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Laws and Regulations

The Land Transport Affairs is responsible for overseeing all of the Kingdom of Bahrain’s laws, regulations and procedures pertaining to the land transportation sector.

Last Updated Date:24-10-2021

Laws
Regulation
Notices

Laws	Description
Traffic Law Number 23 for the Year 2014 – Article 17	Specifies that the Ministry within the transportation sector is responsible to regulate and manage the public transportation sector.
Traffic Law Number 23 for the Year 2014 – Article 18	Specifies that the Ministry within the transportation sector is responsible to develop and issue the regulations and ministerial orders to regulate the public transportation sector.

Regulations	Description
Ministerial Order Number 11 for the Year 2015	Outlines a list of public transport licenses and the overall requirements and conditions of operations.
Ministerial Order Number 22 for the Year 2016	Specifies the regulations of Internal Transport for Passengers licenses, International Transport for Passengers licenses, Internal Transport of Tourists licenses and International Tourism Transport licenses.
Ministerial Order Number 1 for the Year 2017	Specifies the regulation of taxi and call taxi licenses for companies and establishments
Ministerial Order Number 8 for the Year 2017	Specifies the amendments related to Ministerial Order No. 22 for the year 2017
Ministerial Order Number 12 for the year 2017	Ministerial Order Number 12 for the year 2017 amending some provisions of the Public Transport Licensing Regulations issued by Ministerial Order Number 11 for the year 2015
Ministerial Order Number 7 for the year 2018 of Goods Transport	Specifies the regulations of internal and International transport of Goods licenses
Ministerial Order Number 10 for the year 2018	Ministerial Order Number 10 for the year 2018 amending some provisions of the Public Transport Licensing Regulations issued by Ministerial Order Number 11 for the year 2015
Ministerial Order Number 12 for the year 2018	Ministerial Order Number 12 for the year 2018 that specifies the regulation of Luxury Vehicles Rental With Driver
Ministerial Order Number 13 for the year 2020	Ministerial Order Number 13 for the year 2020 that specifies the regulations of vehicles rental.
Ministerial Order 7 for the year 2021	Ministerial Order Number 7 for the year 2021 allows the usage of vehicles not older than six year for rental

Notice	Description
Safety, durability and environmental safety of goods transport vehicles	Requirements guide for safety, durability and environmental safety of goods transport vehicles

Last Updated Date:24-10-2021

Civil Aviation
Land Transport
Ports and Maritime
Telecommunications

41,591Total Aircraft Movement in FIR , Apr 2023
608,771Total Passengers, Apr 2023
29,397Total Cargo and Mail, Apr 2023

32,579Monthly Ridership, Apr 2023
81,348,546Total Passengers (Feb 2015 – Apr 2023)
977,355Total Monthly Ridership (April 2023)

22,236General Cargo, Apr 2023
30,316Container Throughput, Apr 2023
61Total Vessels, Apr 2023

100Percentage of Population covered by 5G Network (2022)
83Percent of households passed by fiber-optic broadband network (2022)
100Percent of businesses passed by fiber-optic broadband network (2022)

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