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Law No. 2 of 1975 on the Leasing of Places and Buildings (Repealed)

Law Summary Record Type: LawNumber: 2Date: 11/02/1975 Corresponding to 30/01/1395 HijriNumber of Articles: 34Status: Canceled

Official Gazette :Issue: 2Offcial Journal Issue Publication Date: 01/01/1975 Corresponding to 18/12/1394 HijriPage from: 813

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b.Termination after the expiration of contract ter (30-30)

30 Article (Repealed)

(As amended pursuant to Law No. 5 of 1976)

The lessor may not, even at the expiration of the lease term, require the lessee to vacate the leased property except for one of the following reasons:

1.Where the lessor intends to demolish the building and to rebuild it, or wants to extend its territory or add to it, in order to increase its exploitation or extend or modify it. The application of this provision shall require:

A.No agreement prevents that.

B.Not possible to conduct these operations or part of them while the lessee still staying in the leased property.

C.Such operations shall not be conducted on the leased property only without the whole building.

D.The lessor shall start these operations within six months from the date of evacuation, if delayed without an acceptable excuse the lessee shall have the right to occupy the leased property again.

E.The lessor shall actually have the necessary permits from the competent body.

Where the lessor does not intend to conduct the evacuation and the works of expansion or addition results in partial or temporary prejudice tothe use of the leased property, the lessee may request termination of the agreement.

2.Where the lessee owns a house suitable for residence, and such house has vacated or he could evacuate it, or if the lessee owned or built during a lease term a housesuitable for residence, then he rented it to others.

3.Where the lessor intends to live in the building by himself or by his spouse or a parent or one of his children for whom there is no suitable alternative residence.

4.Where the leased property is located within the lessor’s private abode and he intends to occupy it by himself or by his spouse or a parent or one of his children.

5.Where the property is leased to non-Qatari as a domicile to practice commercial or non-commercial profession and the Qatari lessor wants to occupy it by himself to practice any profession.

In the last three cases, if the lessor did not occupy, without an acceptable excuse, the leased property within three months from the date of evacuation and he did not continue to occupy it for a period at least one year, the lessee shall have the right to occupy the leased property again, or to claim compensation not exceeding the equivalent rent of six months.

In all cases, the lessee shall be given a deadline for evacuation of not more than three months.