The ability of foreigner woman to trade in Egypt

The Egyptian legislator was proved in commercial law Number 17 in 1999 the ability of woman to trade. In this law the legislator set main rule about the legal system which control the situation from beginning according to the following details:

The law of the State to which a married woman belongs by her nationality shall regulate her eligibility to exercise trade.

An alien wife exercising trade as a profession shall be supposed to be exercising it with her husband’s permission. If the law applicable allows the husband to object to her exercise of trade as a pm Cession,or to withdraw his previous permission the objection or withdrawal of the permission shall be recorded in the Register of Commerce and shall be published in the Register’s journal. The objection or withdrawal of the permission shall have no effect except from the date of completing such publication.

The objection or withdrawal of the permission shall not affect the rights acquired by the bona third party.

An alien wife exercising trade shall be supposed to have goi married according to the system of separation of (lands and property, unless otherwise provided by the terms of the financial agreement between the two spouses.

The terms of financial agreement between the two spouses shall not be invoked vis-a-vis third parties except after its notarization by Publishing its summary in the register’s journal.

In case of neglecting the publication of the financial terms of agreement between the two spouses, the third party may prove that the marriage had taken place according to a financial system more suited to his interests than the system of separation of funds.

A court ruling pronounced abroad concerning the separation of finds and property between the two spouses shall not be invoked except from the date of recording it n the register of Commerce and publishing its summary in the register’s journal.