supporting woman among which is Law Number (35) of 2009 concerning treatment of the foreign
wife of the Bahraini man and the children of the Bahraini woman married to a non-Bahraini in the
manner that a Bahraini national is treated insofar as some set fees for governmental services in the
domains of health and education and residence fees on the other hand.
11. This is the case given that the disabled who are the children of a Bahraini woman experience health
conditions necessitating the provision of care and the rendering of services to them with a view to
fulfilling their special needs and becoming integrated rather than isolated, and enjoyers of rights
rather than being the object of care and pity, and being included rather than excluded, so as to
become able to contribute to building and advancing society.
12. Accordingly, the National Institution concurs with what is provided in a bill in terms of amending
Article (2) of Law Number (74) of 2006 concerning the care, rehabilitation and employment of the
disabled, given that it is in line with the provisions of the Constitution and the relevant international
human rights conventions.
13. Hence, Law Number (22) of 2017 was enacted amending Article (2) of Law Number (74) of 2006
concerning the care of, rehabilitation and employment of the disabled.
Second: Draft law amending some of the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC)
issued by Decree-Law Number (64) of 2002 (prepared in light of the draft law presented by the Shura
Council)
1. The National Institution submitted its advisory opinion concerning the draft law amending some
of the provisions of the Criminal Code of Procedure enacted by virtue of Decree-Law Number (64)
of 2002 (prepared in light of the law proposed by the Shura Council), comprising, in addition to the
preamble, of two articles, and it entails the addition of two new articles under numbers (21 bis), (21
bis [1]) to Chapter 11 of Part One of the Book One of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) enacted
by virtue of Decree-Law Number (46) of 2002.
2. The draft law according to the opinions of the competent quarters attached to the request for
perspectives aims to give due regard to the interests of the victims in crimes of manslaughter, injury
and error who is not interested in the punishment of the accused but is rather interested in receiving
compensation as reparation for injury and the damage sustained, and, moreover, those amendments
aim to expedite the procedures of adjudication of some cases through reducing the number of cases
heard before criminal courts by ending some lawsuits through conciliation.
3. Article (21 bis) as provided in the draft law states that “the victim of a crime or his special proxy, or
his heirs or their special proxy, in the offenses provided in the first and second paragraphs of Article
(339), and the first and second paragraphs of Article (343), and the victim of the offense referred to
in the first paragraph of Article (342) of the Penal Code shall prove conciliation with the accused
before public prosecution or the court as the case may be, and in other cases provided in the Law.
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