Parliament studies the old rental law

Eng. Ibrahim Abu Ouf – Chairman of Housing committee in the Parliament- declared the formation of listening committees, during the next three weeks to study the modifications required of the old rental law.

The committees will include, members of parliament housing committee, related public legal personalities, and some landlords and renters, as this committee aims at studying the suggested updates to the old rentals law, in order to achieve a fair solution that guarantees a safe relation between landlords and renters, as the draft law is expected to be presented to the parliament during its second round that begins by next August.

Abu Ouf clarified that, after the formation of this committee, it will be held every two weeks, till the end of the first parliamentary round next July, and he added that the committee will discuss – during the next round – the decision of restoring lands rented by the state to –according to the old law- their owners, besides modifying Dr. Ganzoury’s decision that was issued in 1997, to free the relation between owners and state.

Abu Auf said that this law has created a congestion status in the Egyptian street, as owner feels unfairness and waste of rights, and owner feels worried of being dismissed by the owner, beside the absence of any entity talking about this issue to avoid the public rage, and that what made the committee to think that the remaining parliamentary 3 months are not enough to issue the new law, and it decided to study the law in this period and present it to the parliament by the beginning of its next round.