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Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Jordan's Senate President Taher al-Masri decided to hold a joint session between the Senate and Lower House of Parliament on Wednesday aimed to resolve differences regarding the Landlords and Tenants law and the Judiciary Independence law.

The Senate had differed with the Lower House over the Landlords and Tenants law, considering as "unconstitutional" the deputies' decision in May to scrap the existing mechanism to decide the raise in rent fees of leased properties before August 31, 2000, and replace it with a percentage to be decided by the Cabinet, despite the government's opposition to this change in the vital law, according to a report by the Jordan Times in May.


The existing law applies the so-called “rent value of similar property”, principle, which allows courts looking into rent-related disputes to determine a fair raise in the value of the rent by taking the current rent fee of a similar property in a similar area as the base of calculation.

Instead, the changes the lawmakers endorsed to Article 5 of the law mandate the Cabinet to decide a universal “fair” raise percentage every five years.

The Senate had considered the decision unconstitutional, which gives jurisdiction to the parliament to amend the articles to the draft presented by the government.

The Lower House had also insisted to return the Law on Judicial Independence back to the government for amending the draft.

The parliament is scrambling to conclude deliberations and pass vital legislations, including the Social Security Law, Landlords and Tenants, and the Judicial Independence laws before the parliament's extra-ordinary session adjourns on August 10.

The 17th Parliament's ordinary session reconvenes on October 10, according to the constitution.