United Arab Emirates

Table of Contents:

• General Right to Vote
• Exclusion or Potential Exclusion Based on Disability

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Article 85 states:

• (1) Every person who has reached the age of majority in possession of his mental powers and who has not been placed under a restriction shall be of full capacity to exercise his rights laid down in this law and the laws deriving from it.

 

Article 86 states:

No person who lacks discretion by reason of youth, imbecility or insanity shall be competent to exercise his civil rights.

 

Excerpt from the Civil Code as amended by Federal Law No. 1 of 1987 (1987)

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Article 85 states:

• (1) Every person who has reached the age of majority in possession of his mental powers and who has not been placed under a restriction shall be of full capacity to exercise his rights laid down in this law and the laws deriving from it.

 

Article 86 states:

No person who lacks discretion by reason of youth, imbecility or insanity shall be competent to exercise his civil rights.

 

Excerpt from the Civil Code as amended by Federal Law No. 1 of 1987 (1987)