The most important legal news in local newspapers
We in Ben Arafa Law Group Consulting & Legal Legitimacy L.L.C likes to provide you of the most important legal news in the local newspapers for this week, which related to your business and commercial, labor and procedural activities, and accordingly we provide you with the most important news as follows:

Regulating Non-Saudis Ownership of Properties in the KSA through the digital ID

The cabinet approves allowing non-Saudi who are non-residents in the KSA to own properties by using the digital ID, while the public property authority shall coordinate with the ministry of interior and the Saudi Authority of Information and Artificial Intelligence (Sdaia), the National Information Center, and the related authorities, to establish the required mechanisms for activating that ID, to ensure that it is ready to be applied before the enforcement of the non-Saudis ownership of properties system.

Also, the cabinet approves the decree of the strategic committee at the economic affairs and development council about the governance of non-Saudis ownership of properties and using them, and forming a specialized committee from the public properties authority board to perform the related tasks, while the authority board shall complete the required actions for forming that committee and shall define its regulating roles.

At the same context, the board of the public property authority was re-formed under the presidency of the authority CEO, and in the membership of two representatives for the following governmental authorities:

Ministry of interior

Ministry of municipality and housing affairs

Ministry of finance

Ministry of justice

Ministry of economy and planning

Ministry of investment

Ministry of environment, water and agriculture.

Ministry of industry and mineral resources.

State properties public authority

Public authority of surveying and geospatial information.

That is in addition to three members from the related private sector to the authority activity.

It is indicated that last July, the cabinet approves the law for non-Saudi ownership of properties, while it shall be enforceable from January, 2026.

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Updates of the private sector salaries protection program

Ministry of human resources and social development announces important updates in the salaries protection programs that aim at reinforcing compliance and securing the rights of the private sector labor.

According to the program guidelines, paying unfair basic salary to the labor shall be considered a violation, and shall be automatically registered at the register notifications at the violations page, especially when it contradicts other registered information. Also, the notifications include the cases when the total deductions exceed 50% of the salary, or not registering the basic salary in “Mudad” website for more than 90 days, or the absence of a register that confirms the salary is paid to the labor.

In a case that the establishment delays uploading the file of salaries protection for 20 days, “Mudad” program will transfer the case to the inspection department for taking the required action.

Also, a period for justifying the delay of salaries payment is defined to 10 days, while the labor can respond to the justification in 3 days. In a case of not responding, the justification shall be approved automatically.

The ministry confirms that the delay of salaries payment for two months shall result in halting all services of the establishment, with the exception of issuing and renewing employment licenses. In a case of delay for three months, all services shall be halted, while the labor shall transfer his service to another establishment without the need of the present employer approval, even if the employment license is valid.

Issuing the executive bylaw for White Lands Charges 

Ministry of municipality and housing affairs approves the executive bylaw for white lands charges, with the aim of increasing the offers of developed lands and achieving balance between offer and demand, in addition to reinforcing competition and facing monopoly.

The bylaw includes a developed mechanism for applying charges, as it divides geographical areas into layers according to the urban development priorities, while annual charges up to 10% of the land value shall be applied on the critical priority layer.

The ministry revises the property information regularly, to include the availability of units and lands, size of treatment, monopoly practices to define the scope of applying, amending or suspending the charges.

The bylaw defines five conditions so that the white lands are governed by the charges, including that its area or total lands owned by one landlord in the city scope shall not be less than 5,000 m2. Also the bylaw considers the presence of regulatory prevention or obstacles against the development, in a condition that the landlord doesn’t cause it. An additional period may be granted for achieving development according to the land nature.

The charges application shall be halted in a case of achieving land development or building in the defined period for payment. Also, the procedures for developing lands are facilitated through the developers service center “Etmam”, which facilitates issuing licenses and plans through the one website. The ministry invites landlords to register their lands through the website for white lands charges in the defined period which is announced at the official coming announcements.