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:
Ben Arafa presents the most important legal developments of this week
According to Ben Arafa Law Group and Legal Consulting and Legitimacy interest update its clients about legal events, the following are the most important legal developments related to your commercial, labor and operational activities. Join us at the following legal journey that includes critical decrees and initiatives which are declared recently:
New updates in the Private Civil Guarding System
Ministry of interior announces amending article two of the executive bylaw for the civil guarding system. That decree aims at reinforcing security of a number of critical facilities. Upon the amendment, the identities which are obliged to provide private security guarding all time shall include hotels, banks, banking and money transfer shops, in addition to hospitals and jewelry shops which are located outside the obliged facilities. Also, the decree is applied on supermarkets and malls which include 30 shops or more or when they are larger than 3000 square meters, campuses for female employees at human resources companies, centers for selling and maintenance of vehicles and heavy equipment in the agencies which are larger than 2000 square meters, in addition to car showrooms which are larger than 2000 square meters. It is also applied on blocks and towers which include more than 50 housing or commercial units, housing compounds which include more than 10 villas or 50 housing units, in addition to amusement parks, and tourist facilities with an area of more than 2000 square meters, and any other identity which is obliged to by other regulations and bylaws. For factories and stores, they are obliged to file a security feasibility study in two months from the date of notification to allocate the security demands.
On the other hand, the decree defines other facilities which are obliged to provide security guarding at only the working hours, for example’; national and international educational and training facilities, weeding halls, clinics and national medical centers, the facilities which are licensed by the showrooms and conferences authority or the recreation authority during activity period, restaurants with an area of more than 1000 square meters, halls of female sport clubs, hyper and groceries which are larger than 2000 square meters, in addition to camps and pilgrim campuses at the holy places from the 1st to the 15th of Dhul-Hijjah each year.
The decree grants the general security director the authority of obliging other facilities with security guarding upon a report of the area police when the security demand requires. It is worth noting that the amendment includes the termination of the previous paragraph related to the allocation of guards work hours, which allocated them to be 8 daily hours, which are decreased to 6 hours in Ramadan upon the decree of the minister of labor for 1416H.
A motivating initiative from Saudi Water Authority for correcting violations
In a critical step for improving water resources management, Saudi water authority launched a motivating initiative that targets the beneficiaries of water and sanitary services through an irregular mechanism. It invites them to correct their situations in a three month term, starting from Sunday, the 18th May, 2025 to Monday, the 18th August of the same year. The authority asserts that the initiative discharges violators from financial sanctions, stating that trespassing water and sanitary networks affects negatively fair distribution of water, and causes a decrease in water pumping, in addition to sanitary water floods that represent a danger of public health and environment. The authority urges violators to correct their situations as soon as possible through the official channels of the water company, whether through its application on smart phones or through its electronic branch at the following link: https://ebranch.nwc.com.sa.
It points out that after the completion of the allocated period, it will take strict actions against any unauthorized connections, while a sanction up to 20 million riyals shall be imposed, to ensure justice and fairness between all beneficiaries of services.
Cabinet Decree for Amending Uncultivated Lands Charges System
The cabinet approves material amendments to the uncultivated land charges system issued by the royal bylaw number (M/33) dated to 18-7-1437H, to motivate urban development and use of vacant lands. Upon that amendment, the first paragraph or article two is amended to be as follows: annual charges are imposed on the uncultivated lands located at the urban boundaries, while the charges will be 5% to 10% of the land value, after the completion of two years from the date of land registration at the program or the system enforcement date whichever comes earlier, while the ministry has the authority to exempt some lands according to the bylaw regulations. Also, paragraph two of the same article is amended to state: the charges are calculated according to the market value of the land at the charges date through the mechanism allocated by the bylaw. Additionally, a new third paragraph is added to impose additional charges on the vacant lands which are registered at the program through the allocated period, according to the regulations defined by the executive bylaw. Those amendments are enforceable from the date of their publishing at the official gazette on the 12th of May, 2025, while the ministry will issue the executive bylaw in 90 days from that date.
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