HoR Secretariat Clarifies Procedures for Returning Senate after Decades

The General Secretariat of the House of Representatives (HoR) headed by Chancellor Mahmoud Fawzi issued a statement explaining the procedures for the return of the Senate after its cancellation several decades ago.

The statement indicated that a sufficient number of staff of the HoR will be transferred to the Senate.

Priority will be given for the staff who were previously transferred from the Shura Council, which was canceled years ago.

The transferred staff will maintain the same fiscal degrees and seniority they enjoy and will also keep salaries, allowances and bonuses, and all the financial rights assigned to them in their previous posts.

The statement pointed out that the Senates Law regulated the procedures that result from the return of the council.

The transfer will be completed by an application submitted to the Secretary-General of the HoR within a period not exceeding seven days from the date of enforcement of this law, and the applicant will be granted a receipt indicating the application.

All the assets of the canceled Shura Council will be transferred to the Senate. The assets had been transferred to the HoR including the Shura Council building in Cairo and its equipment.

A committee will be formed under the chairmanship of the Minister in charge of Parliamentary Councils Affairs. The committee makes up Head of the Central Agency for Organization and Administration, Secretary-General of the HoR and General-Secretary of the HoR, and a representative of the Ministry of Finance.

This committee is concerned with examining the requests referred to in the first paragraph of this article. It determines the employees and the assets to be transferred to the Senate.

It takes the executive procedures for that in accordance with the rules that is in effect, all within a period not exceeding one month from the date of the implementation of this law.

The committee also assumes all financial and administrative competencies vested in the councils office and its president, except for the appointment of the Secretary-General of the Senate, until the first president of the council is elected and the office of the council is formed.