House amends army law on non-officer personnel

AMMAN — The Lower House on Sunday passed the 2019 amendments to the law governing the service of Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army (JAF) personnel who are not commissioned officers.

The amended law regulates a number of job-related issues including secondment, changes in some job titles, leaves of absence related to academic study and unpaid vacations, in addition to modifying allowances paid to civilian employees of the JAF, among others, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

MPs also referred the 2018 Audit Bureau Report to the Finance Committee and the Public-Private Partnership Law to the Economy and Investment Committee, while the Legal Committee received the amended bills of the Civil Defence Law, the Arab Convention for the Prevention and Combatting of Human Cloning 2019 for ratification and the bill of cancelling the 2019 law of land records.