Algeria abolishes original document copies legalization in municipalities and Dairas
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Interior and Local Groups Ministry abolished the obligation to authenticate copies of official documents, as the same services prepared a new executive decree that will come into force next week, and strictly prohibited public administrations to require documents that are certified by the municipalities.
Concluded action committee formed by the Minister of the Interior and Local groups last week in the context of improving the public service, held a meeting yesterday, to set up a new executive decree regulating the work of the civil status and reduces the extraction and civil status documents of public administrations procedures.
Meeting of work that was formed by the Interior and Local groups Minister last week, in the context of improving the public service, which was held on Monday, agreed to set up a new executive decree that is regulating the work of civil status and ease measure of the extraction of civil status documents at public administrations.
Interior Ministry strictly banned, as stipulated in the decree, which will go into effect next week, administration agents at municipalities and dairas, requiring the legalization of the various documents copies, which will inevitably lead to the abolition of the service of legalization of the documents in the civil status services across the national territory.
It is known that the copies are “unrecognized” by various public bodies and departments before the issuance of this decree, in order to avoid falling into the problems that are relating to fraud, as the requirement to legalize copies of the documents for recognition and make it as an official document to compensate the original document.
New resolution, which is part of the strategy that is taken by the Interior Ministry to improve public service and relieve the burden of extracting the documents on the citizen, based on the principle of good faith, which is provided for in the various charters and laws, which believes that the accused is innocent until proven guilty, arguing that there is no reason to keep the condition of legalization for the recognition of replica copies.