these test and registrations and for engineers working in the consulting firms only.

The domestic offices of engineering consulatncy firms must be owned by Qatari natural or juristic persons and the engineers working in the office must be registered and have the necessary expertise to practise the profession. The office is bound to appoint one or more responsible engineer who is competent to give opinions on the engineering and technical matters and sign and adopt the designs, contracts and engineering and technical works undertaken by the domestic and international engineering consultancy offices. The registration of the companies established by natural and juristic persons to practice the profession requires that the share of the Qatari partners in the capital must not be less than (51 percent) and non-Qatari partners must be engineers registered in the register of engineers or they are from the offices working in the field of consulting engineering.