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The documented contract is an executive deed

The initiative of “the documented employment contract is an executive deed” is launched according to the specialization of the ministry of human resources and social development for regulating and protecting the labor relationships, in cooperation with the ministry of justice, that initiative will result in acquiring the documented employment contract at “Qiwa” website shall represent an executive deed according to the related laws.

Upon that initiative, the salary article which is stated in the contract- that includes the basic salary, the housing allowance and the transport allowance, in addition to other cash allowances- if found- shall represent an enforceable undertaking, that obliges the employee to file an execution application directly through Najez website, without the requirement of filing a labor claim or filing additional documents, when it affirmed that the employer violates the payment undertaking.

The violation is affirmed in a case of 30 days pass from the due date for the entire salary payment without paying it, or a passing of 90 days in a case of partial payment, while the payment shall be verified electronically through the technical link of “mudad” website which is approved for salaries management and the salaries protection program. For benefiting from the executive form, the court should be documented at Qiwa website according to the unified executive employment contract and the issuance of an executive number for the contract through the documentation website at the ministry of justice. The employer may object it or pay the salary in five days from the date of the enforcement application acceptance.

That initiative is a binding regulatory tool for the fast payment of salaries, and the enforceability of the contracting justice principle, in addition to the protection of labor rights, according to the objectives of the Saudi Vision 2030, for development and stability of job market.

Saudi Central Bank prohibits request for enforcement of promissory note when financing credit cards of individuals

Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) issues an official generalization that obliges finance authorities to stop requesting enforcement of promissory note or any commercial notes from individual customers at providing credit cards finance production, according to its supervisory and control role at the financial sector.

The Central Bank explains that the generalization is issued upon the authorizations granted to it according to the Saudi Central Bank system, banks control system, finance companies control system, in reference to the instructions for dealing with request for promissory note, in addition to the responsible finance principles for individuals, after observing the spread of irregular practices which are represented in the condition for having request of promissory note of customers, at granting credit cards finance.

The generalization asserts that finance authorities should undertake with all related laws and instructions, and should update their policies, procedures, and internal controls that ensure not demanding any irregular commercial guaranties at presenting that financial product.

The Central Bank points out that this direction shall be enforceable from 1^st February, 2026, while obliging financial authorities to provide it, through the department of customer protection supervision, with a plan for correcting the present situations not later than (30) thirty days from the generalization date, while the plan should include- at minimum- returning or terminating request of promissory notes or commercial notes which have been previously attained from individual customers, that contradict the generalization.

Also, the generalization asserts that the plan for situation correction shouldn’t be exceed six months from the date of the generalization issuance, asserting that in a case of failure to undertake with its content, the authority shall be exposed to disciplining according to the applicable laws and instructions.

Approving Sport Law Draft

Royal bylaw number (M/121) is issued on 10-06-1447H to approve the draft of the sport law, that represents a critical regulative step that aims at developing the sport sector, and raising its competence, in addition to reinforcing the principles of governance, and adapting a regulative environment that attracts investment according to the targets of the economic development and the KSA Vision 2030.

 The sports law represents a comprehensive legal framework that regulates varied sport identities, reinforces the concepts of professionalism and financial sustainability, and ensures rights protections at the sports system. The law establishes a group of essential legal principles that aim at regulating and upgrading the sports sector.

The law defines the sport identities which are governed by its rules, and which are represented in the Olympic and Paralympic Saudi Committee, sport federations, sport clubs, and links, asserting the independence of sport federations as non-governmental identities which enjoy the legal identity and financial and administrative independence. It is the concerned authority with managing and regulating its sport in the KSA according to the approved regulations and rules. Also, the law permits the clubs and the sport links to be transformed from non-profitable identities to sport companies, according to defined regulations that include registering the company and its articles of association at the national register of sport, undertaking with the minimum capital and undertaking with the regulations for foreign partner or investor participation. This direction represents a critical step towards privatization of the sport sector, reinforcing investment attractiveness and raising the level of competitiveness and financial sustainability.

For protecting human resources at the sport sector, the law obliges the ministry of sport in coordination with the public authority for social insurance and the insurance authority to register the players, the trainers and the employees at the sport sector, and providing the suitable insurance coverage to them. Also, the law regulates rights and liabilities of professional players and trainers that contribute in providing a stable and professional work environment at the sport system. For discipline and dispute resolution, the law reinforces sport justice and discipline through approving the Saudi Sport Arbitration Center which is a specialized authority for deliberating and resolving sport disputes, in addition to regulating violations and sanctions which may include financial sanctions, halting, or license termination, that reinforces compliance and transparency in the sport sector.

For the stage of complete compliance, the law obliges all individuals and identities governed by its rules to correct their situations according to its rules in one year from its enforceability law, while that period can be extended by a decree from the minister of sport. The first regulative step which is required from sport clubs, is to revise their legal and organizational positions, and evaluate the extent of their internal regulations and bylaws agreement with the new sport law, in addition to commencing restructuring and reorganizing them, and commercial transformation- when required- to ensure complete compliance before the completion of the situation correction term, and using the investment opportunities which are provided by the law.

Legal Information:

Taking the oath of legal identities

Legal identity- such as companies, foundations, associations and governmental authorities- are treated as an independent identity from natural identities that are in charge of them.

The oath can be directed to the legal identity through its legal representative or the one who manages the disputed work, as the legal identity doesn’t give the oath itself. The oath isn’t directed to the governmental authorities, as they represent the public interests, but it is enough to provide official documents and evidence.

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Saudi Central Bank “Sama” issues the executive bylaw for updated finance companies law

That is upon its supervisory and control role at the finance sector, and the continuous efforts to support the sector continuity and development.

The updates include regulating the requirements for practicing all finance activities, amending the finance sum which the company may file, in addition to supporting the companies that apply for license through amending the bank bond letter which is required at filing the license application. Also, the update includes revising the regulations concerning the related parties, and pointing out the cases of finance companies license termination.

The executive bylaw for updated finance companies control law supersedes the regulations for organizing small micro-consumption finance companies, and the regulations for practicing tiny finance activity, in addition to amending the regulations for activities that support finance activity.

Legal consequences:

Strict control on finance companies to ensure compliance to laws.

Raising the level of compliance and the regulative requirements of finance companies and establish clear and accurate licensing procedures that lessen legal disputes.

Relieving customer risks through regulating securities and controlling tiny finance activity through clear and flexible rules that support beneficiaries’ protection development.

Ministry of municipality and housing commences issuing the first invoice for white land charges from 1^st January, 2026

Ministry of municipality and housing asserts that the issuance of the first invoice for white land and vacant properties invoice in Riyadh will commence from the 1^st January, 2026 for the lands which are located at the covered geographical zones.

The ministry points out that the system allows the payer to apply for an additional period for development after the invoice issuance, according to the approved regulations. Also, he may object the invoice in 60 days from the date of notification, while his objection shall be decided in a similar period.

It points out that the charges are applied on the lands which are larger than (5,000) square meters inside the announced zones in Riyadh, upon five groups according to the urban development priority, in 2.5% to 10% of the land value.

The ministry states that the application of charges aims at motivating non-used lands development, limiting monopoly, and increasing property offers, that contributes in marker stability and achieving urban development and quality of life targets.

Legal consequences:

Application of a regulative financial undertaking for white land charges on the lands which are covered by the defined zone starting from 1^st January, 2026.

The buyer can apply for development additional period and the right of objection in 60 days, while the authority undertakes to decide it in a similar period.

Ministry of municipality and housing updates the conditions for private educational facilities for regulating establishing and operating national educational facilities

That update aims at:

Regulating the establishment and operation of educational facilities according to the Saudi Construction Code.

Reinforcing educational environment quality and safety standards.

Facilitating investment in the independent education.

Raising level of compliance and treating visual deformity.

Legal consequences:

Application of a binding undertaking on the owners and the establishers of the independent educational facilities for undertaking with new conditions which agree with the Saudi Construction code

The condition of having a license according to the updates regulations before establishing or operating the facilities, with strict control and compliance to the standards of safety and quality.Legal discipline in a case of violation, where the discipline may include halting the license, not renewing it or imposing sanctions.Best regulation of the independent education market that supports controlled investment and raising the level of compliance.

Ministry of environment, water and agriculture launches the service of leasing animal project

The service enable the tenant, whether an individual or business sector to have a permission for leasing animal project during the lease contract or the operational license term.

That service aims at:

Ensuring that the leasing process is made according to the regulations and the standards of the ministry that preserves the rights of the landlord and the tenant and achieves compliance to the laws.

Enabling both the landlord and the tenant to apply electronically for having the lease permission easily and quickly without the need to complicated paper procedures.

Legal consequences:

Documenting and regulating the contracting relationship between the project and the tenant through an approved regulative permission.

Protecting the rights of both parties through regulating the leasing contract by the ministry regulations and the compliance standards.

Decreasing disputes through confirming the tenant regulative capacity and the limitations of his responsibility through the contract / license term.

Reinforcing legality of any operational activity in the animal project and ensuring its compliance with regulations and instructions.

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Termination of the private sector foreign labor charges

The KSA terminates the charges imposed on the foreign labor at licensed industrial facilities that is according to a cabinet decree upon a recommendation of the economic affairs and development council. The decree aims at supporting national industrial facilities, reinforcing their international competitive capacity, and relieving operative burdens of factories.

Legal consequences:

Decreasing the expenses of industrial labor

Increasing foreign investment attraction to the industrial sector

It requires updating contracts and internal rules of establishments to ensure compliance to the new system.

New system for property foreign ownership that shall be commenced from January 2026

The Kingdom shall commence enforcing the property ownership of foreigners from 1^st January, 2006. The system shall allow non-Saudi residents to own on housing unit in most cities, with special exceptions in Mecca, Riyadh and Jeddah. It also allows foreign companies to own commercial, industrial and agricultural properties at the locations defined by the concerned authorities.

The system includes registration charges up to 5% of the property value, and sanctions that include fines up to 10 million riyals or the judicial sale of the property in a case of misleading information

Legal consequences:

A great transformation in the policy of foreigners’ ownership of properties that reinforces foreign investment in the Saudi real estate market, the necessity of updating real estate policies for foreign companies and investors before executing bargains

Application of a new selective tax system on sweetened beverages

Selective tax system shall be applied on sweetened beverages through a new graded form that depends on the sugar content per 100 millimeters, instead of the old system which is fixed on 50% of the price.

The system is applied in cooperation between tax authorities, ministry of industry, ministry of health, Zakat and Customs.

Legal consequences:

Beverage manufacturers and importers are required to update the product information and re-categorizing them according to the sugar content.

The new system aims at encouraging less sugar products and supporting public health policies.

Important updates to the labor law

Recent updates to the Saudi labor law for 2025 include:

Decreasing the period of litigation and the claims for wages and dues to three months unless there is fraud

A law is issued to oblige employers to file a detailed annual report about their undertakings with the Saudization ratio.

Strict new mechanisms are allocated for freelance contracts to ensure social and tax rights of employees.

Now, judgments of labor disputes settlement committee are enforceable directly through the enforcement courts without the necessity of waiting for years.

Legal consequences:

It reinforces rights of labors and decreases judicial delay.

It increases the compliance requirements for companies and decreases fraud in the Saudization system.

It provides legal explanation for applying new standards.

Saudi authorities announce amendments at the labor law that includes new financial sanctions on the businesses that violate operation rules, to include:

A fine up to 200,000 riyals is applied on the one who recruit people without a license.

A fine up to 250,000 riyals is applied on non-licenses recruiting services.

Fines from 10,000 to 20,000 riyals in a case an employer allows an employee to work at another region without a license.

Fines for non-compliance with maternity rights (for example, child care) from 1,000 to 3,000 riyals

Fines for not verifying internal investigations in misbehavior cases inside establishments

Legal consequences:

Reinforcing labor protection

Motivating companies to the compliance with recruiting and hiring procedures

Raising regulative responsibility of employers

“Legal Information”

Registration of property dealings at the property register is a binding condition to be enforceable at confronting others at the Saudi law, while no non-registered deal shall be alleged upon the application of the property registration law.

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General Authority of the Supreme Administrative Court decrees the administrative court authority to deliberate the grievances for violations of medical professions

General Authority of the Supreme Administrative Court held its meeting in the presidency of the supreme administrative court president, Sheikh Ali Bin Suleiman Alsawe, and issued its decree number (1) of 1447H, for the administrative court authority to deliberate the grievances for violations related to the application of medical professions system, at the Board of Grievances. This decree asserts the original role of administrative courts to deliberate administrative claims and the related committee decrees. That establishes a judicial fixed path which ensures litigation at two levels, and allows complainants to file their disputes to the concerned judicial authority since the first litigation stage.

Also, the decree embodies the supreme administrative court methodology in unifying the judicial principles and defining the authorities, that reinforces the quality of the judicial work and raises the competence of procedures. Also, that achieves cohesion in the application of the systems related to practicing medical professions and the related committees.

Definition of Electronic Signature According to the Electronic Transactions Law

According to the electronic transactions law, it is a form of formal signature but it is made in a digital method. It is used to confirm the identity of the signatory and to verify that he approves the content or the electronic transaction. The law also defines electronic signature as an approved method for confirming the identity and the approval of digital transactions. It indicates that the signature is not only a picture or writing but also it is an electronic data that is related logically to the transaction, so that any amendment to the document after signature shall be discovered, that ensures security and authentication of transactions. Also, the law acknowledges the electronic signature as a legally authenticated and correct signature, and considers it an approved means for confirming identity, and approving and protecting documents from any change.

Passports Department States that the Guardianship Deed Permits the Guardian to Issue and Renew the Passport of the Minor and to Issue Travel Permit Electronically even in Old Deed.

Passports Department issues an important notification about the procedures of the minors travel, asserting that the guardianship deed is a basic document that authorizes the guardian to complete all services related to the passports of the minors.

Passports department states through (X- website) that when there is a valid guardianship deed, an appointment can be reserved through the website and revising passports department for the completion of the procedures for issuing or renewing the passport of the minor without any obstacles. Also, the deed permits the guardian to issue the electronic passport of the minor directly through the approved websites, without the requirement of an additional approval from the other party.

The department adds that regulation includes old guardianship deeds which were issued before the amendments of the new regulations, even if they include any limiting statements, such as “non-travelling of the minor, asserting that this phrase doesn’t prevent the guardian from the completion of the formal procedures related to the travel, and that the guardianship deed itself is enough for confirming the eligibility.

Those explanations are of the passports department efforts to facilitate the travel of families and pointing out the regulatory rights of guardians that ensures hastening the completion of transactions and avoiding any complexities or misinterpretation of guardianship deeds.

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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.

Legal Information

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.

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:

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.