LAW NO. (15) OF 1971Â
THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURES LAW
We, Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Deputy Ruler of Qatar, after reviewing the provisional statute of government in Qatar , in particular on articles (21) , (23) , (37) , and (73) thereof, and the draft law of criminal procedures submitted by the Council of Ministers,
We have decided the following law:
Issuance Articles (1-2)
Chapter One: General Provisions and Definitions (1-4)
Chapter Two: In the investigation (5-9)
Chapter Three: In Communications and Complaints (10-15)
Chapter Seven: Arrest and Follow-up Procedures (16-32)
Chapter Five: Preventive Confinement (33-35)
Chapter Six: Announcement of Attendance and Arrest Warrant (36-48)
A- Announcing in attendance (36-42)
B- The warrant of arrest (43-45)
C- Announcement of evading arrest by public announcement and seizure of his property (46-48)
Chapter Seven: Presentation of Documents and Other Things and Inspection (49-60)
Chapter Eight: Litigations, Accusation and Trial Procedures (61-109)
1- Litigants (61-65)
2- Submitting the lawsuit (66-67)
3- Trial Procedures (68-109)
Chapter Nine: In the Brief Trial (110-113)
Chapter Ten: Opposition and Appeal (Added by Law No. 3 of 1989). (113-120)
Chapter Eleven: In Evidence (121-135)
Chapter Twelve: On Provisional Release on Bail or Personal Undertaking (136-143)
Chapter Thirteen: In the Procedures for Certain Crimes against the Judiciary (144-145)
Chapter Fourteen: In the Loans (146-148)
Chapter Fifteen: In Previous Provisions of Innocence or Conviction (149-156)
Chapter Sixteen: In Enforcing Judgments (157-161)
Chapter Seventeen: Preventive Measures (162-172)
Chapter Eighteen: The Disposition of Seized Things and Money (173-178)
Chapter Nineteen: Pardon (179-180)
Chapter Twenty: The Expiration of the Criminal Case (181-184)
Chapter Twenty One: Falling the Punishment Over Time and the Death of the Convict (185-190)
Chapter Twenty Two: Rehabilitation (191-205)
Chapter Twenty Three: Miscellaneous Provisions (206-208)