the preservation of general revenues while ensuring effective and highquality service delivery.
6. The Code of Conduct also highlighted that the members shall not solicit,
accept or take any gifts, directly or indirectly, to perform a task entrusted
to them, or refrain from performing it. Members shall not accept any
benefits that may have an impact on the exercise of their tasks, the
performance of their duties, or on their decisions. In addition, members
shall refrain from accepting a promise of such things and from placing
themselves under any financial or other obligation that may have such an
effect.
7. To implement Paragraph (a) of Article No (5) of the Law establishing the
NIHR, which states that, “Members of the Council of Commissioners
shall be appointed by a Royal Order,” Royal Order No (22) of 2021 was
issued appointing the members of the Council of Commissioners of the
NIHR. The Royal Order took effect on 9 May 2021, and included the
appointment of 11 members, of which four were appointed as full-time
members, five as part-time members, and two members represented the
legislative authority from the House of Representatives and the Shura
Council. From among the full-time and part-time members, five women
members were appointed by the Royal Order, of which one is a full-time
member. The term of membership for all members is four years, subject
to renewal.
8. In implementation of Paragraph (b) of Article No (5) of the NIHR’s
establishment Law stipulating that the Chairperson and Vice Chairperson
are to be elected from among the members of the Council of
Commissioners in the first meeting. The Council of Commissioners held
its first procedural meeting on Monday, 10 May 2021, during which the
Chairperson and the Vice Chairperson were elected. Engineer Ali Ahmed
Alderazi won the Chair of the Council of Commissioners by acclamation,
while Mr. Khaled Abdulaziz Alshaer won the position of Vice Chairperson.8
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Resume of members- in Arabic https://www.nihr.org.bh/Organisation/CommissionerMain
https://www.nihr.org.bh/EN/Organisation/CommissionerMain in English
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