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Ammon News - The Lower House on Monday passed an amendment to the Constitutional Court law in line with recent constitutional amendments.

The amendments to Articles 60 and 61 included easing the terms to contest or request an interpretation of a decision with the Constitutional Court through a vote of a quarter, not a majority, of any of the Senate or Lower House members.

During a session chaired by Speaker Abdul Karim Dughmi and attended by cabinet ministers, lawmakers amended the article on the terms for court membership, in accordance with the current designations of courts (the Higher Administrative Court), raising to 20 years the term of service required for a lawyer to be a court member.

The lawmakers annulled the clause on the appointment of three members every two years and settled on the appointment by the King of a minimum of nine members for six non-renewable years.

The amendment also authorized a court dealing with a case on the unconstitutionality of a law or system to directly refer the case to the Constitutional Court, not the Court of Cassation as was previously the case.