The present allocation rule is in Article 13 of Martyrs Foundation Law No. 2 of 2016, as it stands after Law No. 23 of 2024, and in Article 16 if the family has more than one martyr. The text confines itself to the percentages and alternatives; it does not fix a standing price or a cash area.
Who counts as family is explained in Privileges by kinship. The coverage path is in A martyr's file.
Paragraph First allocates a housing unit or a residential plot, with a real-estate grant, to persons covered by this law and by Compensation Law No. 20 of 2009, as amended, as follows:
The allocation is confined to those ties. It is not made to every person who falls within the definition of the family in the same measure. The paragraph also applies to persons covered by Law No. 20 of 2009, as amended, where the text so provides.
Paragraph Second exempts a martyr's family from the hometown rule and from dissolved Revolutionary Command Council Decision No. 120 of 20/1/1982 and the instructions issued under it. Receiving a residential plot under this law is not treated as a bar to receiving a residential plot under other laws.
If the family does not want the unit or the plot, the text provides for payment of its value at the prevailing market price, which the Ministry of Finance is required to meet. The alternative is calculated under the text when it is applied.
Article 16 gives a single family that has more than one martyr, among those covered by this law or by Law No. 20 of 2009, as amended, an increase of fifty per cent in the salary and other financial privileges for each additional martyr, and a housing unit whose area is fifty per cent larger than the unit allocated for a single martyr's family, or a plot with the same increase, or more than one plot according to entitlement. Municipal directorates in the governorates are required to make that allocation. If the parents did not receive the plot, the cash alternative or the unit because of death, the right to receive it passes to the brothers and sisters.
Housing complexes that the Foundation undertakes, and the land prepared for them, are addressed in Article 15. That is a path of construction and distribution that the Foundation pursues with the ministries concerned. It is distinguished from the individual allocation under Article 13, even if the two subjects meet in practice.
| Path | What it provides |
|---|---|
| Article 13 | A unit or a plot, with a real-estate grant, for the categories named, with exemption from the hometown rule and Decision 120 |
| Alternative if the family does not want the property | Value at the market price, which the Ministry of Finance must meet |
| Article 16 | A 50 per cent increase in area, or more than one plot, if the family has more than one martyr |
| Article 15 | Housing complexes undertaken by the Foundation on land prepared for them |
On completion of real-estate registration of the allocated property, or on building on the allocated land, or on an assignment among members of the family, the text exempts them from taxes and fees (Article 18). The rights prescribed are shared equally among those entitled, where the text so provides.
No. Article 13 exempts a martyr's family from the hometown rule and from Decision No. 120 of 1982.
The text provides that it is not a bar to receiving a plot under other laws.
The parents, if they are living, under paragraph First; the full siblings if the martyr was unmarried and the parents are deceased; then the half-siblings if there are no full siblings.
The plot area, cash alternative, or real-estate grant is read from Article 13 of Law No. 2 of 2016, as amended, and the implementing instructions in force, together with the percentage increase under Article 16 where there is more than one martyr.
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