F- To be a full time journalist.
Article 6:
A- Training for the profession is accepted according to this law in the following two cases:
1. In case of actual practice in any media institution or official media institution.
2. If the training is done in any college specialized in journalism inside or outside the Kingdom.
B- This condition doesn’t apply to the trainees who are registered at thee association before the
implementation of this law.
Article 7: Journalists registered at the association at the time of implementing this law are equal
to those who registered at it according to its verdicts.
Article 8: For the goals of this law, the following are considered a practice of journalism:
A-The editor in chief, director general, editor, photographer, cartoonist, correspondent or reporter
of a Jordanian press institution.
B-The editor, reporter or correspondent of a news agency that is officially accredited in the
Kingdom or a reporter who is accredited for a media publication.
C-The editor in chief, director general, editor, photographer, cartoonist, correspondent or reporter
at the ministry or any official media department or institution.
D- The teacher of journalism at a Jordanian university.
E- The work of a registered journalist in any media position at the ministry or any official media
department.
Article 9: The Council can, with the approval of the minister, allow any journalist of any Arab or
foreign nationality to practice journalism in the Kingdom at a location and of duration it specifies
on the condition of having a similar legal text in the legislation of the other country. The journalist
shall meet the following conditions:
A-to have the right to practice journalism in his country and to have a license of that.
B-to have an official permission to live and work in the Kingdom for a period not less than a year.
Article 10:
A-A membership application must be filled and accompanied by documents is presented to the
Association and is considered accepted if the council does not issue a decision on it within 30
days of its application.
C- The council informs the minister and the applicant of its decision.
Article 11: Taking into consideration the verdicts of article (7) and (14) of this law, the
membership of the journalist is cancelled through a resolution of the council if it was proved that