President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom has today ratified the First ‎Amendment Bill to the “Prevention and Prohibition of Corruption Act ‎” ‎‎[Law no: 2/2000], and the ‎‎First Amendment Bill to the “Act on Mandatory ‎Government Service for those who study at Public Schools, Government-‎aided schools and funded by Government” [Law no: 29/76].‎

The Amendment was passed by the Parliament at the 24th ‎sitting of its ‎seventeenth session, on 24 November 2014. Following ratification, the ‎bill ‎has been published in the Government Gazette.‎