Cancelled by Article 3 of Fed. Law (14) of 2008.

The Ministry of Justice will supervise the administration of the official gazette and it will be responsible for preparations of printing it out as well as circulation and collecting sale revenues.

1. Upon a suggestion from the Minister of Justice, the Cabinet shall issue a resolution regulating circulation of the official gazette, selling price of its issues and value of subscription and announcement therein.

2. The Cabinet shall be entitled to assign the Minister of Justice with the authorities prescribed in item (1) of this article or make any amendments on the resolution referred to.

 

Any new legislation issued after the activation of this law will be considered known in all over the U.A.E. 30 days after publication in the official gazette. This period may be extended or shortened by a plain phrasing in the new legislation.

The official gazette will be published in Arabic. Some of the articles may be translated into a foreign language.

An official newspaper of the United Arab Emirates will be established under the name of "the official gazette", in which any legislation issued by the state will be published. Also, any act, decision, order, announcement, agreement or any document that should be published as decided by one of the specialized authorities of the state. Commercials of the bodies of the state could be published for the benefit of individuals; prices will be set by the public trust of the Ministry of Justice.

This law shall be promulgated in the official gazette and shall be in effect as of date of issuance thereof.

Without prejudice to any more severe penalty stipulated in any other law, whoever publicly, in public venues, or places available for public, commits any of the following shall be punished with imprisonment for a period of not less than (10) ten years and not exceeding (25) twenty-five years, and a fine not less than (500,000) five hundred thousand dirhams:

1. Drops, damages, or offends the Union’s Flag in any manner.

2. Drops, damages, or offends – in any manner – the flag of any the Emirates members of the Union, the flag of the Cooperative Council for Gulf Arab States, or the flag of any of the other states.

Clause (1) of this Article shall be considered as a crime against the State’s security.

 

Subject to the provisions of Article (1) of this Law, the approved specification related to the Union’s Flag, its pole, rules of raising it, and the conditions of printing, distributing, and using it shall be determined pursuant to a Cabinet Resolution.

The flag of the United Arab Emirates shall have the following form, size and colours:

Rectangle in which its length is double its width, divided into four rectangular sections, the first one is red which forms the flag side near the flag pole which its length is which the flag width which equals quarter of the flag length; the other three sections form the rest of the flag, they are horizontal, equal and parallel, the higher one is green; the medium is until and the lower is black.