articolo tratto da Gulf News, 14/3/2006 
La tanto attesa legge sulla proprietà è stata emanata ieri da Sua Altezza lo sceicco Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice-presidente e Primo Ministro degli Emirati Arabi Uniti, nonché governatore di Dubai. 
La legge dice che ora anche gli stranieri possono vedersi intestata la proprietà di beni immobili a Dubai. 
La legge n.7 del 2006 determina che il pieno diritto di proprietà sia riservato esclusivamente a cittadini degli EAU e degli stati membri del Consiglio di Cooperazione del Golfo (Gulf Cooperation Council)*, a società le cui quote siano detenute interamente da questi, e a società pubbliche ad azionariato diffuso. 
Allo stesso tempo si afferma che anche i cittadini stranieri, previo consenso del Governatore, possono acquisire il pieno diritto di proprietà in alcune aree specifiche della città. In queste zone predefinite il reggente concederà o la piena proprietà o l’acquisto dell’immobile in diritto di superficie per 99 anni. Tuttavia acquistando da un costruttore privato un immobile sito su terreno privatizzato (la cui proprietà è già intestata al costruttore), ciò non è necessario. 
La legge è composta da 11 capitoli, con 29 articoli complessivi che affrontano la definizione, le norme generali ed il sistema di attuazione del locale regime di proprietà, nonché le giurisdizioni degli uffici competenti in materia. 
Contemporaneamente si prevede l’istituzione di un ufficio per la registrazione e trascrizione dei diritti di proprietà presso l’Agenzia del Territorio di Dubai; qui saranno raccolti i registri immobiliari, il cui contenuto avrà valore supremo e indubitabile, salvo nel caso di contraffazioni. Un condominio composto da più appartamenti verrà iscritto nei registri come un ente unico, ma ciascuna unità abitativa indipendente vedrà riportate informazioni identificative specifiche, tra cui il nome della persona o la denominazione della società a cui la proprietà è intestata.

Riportiamo qui di seguito alcuni articoli contenuti nella legge di cui sopra, nel testo originale in inglese. 
 
Article No.3 
Provisions of this law are applied to properties located in Dubai. 
Article No.4 
Freehold is limited to UAE and GCC citizens and companies wholly owned by them, as well as public shareholding companies. 
The law also stipulates that, upon approval of Dubai's Ruler, non-UAE nationals may be given the right to own properties in some parts of Dubai, designated by the Ruler, on a freehold basis, or a 99-year lease. 
Article No.5 
The original documents and judicial rulings upon which properties are registered are to be kept at the Lands and Properties Department. 
It bans the removal of documents from the department. Judicial bodies or any expert or committees assigned are authorised to review the documents and get attested copies. 
Article No.6 
The Lands Department is solely assigned to register property rights and long-term leasing contracts as stipulated in Article No.4 of this law. 
Under the law, the department will carry out the following duties: 
1-Specifying survey areas or re-conducting surveys and attesting location maps. 
2-Specifying rules related survey and releasing maps related to property units. 
3- Preparing model property contracts.  
4-Setting rules related to regulating, keeping and destroying documents. 
5-Setting rules related to the use of Computer in data entry and saving. 
6- Setting rules related to the regulation and keeping the records of property brokers. 
7-Setting rules related to the assessment of properties. 
8-Setting rules related to the sale of properties in auctions, and supervising the auctions. 
9-Fixing fees for services offered by the department. 
10- Setting up branches of the department upon the director's discretion. 
Article No.7 
A property register at the Dubai Lands and Properties Department shall be set up for documenting property rights and their amendments. Its records hold the ultimate evidence against all without exceptions. Its records cannot be challenged except in the case of forgery. 
Article No.8 
Documents of the property register which are electronically saved, have the same evidential value of the original documents. 
Article No.9 
All property transactions and deals that result in giving, moving, changing or removing property rights, must be registered with the property register. And so must all the final rulings that prove such dealings, which are not considered valid until they are registered. 
Article No.10 
To undertake transferring any property rights is limited to the contractor's commitment to the guarantee if he defaulted on his contractual duties whether a compensation was stipulated in the undertaking or not. 
Article No.11 
The inheritance notification must be registered with the property register, in case heirs have property rights within their inheritance. And, no dealings will be admitted unless registered. 
Article No.12 
The department has the authority to look into applications submitted by owners of unregistered lands seeking to settle their legal status. 
Article No.13 
The department can correct purely financial errors in the property register upon a request by applicants or on its own, with informing concerned parties. 
Article No.14 
The department coordinates updating property data with parties concerned. 
Article No.15 
The registration of property areas and units at the property register must be based on typographic, property unit and property area maps. It also reads that each property area must have an independent map, manifesting all property units in the area and their numbers. 
Each property unit must also have a separate map, showing its location, boundaries, length, area and buildings, and the numbers of neighbouring units. 
The law also stipulates that any amendment to the property unit, whether by dividing or merging units must be registered with the property register. 
The department issues ownership certificates regarding property rights, which are considered ultimate evidence to prove property rights.  
The above-mentioned certificates must include any terms, conditions, undertakings or any other commitments. 
The provisions of federal civil transactions law No.5 of 1985 and its amendments are still valid in the cases not stipulated by this law. 
Any agreement or deal concluded in violation of this law is invalid. Any person, department or public prosecution has the right to contest such a deal. 
This law abrogates the provisions of the decree concerning legal and penal suites related to land transactions in Dubai, dated November 6, 1997 
The Chairman of the department issues the necessary regulations and rules to put this law into effect.

The law shall be published in the official gazette, and is to be taken into force from the date of its issuance.