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The Ministry of Justice has launched a new service to assist elders, patients and the disabled who find difficulty in visiting the Ministry’s services centres.
The service called "Absher" (Give glad tiding) provide staff who will visit the beneficiaries at their home based on prior appointment to get their signature for processing their transactions. The service is offered at a fee.
The beneficiaries can take appointments during the morning working hours by providing their home address, the Ministry said on its Twitter account .
The Department of Authentication at the ministry will assign employees who could visit the beneficiaries at their homes at their convenience and make sure they are qualified to delegate someone else to replace them.
The service is also provided to people in prisons, reformation and punitive centers. The step has come following the issuance of new authentication law which has introduced new services and improved the quality of services, including authorizing the employees in charge of authentication to become “notary”. According to the ministry, similar authorization will be granted to lawyers and legal persons who are not working with the ministry to serve people especially in remote areas where elders and the disabled find difficulties to reach the ministry’s offices to process their papers.
Lawyers and other legal practitioners willing to join the initiative have been advised to register online visiting the “sak” service on the ministry’s website.
