AMMAN —
Minister of Justice Ahmad
Al-Ziyadat said that the number of those wanted for judicial implementation of
court rulings had reached 148,000 on April 1, according to Jo24.
اضافة اعلان
During his intervention at the
Lower House Legal Committee to discuss the draft law amending the judicial implementation,
Ziyadat said that the law aims to stop debtor imprisonment.
The Lower House had referred the amendments to its
Legal Committee.
Minister of State for Legal Affairs Wafa Bani Mustafa said
that the amended law was seen by the government and sent to the Lower House on
November 8, 2021.
The most important amendment to the law, she said,
is that it stipulates that debtors who owe less than JD5,000, as well as their
close relatives, should not be imprisoned.
Bani Mustafa said that there were consultations
regarding the amendments to this law, as well as committees that met with
multiple parties and all stakeholders.
“We are talking about more than 13 sectors that
participated in multiple meetings,” Bani Mustafa said.
At the end of 2020, Prime Minister
Bisher Al-Khasawneh
announced the formation of a committee consisting of 16 people, representing
all concerned parties, to review the provisions of the Implementation Law No.
25 of the year 2007, to resolve problematic issues in such a way as to preserve
the creditor’s rights and take into account the debtor’s circumstances.
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