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The core of this update is Lex AI’s transition to a fully agentic search model, which fundamentally upgrades its ability to intelligently navigate and locate relevant information across Decree’s extensive database of Omani legislation. This agentic capability provides an extremely powerful research experience by offering unprecedented accuracy and a precise ability to pinpoint exact legal provisions and case summaries. It also features a deeper retrieval capacity to synthesize a larger volume of relevant information for complex queries, alongside highly accurate number and data retrieval to ensure you can trust the details in your legal research.

Seamless Conversation History

Legal research is rarely a single question and answer. To better support your workflow, we have added a comprehensive Conversation History feature. You can now easily pick up where you left off by going back to review previous chat conversations. Additionally, you can manage your workspace by renaming individual chats to quickly find specific research topics, and you can delete old conversations you no longer need.

Front Page Access

We have made Lex AI even easier to access. If your subscription includes Lex AI, the assistant will now appear directly on the front page of Decree. You can begin querying our legal database the moment you log in, without having to navigate to a separate page first.

These new features are currently available on the web-based version of Lex AI. They will be added to the mobile version very soon.

Lex AI is available as an add-on to your standard Decree subscription. We highly encourage Decree members to log in today and experience the power and precision of the new agentic search firsthand. If you do not currently have Lex AI on your plan but would like to explore how it can transform your workflow, we would be happy to set up a trial. Please find our contact details here to request a trial.

Tracking these announcements manually through the Official Gazette and daily newspapers is tedious and leaves too much room for human error. The Decree API solves this by giving your software programmatic, real-time access to official Omani liquidation, merger, and dissolution announcements.

Who is this for?

The API is built for any organisation extending credit or services to Omani companies:

• Banks & Lenders: Automatically cross-reference active commercial loans against daily “Liquidation Start” announcements to instantly alert your recovery team.
• Utility Providers: Automatically flag corporate accounts entering dissolution to halt services and initiate immediate debt collection.
• B2B Suppliers: Continuously monitor client lists for “Dissolution and Merger” announcements. If a client is being acquired and dissolved, your finance team gets an immediate heads-up to either transfer the debt to the new acquiring company or lodge a formal creditor objection before the statutory deadline expires.

Technical Highlights

The Decree API is a RESTful service designed for seamless integration:

• Simple & Predictable: Uses standard X-API-Key authentication (1,000 requests/day limit) and returns clean JSON data.
• Actionable Payloads: Whether it’s a “Liquidation Start” or “Dissolution and Merger” event, the API hands you exactly what you need to act: the company’s Commercial Registration (CR) number, names in English/Arabic, publication date, and contact info.
• Secure by Design: To protect your highly confidential client lists, the best practice is to use the GET /announcements/recent endpoint to pull daily updates. This allows your system to cross-reference CR numbers locally, ensuring your customer data never leaves your internal network.

You can view the full documentation of Decree API with examples of use on our API page.

Decree API is a separate service from the subscription service of Decree. Use the link below to contact us if you are interested in learning more about this powerful service:

The app, available on iOS and Android, allows members to search legislation, ask questions, and view related sources directly from their phones. This capability enables users to leverage Decree’s artificial intelligence legal research assistant without having to be seated at a desktop computer.

As part of our launch, we are providing unrestricted mobile access to all Decree members for one month, regardless of your current plan.

After this introductory month, mobile app access will be exclusive to users who have the web-based version of Lex AI included in their subscription bundle.

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You can also download the app directly on your device by scanning the code below:

Laws & Amendments

17 Royal Decrees

The year 2025 was a landmark year for Omani legislation, introducing several major new laws that reshape the economic and social landscape. Most notably, the Personal Income Tax Law was issued, marking a significant shift in the nation’s fiscal policy. Other critical pieces of legislation included the new Banking Law, the Public Health Law, the Electronic Transactions Law, and the Law Regulating Real Estate. Significant attention was also given to social and human rights issues with the issuance of the Law Combating Human Trafficking, the Law of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and the Law Regulating the Transfer and Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues.

Systems & Amendments

2 Royal Decrees

In Oman, the term “system” refers to a legal instrument that governs the operation of a government entity or the operation of a government legal process. The most significant new system that came out in 2025 was the System of the Central Bank of Oman, which accompanied the new Banking Law. Additionally, amendments were made to the System of the Social Protection Fund to align it with ongoing social protection reforms.

Gov Restructuring

10 Royal Decrees

The government continued its restructuring efforts to enhance efficiency and investment appeal. The most significant development was the establishment of the Court of Investment and Commerce and the issuance of its law. Another major restructuring involved the Secretariat General of the Tender Board, which was renamed and expanded into the Projects, Tenders, and Local Content Authority. The Alternative Investment Market was established this year.

Treaties

36 Royal Decrees

Oman ratified a substantial number of treaties this year, reflecting its active diplomatic and economic engagement. A historic milestone was the approval of Oman’s accession to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The year featured a flurry of visa exemption agreements with countries such as Russia, Iran, Indonesia, Belarus, and the Maldives, alongside double taxation agreements with nations including Bahrain, Iraq, and Tanzania.

Concessions

12 Royal Decrees

Concession agreements for exploration and mining were approved for multiple blocks, including agreements with Al Tamman Indsil Mining, Oman Chromite Company, and Wusta Mining Company. In the energy sector, the Marsa Protocol relating to the concession for Block 10 was also approved.

Nationality

7 Royal Decrees

Omani nationality is granted, revoked, and re-instated by royal decree and this category had 6 royal decrees in this area, including decrees granting Omani nationality and explicitly authorizing dual nationality with British and Russian citizenships.

Appointments

14 Royal Decrees

The most significant appointments made by royal decree this year were the appointment of a new Governor for the Central Bank of Oman along with confirmation of the appointment of a President for the Projects, Tenders, and Local Content Authority.

Misc

12 Royal Decrees

In addition to the categories detailed above, there were 9 royal decrees regarding miscellaneous, yet important, topics such as approving the General Budget of the State for 2025 and establishing the Special Economic Zone in Rawdah and the Special Economic Zone in the Governorate of Dhahirah, as well as licensing Space Communication Technologies.

2025 Wrapped

This post outlined the royal decrees issued this year, but this is merely a portion of the Omani legislation that was issued this year which includes ministerial decisions and regulations, all of which are available on Decree.

The year 2026 is expected to have even bigger legal developments. To stay up to date with new laws as they come out, make sure that you follow Decree on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Bluesky.

For example, when a member views the Personal Income Tax Law, a new Ask Lex button will appear on the corner of the page. The user can use this command to ask questions about the Personal Income Tax Law without having to query Decree’s entire database. This process is usually faster and can provide more accurate answers when the user needs information from a single specific item.

When Lex AI Spotlight is unable to find the answer in the currently viewed item, the user will be advised to use the full version of Lex AI.

Lex AI and Lex AI Spotlight are available through a bundle subscription to Decree. They are available for free for all Decree members on all subscription plans for the whole of the month of September.

You can try Lex AI Spotlight on most pages on Decree, including the Personal Income Tax Law, the Penal Law, the Personal Data Protection Law, and many more.

Lex AI generates its answers exclusively from Decree’s database of translated Omani legislation and case summaries while providing full citations and references for all answers generated. Using GPT-5, Lex AI now runs at a faster speed and provides significantly improved analysis of Decree’s content to answer user questions, summarise the law, and create compliance checklists.

Decree members with access to Lex AI can try the new and improved Lex AI on the link below:

While Lex AI is capable of generating compliance checklists, Decree Toolkits goes beyond this by providing a curated collection of easy to use checklists that are reviewed and verified by our legal team. Each toolkit provides key information regarding the application of the item in question along with a breakdown of the key obligations imposed and a highlight of potential fines for failing to comply. Decree Toolkits are also downloadable in Excel and adopt a structure commonly used by compliance practitioners in Oman, which should allow our users to download our checklists and customize them to work with their workflows.

When a Toolkit is available for a specific item on Decree, a new Toolkit button will be displayed on the page of the law or regulation in question:

It is also possible to browse all available Toolkits on the main Decree Toolkits page and also look them up using the standard Decree search.

Decree Toolkits is available through a bundle subscription to Decree. It is available for free for all Decree members on all subscription plans until the end of the month of July.

We are also launching today new automation tools for generating OLCS compliant citation. You can now use a Citation Assistant on the OLCS website to easily generate legislation, cases, and fatwas citations. A similar feature has also been added to the free Decree Chrome Extension to allow you to quickly generate citations directly from your browser toolbar.

You can view the OLCS and use our new tools on the link below:

Lex AI is built using state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technology to generate its answers exclusively from Decree’s database of translated Omani legislation and case summaries, and it provides citations and references for all answers generated.

Lex AI is available through a bundle subscription to Decree. It is available for free for all Decree members on all subscription plans for the whole of the month of May.

We highly encourage Decree members to try out Lex AI and use the rating buttons to evaluate the quality of the responses. We are going to use this feedback to review the performance of the model and make any necessary adjustments.