{"id":411,"date":"2025-08-11T15:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/?page_id=411"},"modified":"2026-01-16T14:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:35:12","slug":"introduction-to-legislature","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/about-oman\/legislature\/introduction-to-legislature\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cs-content\" class=\"cs-content\"><div class=\"x-section e411-e1 mbf-0\"><div class=\"x-row e411-e2 mbf-1 mbf-2\"><div class=\"x-row-inner\"><div class=\"x-col e411-e3 mbf-3\"><div class=\"x-text x-content e411-e4-v0 mbf-4 mbf-5 fm-comp fm-text-intro\">Under the Basic Law of the State (Oman\u2019s constitution) the Oman Council (Oman\u2019s legislature) is made up of Majlis A\u2019Dawla (the State Council) and Majlis A\u2019Shura (the Shura Council).<\/div><div class=\"x-text x-content e411-e5-v0 mbf-5 mbf-6 fm-comp fm-text-standard\"><p>The Council of Oman represents a practical embodiment of the concept of Shura which values the power of genuine dialogue and reflects Omanis\u2019 belief in the power of consensus and collaboration. It represents a modernisation of long-standing Omani social and cultural values.<\/p>\n<p>The Council of Oman is responsible for approving or amending draft laws, discussing development plans and the state\u2019s general budget. It also has the right to propose draft laws.<\/p>\n<p>Operating under the Oman Council Law, promulgated by <a https:=\"\" staging=\"\" ofmdev=\"\" com=\"\" 10022=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/10022\/\">Royal Decree No. 7\/2021<\/a>, both the State Council and the Shura Council have a legal personality, with financial and administrative independence. Both are based in Muscat.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the Basic Law of the State (Oman\u2019s constitution) the Oman Council (Oman\u2019s legislature) is made up of Majlis A\u2019Dawla (the State Council) and Majlis A\u2019Shura (the Shura Council).The Council of Oman represents a practical embodiment of the concept of Shura which values the power of genuine dialogue and reflects Omanis\u2019 belief in the power of consensus and collaboration. It &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/about-oman\/legislature\/introduction-to-legislature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5018,"parent":381,"menu_order":32,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-oman","category-legislature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34201,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/411\/revisions\/34201"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}