Legislation & Legal Opinion Commission (LLOC) in cooperation with the Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA), has launched Bahrain Legislations Mobile App.
The App aimed at facilitating access to several legal eServices. The launch of the App reflects the continuous national efforts towards technological initiatives and reinforcing the culture of legal awareness among the society. It is available on the eGovernment App Store bahrain.bh/apps.
Bahrain Legislation App was launched during a press conference in the presence of the LLOC President Counselor Nawaf Abdullah Hamza and iGA Deputy Chief Executive of eTransformation Dr. Zakariya Ahmed Al Khajah.
The counselor reaffirmed the commission’s commitment to develop its eServices that promote and cultivate legal culture among all sectors in the society with the aim of consolidating the principles of the Constitution and the rule of law in Bahrain, which highlighting the civilizational shift in Bahraini legislation in the prosperous era of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, and the follow-up of His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister.
He pointed out that the application of Bahrain Legislations App is a legal eChannel that facilitates access to a list of legal eServices, such as searching and reviewing legislation and decisions issued within the Kingdom of Bahrain, treaties and agreements, legal principles issued by the Commission, and other services that are of interest to the concerned stakeholders.
He stressed that the launch reflects the commission’s keenness to reinforce legal services provided to the public and making them available through user-friendly Mobile App and facilitate users’ access to them, to be a main reference for legal information needed by all concerned users beside the official website of the Commission.
Counselor Hamza said that the application allows user to view the Constitution of the Kingdom and the National Charter in both Arabic and English. In addition to an advanced search facility to view 18081 legal tools issued in Bahrain and the ability to make the most of the search process.
He explained that the search feature in Bahrain Legislations App allows the user to search in the titles of the issued tools or in the texts of legal tools, pointing out that the search tool is available for all issued legislations, in addition to the search engine service is also available for legislation translated into English, i.e. 96 legal tools available so far.
The App also provides the updated information available in the Official Gazette as soon as its been issued, in addition to legislation translated into English, which will be constantly updated. LLOC is currently working on translating all legislation and legal tools in action since the issuance of the Official Gazette since 1948.
iGA Deputy Chief Executive of eTransformation reaffirmed that the App launching comes as a reflection of the on-going cooperation between government entities and their efforts to achieve the digital transformation for the government services and making them available to the public across multiple channels.
He stressed that such initiatives come in line with the national strategy and directives to achieve the comprehensive Digital Transformation of government services within the Kingdom and in various sectors including Law and Justice.
Al Khajah praised the continuous support of the government led by HRH Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, and the directives of Interior Minister and Information and Communications Technology Ministerial Committee Chairman General Shaikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa, in employing ICT and digital transformation in government services, and providing them through eChannels to facilitate their access to citizens and residents in line with the eGovernment program that supports sustainable development.
Source: Bahrain News Agency