Plain-English summaries of the key statutes that shape commercial, financial, and civil life in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
The principal statute governing licensed banks in Jordan. It regulates bank licensing, capital adequacy, credit facilities, cheque handling, and the resolution of disputes between banks and their customers under the supervision of the Central Bank.
Read full text →Establishes the Central Bank of Jordan as the kingdom's monetary authority. It defines the Bank's powers over currency, monetary policy, foreign reserves, and supervision of financial institutions operating in the Jordanian market.
Read full text →Protects literary, artistic, and scientific works produced or published in Jordan. The law sets out the scope of authors' economic and moral rights, permitted exceptions, enforcement remedies, and criminal sanctions for copyright infringement.
Read full text →The former insurance statute, superseded by the Insurance Business Regulation Law No. 12 of 2021. Retained for historical reference; it governed the licensing and supervision of insurance and reinsurance companies under the former Insurance Commission.
Read full text →The current insurance statute (full English text, 111 articles). It places the licensing and supervision of insurers, reinsurers and insurance service providers under the Central Bank of Jordan, sets solvency and technical-provision requirements, and superseded the 1999 Act.
Read full text →Gives legal recognition to electronic records, signatures, and contracts in Jordan. The statute sets out the evidential weight of digital documents and the rules governing electronic commerce, online banking, and cross-border digital transactions.
Read full text →Jordan's first comprehensive data-protection statute, in force since 2023. It governs the collection, processing, and cross-border transfer of personal data, the rights of data subjects, consent and breach-notification duties, and the oversight role of the Personal Data Protection Council.
Read full text →Regulates public and private universities, community colleges, and research institutions in Jordan. It covers accreditation, degree recognition, academic governance, and the role of the Higher Education Council and Accreditation Commission.
Read full text →Criminalises money laundering and terrorist financing in Jordan and imposes reporting duties on banks, exchange houses, and other designated businesses. The law empowers the Anti-Money Laundering Unit to investigate suspicious transactions and freeze assets.
Read full text →Governs the licensing, operation, and liability of road, rail, and multimodal transport providers in Jordan. It addresses carrier obligations, cargo claims, passenger rights, and regulatory oversight by the Land Transport Regulatory Commission.
Read full text →The core statute regulating employment in Jordan. It covers contracts, wages, working hours, leave, termination, end-of-service benefits, and collective labour relations, including recent amendments on flexible work and anti-discrimination protections.
Read full text →The principal statute governing companies in Jordan: it sets out the six company forms (general and limited partnerships, limited liability, limited partnership in shares, private and public shareholding companies), their formation, capital, management, shareholder rights, mergers, and liquidation. Published here in full English text.
Read full text →The statute governing income tax in Jordan: it defines taxable income, exemptions and personal allowances, deductible expenses, the tax brackets for individuals and corporations, withholding and advance payments, filing and assessment, objections and the tax courts, and offences. Published here in full Arabic text.
Read full text (Arabic) →The statute governing civil litigation procedure in Jordan: it covers service of process, jurisdiction, the conduct of trials, pleadings and evidence, expert reports, provisional and precautionary measures (attachment, travel bans, receivership), judgments, costs, and the routes of appeal, cassation, third-party objection, and retrial. Published here in full Arabic text.
Read full text (Arabic) →The statute governing the enforcement of judgments and execution instruments in Jordan: it covers the Execution Department, executory deeds, the notice to pay and objections, attachment and sale of movable and immovable property, garnishment in the hands of third parties, imprisonment of the debtor and travel bans, and the distribution of execution proceeds among creditors. Published here in full Arabic text.
Read full text (Arabic) →The statute governing arbitration in Jordan: it covers the arbitration agreement, the constitution and challenge of the tribunal, the conduct of proceedings and evidence, the seat and language, interim measures, the making of the award and its time limit, correction and interpretation, and the action to set aside an award and its enforcement. Published here in full Arabic text.
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