62

While in office, the Prime Minister, the Deputies of the Prime Minister, or any Federal Minister may not practice any professional, commercial or financial activity or enter into any commercial transactions with the Federal Government or the Governments of the Emirates or hold, besides his office, more than one official post in the Government of an Emirate. * This article was amended by Constitutional Amendment No. (1) dated 10/02/2009. The previous article reads as follows: “While in office, the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, or any Federal Minister may not practice any professional, commercial or financial activity or enter into any commercial transactions with the Federal Government or the Governments of the Emirates or be, besides his office, a member of a board of directors of a commercial or financial company. The Prime Minister may not hold, besides his post, more than onen official post in an Emirate and shall give up all his other local official posts, if any.”