultural and animal wealth;
- - Major legislation relating to the penal, civil, and commercial codes; company law, civil and criminal procedure codes;
- - Protection of intellectual, technical and industrial property rights; copyright; and printing and publishing rights;
- - Importation of arms and ammunitions except for use by the armed forces or the security forces of any Emirate;
- - Other aviation matters that do not lie within the federal executive jurisdiction; and
- - Delimitation of the territorial waters and regulation of navigation in the high seas.”
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