Legal Affairs Directorate

The Legal Consultation Section provides legal opinions on matters and transactions referred to it and contributes to the preparation and review of draft laws, regulations, and instructions related to the Department’s work.

• Providing legal opinions on matters referred to the Department, ensuring the accuracy and validity of legal opinions and recommendations, and submitting them in their final form to the competent authority within the Department for approval before sending them to the relevant entities.
• Providing legal opinions on daily transactions referred by the Department’s directorates.
• Strengthening the Department’s role in conducting legal research and studies in the various legal, judicial, and jurisprudential fields related to the nature of the Department’s work, reviewing related reports and recommendations, selecting the appropriate studies, and supervising their implementation.
• Preparing draft laws, regulations, and instructions related to the Department, as needed.
• Identifying gaps in applicable laws, regulations, and instructions through their practical application, and proposing the necessary amendments.
• Performing any other duties assigned by the Director of the Directorate.

The Cases and Guarantees Section follows up on court decisions, legal pleadings, attachments, mortgages, and guarantees related to the Department’s work.

• Implementing court decisions related to liquidation cases.
• Preparing statements of claim, statements of defense, and pleadings.
• Registering and releasing attachments and mortgages.
• Reviewing attachments and mortgages for sale purposes.
• Registering guarantees for committees formed under the applicable Companies Law.
• Liquidating guarantees.
• Performing any other duties assigned by the Director of the Directorate.

The Committees Section follows up on the formation and work of committees established under the Companies Law and supports the permanent committee concerned with technical and legal matters. A permanent committee is formed under the chairmanship of the Assistant Controller General for Technical Affairs, with the Director of Legal Affairs and the Director of Company Audit as members. Its recommendations are submitted to the Controller General, and the Head of the Committees Section serves as the committee secretary. The committee undertakes the following duties:

• Forming merger and legal status conversion committees.
• Forming audit committees.
• Reviewing reports of committees formed under the Companies Law.
• Forming committees to verify the implementation of audit committee recommendations.
• Following up on the formation of committees and the completion of their work and submitting related reports to the Controller General.
• Performing any other duties assigned by the Director of the Directorate.

The Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Section follows up on compliance procedures, verifies beneficial ownership, and coordinates with the relevant authorities on matters related to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing.

• Verifying compliance procedures related to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing instructions through financial audits of companies, and referring suspected cases to the Legal Affairs Directorate.
• Verifying the beneficial owners of registered companies.
• Responding to all inquiries and notifications
• Carrying out all work related to Jordan’s mutual evaluation process in the field of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing.
• Participating in the preparation of Jordan’s technical compliance reports on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing by responding to the technical compliance questionnaire.
• Responding to the effectiveness assessment questionnaire, which requires providing sufficient information on the effectiveness of Jordan’s system for combating money laundering and terrorist financing crimes.
• Participating in the preparation of the national strategy for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing.
• Participating in amendments to the instructions for implementing obligations set out in Security Council resolutions, as the Department is a member of the technical committee responsible for implementing Security Council resolutions.
• Participating in specialized training courses on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing.
• Performing any other duties assigned by the Director of the Directorate.