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Both ministry of commerce and ministry of industry and mineral resources announce the application of amendments to the precious minerals and stones law

Both ministry of commerce and ministry of industry and mineral resources announce the application of the cabinet decree number (269), for amending some articles of the precious minerals and stones law, from the date of the 11^th of October, 2025. The decree includes transferring all authorities related to supervising, controlling and licensing the industry of precious minerals and stones from the ministry of commerce to the ministry of industry and mineral resources. They refer to the issuance of the executive bylaw for the law by a decree from the minister of commerce in an agreement with the minister of industry and mineral resources. It includes detailed regulations for the law.

Upon those amendments, the ministry of commerce is concerned with the following:

• Supervising the trading of precious minerals and stones and their artworks.
• Supervising the pained, coated and inlaid items and controlling sale windows.

The ministry of industry and mineral resources supervises manufacturing those products and industrial establishments’ control.

The amendments establish that no practice of precious minerals and stones shall be made unless with an industrial license from the ministry of industry and mineral resources. Also, the ministry of commerce- in an agreement with the ministry of industry and mineral resources- obliges artworks holders to use distinguished stamping signs which are registered according to the regulations.

The amended bylaw includes a number of articles, as it cancelled considering the regular calibration as a correct one when there is a confirmed shortage that doesn’t exceed four shares. It also, necessitate attaching an identification tag at each artwork where there are precious stones to include the required disclosure information, it prohibits advertising any products of precious minerals or stones before stating the weight, the calibration and the price of each product according to its nature.

Also, the bylaw obliges the establishments to issue a special invoice when purchasing from individuals, to include the name of the seller, number of his ID, his nationality, in addition to the applicable requirements for selling to customers. It also necessitates allocating a space at the shop to show the used and the ones where artificial or separate diamond is used.

In the same context, ministry of industry and mineral resources invites anyone who practices any activity that is related to precious minerals and stones industry without an industrial license to have an industrial license through “industry” website not later than six months from the date of the cabinet decree number (269) enforceability.

Both the ministry of commerce and industry and the ministry of mineral resources assert their application of the law and its executive bylaw for upgrading the competence of the precious minerals and stones sector in the KSA, reinforcing customer protection, and supporting products quality in the markets.

Ministry of municipality and Housing assert the mandatory of municipality licenses and warns from practicing violating activities 

Ministry of municipality and housing asserts the mandatory of issuing municipality licenses before practicing any commercial or constructional activity in cities, asserting that practicing any activity without a regulatory license represents an immediate violation that exposes the site responsible to sanctions and fines up to closing the site and halting some services at the high risk sites.

The ministry explains that the municipality license is not a formality, but it is a regulatory undertaking that keeps the rights of owners and investors, and provides a clear regular framework that ensures the continuity of activity, and reinforces market control and beneficiary confidence, asserting that practicing the activities outside that framework results in disciplining actions and represents a direct threat to community safety and the civilization, stating that non-licensed activities expose their owners to fines up to (50,000) riyals according to the violation type, in addition to closing and halting some services at high risk sites, when they threaten public safety.

Ministry of municipality and housing extensive its efforts for raising awareness of individuals and the holders of commercial and housing activities, property developers and contractors to undertake with municipality licenses before commencing any activity as a direct liability of the beneficiary and a basic pathway for protecting investments from sanctions, regulating activities in cities and ensuring providence of services to the population through a secure and controlled framework.

Duties of the ministry include following up a number of activities that include: (works of construction, building restoration, commercial activities, delivery services, tobacco shops, and fossil works), while treating violating sites according to the approved regulatory procedures from fines to closing when required, for protecting creatures, public facilities and passerby.

The ministry asserts the continuation of field control works through controllers, municipalities, professional teams and modern techniques of control that support direct follow up to sites, asserting that treating violations is made immediately according to the regulations, and the application of sanctions and closing represents a current and continuous procedure for protecting public safety and preserving a regular civilized scene.

Ministry of municipality and housing invites all beneficiaries to issue the regular license through “balady” website before practicing any activity, to avoid sanctions and closing. It also invites community members to notify about any unlicensed activity through the notification center (940), asserting that notification is a shared responsibility that contributes in stopping violations and treating their sites according to the law.

It is worth noting that “Balady” website is one of the digital platforms of the ministry of municipality and housing, that allows beneficiary nationals, residents and businessmen to achieve their municipality services electronically, for example issuing and renewing municipality licenses, inquiring about commercial activities, reporting, following up treatments without the necessity of visiting the facilities of departments or municipalities.

Ministry of municipality and housing approves the manual for reserving and withholding materials and tools

Ministry of municipality and housing approves the manual for reserving and withholding materials and tools in a regulative step to unify the municipality policies and procedures, and raising the level of compliance to laws and regulations, for preserving public safety and health, and reinforcing quality of life in the Saudi cities.

The ministry states that approving the manual is made according to the sanctions bylaw for municipality violations and the related executive rules, to be as unified regulatory guidelines in all departments and municipalities; it also reinforces supervision work, prevents contrasted procedures, and achieves justice and transparency in law enforceability.

The ministry states that the manual regulates the procedures of reserving and withholding violating materials and tools, and defines the mechanisms of transferring and keeping them at allocated locations where the required technical requirements are found, while the violator shall pay the costs of transporting and guarding, and shall ensure not using them during the withholding term, in addition to defining the cases that require temporary precaution closing of facilities to preserve public safety and health.

The ministry states that the manual includes the procedures for the disposal of invalid materials and tools or the dangerous ones, under the supervision of professional technical committees, while the violator shall pay the related costs. Also, it organizes the mechanisms for retrieving them upon the payment of fines and applying the regulatory requirements, and allows selling the withheld materials and tools in a public auction when their owners don’t retrieve them.

The manual includes detailed mechanisms that consider different cases, such as bid size materials and tools which are difficult to transport, where only samples of them are taken for inspection at the site or the facility according to the conditions. Also, the manual asserts immediate treatment of fast-damaging materials by transporting their samples directly to the concerned authority not later than twenty four (24) hours from the date of withholding them, while a defined time for inspection shall be allocated not later than three days, and allocated locations for keeping materials and tools shall be defined until the completion of the required tests.

The manual points out that the precaution closing of the shop or the facility shall not exceed three subsequent days, and shall not be extended at any condition, to re-open the site in a case of not confirming the justification of continuous closing, to ensure secured procedures and protection of public health.

This step is made through the efforts of the ministry of municipality and housing to reinforce the enforceability of laws and regulations, and developing its controlling and regulative tools, to support the Saudi Vision 2030 for improving the civilized scene, reinforcing compliance, and achieving higher levels of safety and quality of life.

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Documenting Training Certificates through Qiwa Website

Qiwa website launches a new service that documents the training certificates issued by employers, to be an approved portion of the employee resume in the website.

The service aims at reinforcing authenticity in work market and documenting actual acquired experience through practical training.

Service steps:

The employer inserts the details of the training course at Qiwa.

Then it is sent to the employee for revising and approval.

Upon approval, the certificate is added automatically to the resume of the employee at the website.

This step represents one of the initiatives that reinforce occupational excellence and match actual training with the digital resume of the employees. That contributes in upgrading competence of manpower.

Issuance of debt certificates through Qiwa Website

Qiwa website announces that owners of establishments can issue debt certificates that include the information of the registered debts against the establishment, to be presented to the new owner at the transfer or in the cases of liquidation or restructuring.

Steps of issuing the certificates:

Logging in (Qiwa Business)

Selecting the required establishment.

Selecting “services” then “certificates”

Selecting “establishment management”

Issuing the certificate, and then revising its details, downloading or printing it.

That service contributes in reinforcing financial transparency between parties and ensuring clarity of regulatory undertakings before the processes of sale or property transfer.

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Official documents which represent the identity of the personal information holder, including the national ID, residence, or passport shall not be photocopied or copied, unless in the following cases:

In a case that photocopying is made for the enforceability of the law rules.

In a case it is made upon a request of a concerned public authority according to the regulations.

The regulatory Document

Article number twenty eight of the personal information protection law aims at protecting the privacy of people and preventing the use or the circulation of their official documents unless with a regulatory justification.

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Issuance of occupational fitness and non-infectious diseases examination bylaw  

National Occupational Safety and Health Board issues the bylaw for occupational and non-infectious diseases examination, according to the national policy for occupational safety and health issued by the cabinet decree number (328) dated to 13-6-1442H, and the organization of boards by the cabinet decree number (379) dated to 7-7-1443H, also in according with the labor regulations and the related executive bylaws.

The bylaw aims at reinforcing protection of labor health in all labor sectors, through establishing a framework for assessing physical and mental health of workers, and ensuring their capability for performing their job duties securely and effectively. Also, it aims at limiting occupational diseases and injuries, and reinforcing compliance to national and international standards in the field of occupational safety and health.

The bylaw obliges all governmental authorities, private sector establishments and non-profitable organizations to perform medical examinations for occupational fitness in the following cases:

• Before hiring or employing.
• Regularly for workers in high-risk or confined professions.
• Upon returning from a long-term sick leaves or in a case of suspecting physical unfitness.
• Upon changing the profession or the work environment or using new equipment.

The bylaw also asserts the confidentiality of medical records, and the necessity of keeping them according to the personal information protection rules, while the employer shouldn’t examine the medical details but he only examines the final result of examination (fit- fit with limitations- unfit).

It points out that the examinations include general medical examination, laboratory and x-rays examination, specialized examinations according to the profession nature, and regular protective examinations, according to approved forms that consider the level of exposing to occupational risks.

The bylaw asserts the employers responsibility for providing the required resources for examinations, supporting compliance to occupational safety and health requirements, ensuring secure work environment for employees, and providing substitute jobs for medically unfit employees according to their medical status.

This bylaw is enforceable after (180) days from the date of its publishing at the official journal, as it is considered one of the critical regulative initiatives that reflect the kingdom interest in reinforcing occupational safety and health and protection from work injuries and diseases, according to the KSA vision 2030 towards a secure, healthy and sustainable work environment.

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A warning from Properties Public

Authority

The authority warns from collecting money or promotions for real estate contributions without official licenses, considering that as a violation to the law, asserting the necessity of having licenses through the official websites, protecting investors’ money and taking the required actions against violators.

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The law protects the reporters and the witnesses of crimes from any harms

The public prosecutor asserts that the Saudi laws protect the people who notify about the crimes, the victims and the witnesses from any harms that may result from reporting or contributing in discovering crimes. It points out that the law establishes defined procedures and securities that aim at protecting the rights of those people and protecting them from any physical or moral harm, whether during the investigations or after the sentences issuance, that include:

• Preventing watching the witness or the expert when they are present at the court for giving their statement of witness or expertise, or at the time of entering the court, or departing it, or using audio or video means of communication to hear the witness. When required, it may the techniques for changing the voice or the photo for protecting the ones who are covered by the law. It may use the program management for the enforceability of the required actions.

Names of witnesses may be hidden from the court sentence, while in a case that the court or the public prosecutor consider that announcing the identity of the one who is covered by the protection is necessary for practicing the right of defense and the witness or the expert statement is the sole means of confirmation in the case, it shall permit announcing their real identity in a condition of providing the required protection that includes:

Security protection.

Hiding his personal information and each indication to his identity through the protection period.

Transferring him from his work place – temporarily or permanently- through coordinating with his work place.

Helping to have another job, when it is required to leave his job.

Providing legal, psychological and social guidance.

Providing him with immediate notification means to notify about any threats that threaten him or any related person.

Changing his phone numbers.

Changing his residence, temporally or permanently, and providing suitable substitutes including transferring him to another city or location in the KSA according to the state.

Taking the required actions for his safety movements, including providing security companion.

Coordinating with the related authorities for stating the information related to the crime which is the protection subject, by using electronic means, while changing his voice or hiding his face.

Protecting his house.

Helping him financially in a case that the protection hinders him from earning money.

Any other protection which the program management considers suitable according to the bylaw.

Raising awareness about the rights and duties of house labor

Musaned website of the ministry of human resources and social development launches a campaign that aims at raising awareness about the bylaw for house labor and employers rights and duties, to ensure mutual understanding of the rights and the liabilities and improving the contracting relationship between both parties.

The website points out that the bylaw ensures the following for the house labor:

A paid yearly vacation for 30 days.

A weekly rest not less than a day.

A monthly salary at the end of each calendar month.

A daily rest for not less than 10 hours.

A suitable housing and enough meals.

Also, it asserts that the employer has rights that include:

Performing the agreed work accurately and honestly by the house labor.

The house labor undertakes with the instructions and not leaving the work without a justification.

The house labor undertakes not to refuse working or being absent without a prior notification.

Updating the conditions for the occupational workshops doesn’t include selling or marketing

Ministry of municipality and housing announces new conditions for regulating occupational workshops activity which is limited to maintenance and repairs.

Categorizing includes light workshops, for example maintenance of watches, equipment, leather wares, computers, jewelry and bicycles, and industrial workshops, for example, carpentry, blacksmithing, and aluminum, while the latter is governed by the requirements of safety and constructions.

The updates require undertaking with the Saudi code of construction including constructions, electricity, mechanics, ventilation, sanitary sewerage, and saving energy. The designs and the performance should be approved from licensed engineering offices.

The conditions require providing separated reception areas from the work locations, showing products at only the reception area, while undertaking with not more than 50% percentage for showrooms and offices to the maximum of 30% for offices.

The instructions assert providing toilets and bathrooms for workers and visitors of industrial workshops, especially at light workshops, while undertaking with hygiene and correct disposal of wastes.

The conditions require having a municipality license before operating and renewing it regularly. They prevent practicing any non-licensed activity or outside the workshop or using platforms or storing materials which aren’t related to the activity. Also, they prevent removing or covering closing posters, or re-operating before treating wastes, in addition to have the municipality approval.

For appearance and safety, the conditions require that facades should be void of random posters, while they allow only approved boards and information, no parking signs shouldn’t be installed while regular parking shouldn’t be closed. The regulations include undertaking with occupational safety and health requirements, and applying the fire protection code, including warning, fire-fighting and first aid systems.

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The law protects the reporters and the witnesses of crimes from any harms

The public prosecutor asserts that the Saudi laws protect the people who notify about the crimes, the victims and the witnesses from any harms that may result from reporting or contributing in discovering crimes. It points out that the law establishes defined procedures and securities that aim at protecting the rights of those people and protecting them from any physical or moral harm, whether during the investigations or after the sentences issuance, that include:

• Preventing watching the witness or the expert when they are present at the court for giving their statement of witness or expertise, or at the time of entering the court, or departing it, or using audio or video means of communication to hear the witness. When required, it may the techniques for changing the voice or the photo for protecting the ones who are covered by the law. It may use the program management for the enforceability of the required actions.

Names of witnesses may be hidden from the court sentence, while in a case that the court or the public prosecutor consider that announcing the identity of the one who is covered by the protection is necessary for practicing the right of defense and the witness or the expert statement is the sole means of confirmation in the case, it shall permit announcing their real identity in a condition of providing the required protection that includes:

• Security protection.

• Hiding his personal information and each indication to his identity through the protection period.

• Transferring him from his work place – temporarily or permanently- through coordinating with his work place.

• Helping to have another job, when it is required to leave his job.

• Providing legal, psychological and social guidance.

• Providing him with immediate notification means to notify about any threats that threaten him or any related person.

• Changing his phone numbers.

• Changing his residence, temporally or permanently, and providing suitable substitutes including transferring him to another city or location in the KSA according to the state.

• Taking the required actions for his safety movements, including providing security companion.

• Coordinating with the related authorities for stating the information related to the crime which is the protection subject, by using electronic means, while changing his voice or hiding his face.

• Protecting his house.

• Helping him financially in a case that the protection hinders him from earning money.

• Any other protection which the program management considers suitable according to the bylaw.

Raising awareness about the rights and duties of house labor

Musaned website of the ministry of human resources and social development launches a campaign that aims at raising awareness about the bylaw for house labor and employers rights and duties, to ensure mutual understanding of the rights and the liabilities and improving the contracting relationship between both parties.

The website points out that the bylaw ensures the following for the house labor:

• A paid yearly vacation for 30 days.

• A weekly rest not less than a day.

• A monthly salary at the end of each calendar month.

• A daily rest for not less than 10 hours.

• A suitable housing and enough meals.

Also, it asserts that the employer has rights that include:

• Performing the agreed work accurately and honestly by the house labor.

• The house labor undertakes with the instructions and not leaving the work without a justification.

• The house labor undertakes not to refuse working or being absent without a prior notification.

Updating the conditions for the occupational workshops doesn’t include selling or marketing

Ministry of municipality and housing announces new conditions for regulating occupational workshops activity which is limited to maintenance and repairs.

Categorizing includes light workshops, for example maintenance of watches, equipment, leather wares, computers, jewelry and bicycles, and industrial workshops, for example, carpentry, blacksmithing, and aluminum, while the latter is governed by the requirements of safety and constructions.

The updates require undertaking with the Saudi code of construction including constructions, electricity, mechanics, ventilation, sanitary sewerage, and saving energy. The designs and the performance should be approved from licensed engineering offices.

The conditions require providing separated reception areas from the work locations, showing products at only the reception area, while undertaking with not more than 50% percentage for showrooms and offices to the maximum of 30% for offices.

The instructions assert providing toilets and bathrooms for workers and visitors of industrial workshops, especially at light workshops, while undertaking with hygiene and correct disposal of wastes.

The conditions require having a municipality license before operating and renewing it regularly. They prevent practicing any non-licensed activity or outside the workshop or using platforms or storing materials which aren’t related to the activity. Also, they prevent removing or covering closing posters, or re-operating before treating wastes, in addition to have the municipality approval.

For appearance and safety, the conditions require that facades should be void of random posters, while they allow only approved boards and information, no parking signs shouldn’t be installed while regular parking shouldn’t be closed. The regulations include undertaking with occupational safety and health requirements, and applying the fire protection code, including warning, fire-fighting and first aid systems.

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The Executive Bylaw for Regulating Housing Support reorders the deserving priorities and reinforces the principle of seniority

A new amendment is issued on the executive bylaw that regulates housing support, including reforming article (thirty) of the bylaw with the aim of regulating the principle of priority among applicants and reinforcing fair preference through approving seniority as a decisive basis in assessing the applications for housing support.

According to the amendment, the applicant is granted one point per each year passes since the date of applying to the maximum of (10) points, where the seniority is calculated from the date of the application completion notification, as the approved official reference for ordering the priority of applicants in “the housing” system.

The amendments also include considering the previous loan applications to the property development fund as one of the criteria for seniority, so that the first application order is reserved when the applicant transfers to the new housing support programs in a step that aims at treating the previous accumulations and protecting the rights of applicants.

The amended bylaw exempted the periods of organizational halting from calculating the points of seniority to ensure accuracy of preference and distracting the effect of administrative stoppage periods on the order of applicants.

At the same context, the bylaw grants to additional points to the applicants who has previously applied for having housing lands without allocating any plots for them by the governmental authorities, while the total of the granted points shouldn’t exceed the maximum points granted to the applicant (10 points).

Those amendments came in the efforts of the ministry of municipality, villages and housing affairs that aim at establishing justice and transparency standards in distributing the housing support, and achieving the housing and social stability according to the vision of the KSA 2030, especially for what is related to increasing the nationals’ ownership of houses and improving life quality.

Warning the property owners who fail to apply for the first property registration

Public authority for properties issues an important decree that is related to the application of the property registration system, to reinforce property transparency and the level of governance in the properties sector.

According to the decree, the authority warns the property owners who didn’t apply for the first property registration through the defined term at the property zones advertisement – no (55) zones – after the completion of the official advertising period.

The authority points out the following:

• Violators are granted a grace time for (90) days from the date of publishing the decree for correcting their situation, through applying for the first property registration for their properties.

• Upon the completion of the grace time without correcting the situation, the sanctions stated in article (35) of the properties registration law shall be applied.The decree is based on

• the royal bylaw number (91-M) dated to 19-9-1443H, and the supreme order number (32043) dated to 5-5-1444H, for approving the principle of warning and granting an opportunity for correcting non-material violations before applying fines or sanctions.

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Enforceability on the housing and the vehicle

Some people think that it is impossible to enforce on the house or the vehicle of the respondent whatever the debt amount, but in fact, enforceability can be made on the housing or the vehicle even if the respondent owns only it, that is in defined conditions that include:

– In a case of being mortgaged to the creditor.

– In a case of being surplus to him and his dependents.

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 (1) New Regulations for regulating the tenancy market in Riyadh

For enforcement of the directions issued by His Majesty the Crown Prince, Mohamed Bin Salman Bin Abdul Aziz, a number of new regulations are issued to regulate the tenancy market in Riyadh, in a response to the challenges faced recently by the capital as a result of huge raise in the housing and commercial tenancies. The regulations include the following:

• Fixing tenancy prices:
• Stopping the annual raise of the total lease for the (present and new) tenancy contracts of housing and commercial properties in the urban areas of Riyadh for five years commencing from the 3^rd Rabea Akher, 1447H corresponding to 25^th September, 2025. Accordingly the lessor shall not raise the agreed total lease value in present or new contracts from the date.
• Fixing the total value for vacant housing or commercial properties in the urban areas of Riyadh (which were previously leased) according to the tenancy value of the last tenancy contract. The total value of housing and commercial properties (which haven’t been previously leased) is calculated according to an agreement between the lessor and the lessee.
• Necessity of documenting contracts:
• Landlords should document lease contracts at “ejar” website, while tenants have the right of applying for registration.
• Each party may object the contract information at the Public Properties Authority in (60) days from the notification date, while in a case of not objecting, the information shall be considered correct.
• Automatic renewal regulations:
• The tenancy contract shall be renewed automatically in all cities of the KSA, unless a party notifies the other that he doesn’t intent to renew it at least (60) days before the date of the contract completion.
• In the scope of Riyadh, the landlord shall not reject the contract renewal in a case of the tenant intent to continue it, unless in defined cases which include the tenant failure of payment, or in a case of structural defects that affect the property safety, or in a case of the landlord or any of his relative of the first keen to occupy the unit.
• Objecting the lease value:
• The landlord may object the lease value in contracts other than the present ones in a case the property has material restorations, or in a case of another contract is made before 2024, or according to what is decreed by properties public authority.
• Violations and Fines:
• Applying a fine up to the lease value of (12 months) on violations, while correcting it and compensating the damaged party.
• Granting a reward up to (20%) of the collected fine to the one who reports a violation that results in issuing a final decision of its confirmation.

Those regulations represent a material step for rebalancing the tenancy market in Riyadh, and ensuring justice and transparency in contracting relationship between the landlord and the tenant, that reinforces secure investments and supports sustainable urban development, to achieve the goals of the KSA vision 20230 including upgrading life quality and regulating property sector.

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The manager and the board of directors are jointly liable for compensating the company, the partners, the shareholders or others against the damages resulted from violating the company bylaw or its articles of association, or resulted from their mistakes or omissions or their short performance of their duties, while any contrary condition shall be null.

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 “Qiwa” launches the service of “job market inclusion” to enable absent employee transfer their services to a new employee.   

 “Qiwa” website which follows ministry of human resources launches a new service in the name of “Job market inclusion” that aims at enabling resident employees who are absent from their work to transfer their services to a new employer and making a new contract, in a condition of 12 months pass from the date of the employee entry to the KSA before work stoppage or terminating the contracting relationship.

The service includes the following categories:

• The employees whose status is transformed to job absentee after the completion of the grace period for 60 days, as a result of work absence of the ones who don’t have documented contracts.

• The employees whose documented contracts are completed and their status is transformed to work absentee after the completion of the grace period.

• The employees who were absent from the work before launching the initiative of work absence, including the reports issued outside Qiwa website.

The employees who are absent because of the final departure visa are excluded. The website asserts that the service is permanent and not a temporary one. It enables the employee to re-contract with a new employer when he meets the regulations.

For the money charges, Qiwa website points out that:

• The charges is the responsibility of the previous employer in a case that the employee status is “currently working at the establishment”

• The charges is the responsibility of the new employer in a case that the employee status is “absent from the work”

• Also, the charges is the responsibility of the new employer in a case that the employee is registered at a non-existing or under establishing establishment.

The commerce: Imprisonment for 3 years and a fine of a million riyals in a case of fake offers

Ministry of commerce asserts that electronic stores and facilities should undertake with the conditions that regulate commercial competitions.

The ministry spokesman points out that those conditions include the necessity of having an electronic license from the commercial chamber before the competition, in addition to explaining the method of participation, the category of prizes awarded to the winners, the commencement and the completion dates for the competition. The ministry asserts that in a case of not undertaking with the conditions, the prizes shall be given under its direct supervision. He states that the conditions that regulate commercial competitions include prohibiting making a condition of increasing the prices of products for participants to enter the competition. Also, department stores should publish the license number at the competition advertisement, and undertaking with all instructions issued by the ministry of commerce, according to the ministry of commerce announcement on the date of Monday, 22^nd September, 2025 (30^th Rabea Awal, 1447H)

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Competition law prevents companies from conspiring to kick out rivals from the market, or to use the dominant position for limiting the competition or dominating the market.

According to the law, the violations include:

Selling in prices less than the cost to expose rivals to losses.

Limiting prices or conditions in a way that hinders new rivals entry.

Unfairness with clients that violates the principle of market fairness.

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Capital Market Authority issues a bylaw to regulate agreements of offsetting and arrangements of financial guaranties

Capital market authority issues a new regulatory bylaw that aims at regulating offsetting agreements and the arrangements of financial guaranty related to qualified fiscal contracts. It ensures the enforceability of those agreements outside the scope of bankruptcy procedures, but through its context. That is made in coordination with the central bank and the ministry of commerce, according to the capital market and the bankruptcy regulations. 

The bylaw defines the basic concepts, such as offsetting, qualified fiscal contracts, guaranty and multi-party offsetting agreement. It also defines the rights of agreement parties- especially non-bankrupted party, in the offsetting performance and keeping guaranties, even in a case that the other party begins bankruptcy procedures at that time of amends those rights. 

The bylaw asserts that the rules of the offsetting agreements and the arrangements of fiscal guaranty are enforceable and applicable according to their conditions and aren’t affected by bankruptcy unless in the cases of fraud which is confirmed by clear evidence.

The bylaw includes an annex for qualified financial contracts, that includes more than 25 categories of financial contracts and dealings, for example: currency derivatives, contracts of goods, credit derivatives, re-purchasing agreements, dealings that agree with the Islamic law, such as Murabaha and compromise.  

The bylaw represents a critical regulating step for supporting financial stability in the KSA, and reinforcing confidence in fiscal dealings among establishments, especially emergency or insolvency cases.  

Capital Market Authority of the KSA approves amendments to the regulations for foreign investment in securities

The regulations aim at regulating foreign investment in securities, debt instruments, and investment funds. The aims of those amendments are as follows:

Motivating investment, encouraging foreign capital flow to the Saudi market.

Raising attractiveness and competence: making the market more attractive for foreign investors and improving operating competence.

Reinforcing competition: reinforcing Saudi market competition at both national and international levels.

The amendments include:

Extending investment channels: extending foreign investment scope by permitting foreign natural and legal identities, whether residents or non-residents to invest in securities, debt instruments and investment funds, considering those regulations.

Limitations on Ownership percentage: no non-resident foreign investor (in the exception of the foreign strategic investor) shall own 10% or more of any shares of any registered source or transferable debt instruments of the source. Also, foreign investors collectively (of all categories, whether residents or non-residents, except foreign strategic investors) shall not own more than (49%) of the shares in any registered source or its transferable debt instruments.

Categories exempted from the assets condition: 

There are exempted categories from the required minimum assets value condition (a million riyals) for the qualified foreign investor, including: retirement funds, Waqf funds, customers of market makers, governmental authorities, central banks, sovereign funds and international organizations and their foundations.  

Facilitating mutual agreements:

Capital market foundations are permitted to make exchange agreements with foreign counterparties only for the interests of non-resident foreign investors, to transfer the economic interests of the market securities to those investors as the end beneficiaries through exchange deals made under the exchange agreements.

Discharge and grievance: 

The authority may discharge any person from the applicability of any of those regulations whether entirely or partly, by an application or an initiative from him. Any person who is governed by those regulations may file a grievance to the committee from any decree or an action taken by the authority according to those regulations.

Exceptions from the regulations:

The regulations aren’t applicable on the GCC nationals.

Those amendments are considered of the efforts to make the Saudi capital market an attractive and motivating investment direction according to the KSA vision 2030 that aims at variation of national income sources.  

Legal Information

In labor cases, in a case that the employee or the employer doesn’t file the claim in 12 months from the date of the employment relation completion, the claim shall fall automatically, but there are exceptions that permit accepting the claim after that period, the exceptions include:

The presence of a justified excuse that prevents filing the claim (sever disease or imprisonment)

 In a case of the employer promise to settle down the rights, but he doesn’t respect his promise.

 In a case that the employee doesn’t recognize his rights because of the employer deceit.

In a case that the claim is for amounts which are reserved at governmental authorities, such as social insurance or banks.

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:

 (1) The Cabinet approves property expropriation law for the public interests and temporary possession

The Saudi cabinet approves the law for property expropriation for the public interests and the temporary possession for using the property and achieving the public interests for a defined term without property transfer, while the owners shall be compensated fairly with a compensation which isn’t less than similar property, in addition to 20% of the charges, and a compensation for the resulted damages.

The law also defines the public interests as everything that achieves public benefits for development and progress and making the community the priority, or everything that avoids public harms, such as crisis, epidemics, etc.

 (2) No protection for products which are originated entirely by the artificial intelligence

Saudi Intellectual property authority issues new guidelines where it points out that the legal protection according to the author rights law is limited to the products which resulted from original human participation. It affirms that the products which are resulted entirely from artificial intelligence without a human interfering shall not be covered with protection. It points out that the outputs shall be protected in a case that their production includes guiding creativity or artistic composition from man that reflects his/ her ethical selection. That direction agrees with the international practices and aims at reinforcing legal transparency and supporting creativity environment in the kingdom.

(3) Legal Information

In a case that a shareholder’s share is limited to his job, and the company articles of association don’t define his share in the profits or loss, his share in them shall be similar to the share of the least capital shareholder. In a case that the shareholder provides- in addition to his job- cash or material share, he shall have a portion of profits or losses according to his share in the job and another share for his cash or material share.