Education

Article 538

If the force majeure prevented the submission of the bill of exchange or the plea in the prescribed deadlines, these deadlines shall be extended. The holder has to notify without delay the person who endorsed him the bill of exchange with force majeure, and he has to prove this notice with a date and his signature on the bill of exchange or any related paper, and the notifications shall range until they reach the drawer. The holder after the removal of the force majeure shall submit the bill of exchange for acceptance or payment and the plea if it is necessary.

If the force majeure continues for more than thirty days reckoned from the day of maturity, the recourse can be done against those who are committed without a need to submit the bill of exchange or the plea.

If the bill of exchange is payable after the access or after a period of information, the deadline of thirty days shall be applicable from the date on which the holder notified the person who endorsed the bill of exchange to him with force majeure even if this date happens before the end of dates of submission of bill of exchange. The period of information increases over the deadline of thirty days if the bill of exchange is payable after a period of access.

A force majeure does not include the matters related to the holder of the bill of exchange or a person who has been entrusted to submit it or the plea.

Article 539

The holder of bill of exchange, who submitted a plea of non-payment, can sign an attachment on the movable properties of drawer, acceptor, endorser, reserve guarantor and others who are committed to the bill of exchange, taking into account the procedures established in the Code of Civil and Commercial Procedure regarding attachments.

Article 540

Anyone who has a right of recourse against the other, who is committed to the bill of exchange, can take his right by withdrawing a new bill of exchange on one of his guarantors. This new bill of exchange shall be payable after the access and in the homeland of the guarantor, unless required otherwise.

Article 541

The bill of exchange of recourse includes the amounts set out in the articles (532) and (533) of this law in addition to the commission and any other fee prescribed by law.

If the drawer of a bill of exchange of recourse is himself the holder, its amount shall be determined on the basis which determines the value of the bill of exchange payable after access and is drawn from the place where the original bill of exchange is payable to the place where is the home of the guarantor.

If the drawer of a bill of exchange of recourse is one of the endorser, its amount shall be determined on the basis which determines the value of the bill of exchange payable after access and is drawn from the place where is the home of the drawer of the bill of exchange of recourse to the place where is the home of the guarantor.

Article 542

If there are several bills of exchange of recourse, the drawer of the original bill of exchange or any of its endorser can be demanded about the value of one bill of exchange of recourse only.

2-2 Intervention

Article 543

The drawer of the bill of exchange, its endorser and reserve guarantor can appoint someone who accepts or pay it if it is necessary. The acceptance of the bill of exchange or its payment can be done by any person intervening in the interest of a debtor of it and he shall be targeted to recourse.

The intervener can be a third party or the drawee if the bill of exchange was not accepted or any person who is committed under the bill of exchange.

The intervener must notify the person for whom the intervention has done, during the two working days following the date of intervention, otherwise he shall be responsible, if necessary, to compensate the damage caused by his negligence provided that compensation shall not exceed the amount of the bill of exchange.

Ziyaad Ibn Abeeh, the Umayyad statesman, asked those who were sitting with him, “Who leads the most blissful life?” They replied, “The Commander of the Believers does!” He said, “No. The man who leads the most blissful life is a Muslim man who is married to a Muslim woman and they have enough sustenance, and each of them is happy and satisfied with their partner! This man does not know us and we do not know him!”

Islam attaches much importance to attending mosques for congregational prayers, which are the best way to offer all five daily obligatory prayers. Hence, the Prophet (peace be upon him) urged his followers to attend congregational prayers in mosques, using every method to make them eager to do so. He is authentically reported to have said: “As one walks to the mosque, every time he lifts one foot to make a step, he is credited with one good deed, a sin is removed from him and his standing (with God) is raised one step.”

Twenty-seven high school seniors and 13 juniors celebrated the last day of classes of the three-week Summer College Preview Programme at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar with a festive closing ceremony.

The Community College of Qatar (CCQ) will continue to receive registration documents from the first group of selected full-time students until August 18, 2010, officials have announced.

The necessary documents including original Qatari ID, official high school diploma/certificate, and a health certificate should be submitted at the Information Centre on the first floor of the SEC building in Al Dafna, the officials said.

“We’re extremely happy with the diversity of the first group of students,” said CCQ Officials. “Both parents and their children received the results of the ACT tests and started the process of registering for classes.”

As previously announced, CCQ Admissions Office has assured all those who wish to join CCQ that Compass Placement test will be offered at CCQ beginning October 2010.

The CCQ officials emphasised that these were not pass/fail tests. They were tools to place students in classes in which they will be most successful. Students planning to take the tests are encouraged to improve their English and mathematics skills through study and visit the ACT Compass website — http://act.org/compass — for practice tests.

The time and location for those students who have already taken the tests and wish to re-take them will be announced at a later date.

The CCQ is the first community college in the region. It was established with the aim of providing distinctive educational opportunities as part of the state’s efforts to develop the education system in alignment with Qatar’s national vision 2030, which seeks to develop a highly trained and competitive workforce that will lead sustainable development efforts.

Officials at the Higher Education Commission at the Supreme Education Council have said they would start receiving scholarship applications from high school graduates to all universities included in their lists.

The Guidance Office and the Professional Development Office at the Higher Education Commission have recently issued a students guide for scholarship programmes and higher education services in order to acquaint students with the programmes, scholarships and grants of Hamad bin Khalifa and Tamim bin Hamad, which are provided by the Higher Education Commission.

Best-selling children’s books translated into Arabic by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing (BQFP) sold out at the world’s most famous luxury department store, Harrods, just two weeks after going on sale.

The sessions of the Arab Youth Forum that was held in the Syrian capital of Damascus came to an end last week, bringing the curtain down on heated discussions on participation and the empowerment of Arab youth.