LAWS AND REGULATIONS OVERVIEW

RELEVANT LAWS
(non-exhaustive list)


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1. Companies Law

2. Foreign Investment Law

3. Executive Regulations of Law of Foreign Investment

4. Mining Investment Law

5. Social Insurance Law

6. Income Tax Law

7. Law of Value Added Tax

8. The new government tenders and procurement system

9. Uniform GCC Customs Law

10. Excise Goods Tax Law

11. Law of Civil Procedures

12. Law of Criminal Procedure

13. Law of Patents, Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits, Plant Varieties, and Industrial Designs

14. Trademark Law of the States of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf

15. Competition Law officially known as “نظام المنافسة”

16. Law of the Judiciary

17. Commercial mortgage system officially known as “نظام الرهن التجاري”

18. Franchise Law

19. Telecommunication and Information Technology Act

20. Energy Supply Law officially known as “نظام إمدادات الطاقة”

21. Commercial Maritime Law

22. Enforcement Law

23. Bankruptcy Law

24. Private Sector Participation Law

25. Personal Data Protection Law

26. Movable Property Security Law

27. Labour Law

28. Law of Payments and Payment Services

29. SMEs Bank Law officially known as “نظام بنك المنشآت الصغيرة والمتوسطة”

1. Companies Law

Please see the original document for further information, or visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

2. Foreign Investment Law

This Law includes:

  • Foreign investment in the Kingdom in terms of conditions, procedures, privileges, and guarantees
  • Jurisdiction of the Supreme Economic Council for issuing a list of types of activities excluded from foreign investment
  • Foreign projects are entitled to privileges and incentives given to national projects
  • Rights, guarantees, and obligations of the foreign investor
  • Duties and authorities of the Ministry of Investment (formerly General Investment Authority)
  • Penalties for the violation of this Law, the deciding authority, and the complaints department
  • Provisions of settlement of disputes
  • Taxes
  • Ministry of Investment (formerly General Investment Authority) is in charge of issuing the regulations of this Law

Please see the original document for further information, or visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

3. Executive Regulations of Law of Foreign Investment

Please see the original document for further information.

 

4. Mining Investment Law

Please see the original document for further information, or visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

5. Social Insurance Law

This Law includes:

  • Branches of social insurance and their definitions
  • Scope of application
  • Administrative organization
  • Financial resources and organization
  • Compensations(compensations of professional risks branch, compensations of pension branch, provisions related to optional application on pension branch subscribers, joint provisions between professional risks and pension branches
  • General provisions
  • Transitional and final provisions

Please visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

6. Income Tax Law

This Law includes:

  • Imposing taxes on individual personal income and on incomes or profits gained from capital investments
  • Those who are subject to taxes
  • Tax rates
  • Amounts that are subject to taxes
  • Those who are exempted from taxes
  • This Law was carried out on 1/1/1370 AH

Please visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

7. Law of Value Added Tax

The VAT Law defines the introduction of VAT outlined in the Unified Agreement for VAT of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, it will be applied on 1st January 2018 (H1439/4/14). The VAT Law was officially approved and published on H1438/11/4.

Please see the original document for further information, or visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

8. The new government tenders and procurement system

Please visit the Ministry of Finance website for further information, or the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

9. Uniform GCC Customs Law

This Law includes:

  • Definitions, idioms and its legal implications.
  • Prohibitions.
  • Contrabands.

Please see the original document for further information, or visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

10. Excise Goods Tax Law

This Law outlines the mechanism to be followed to levy Excise Goods Tax as described in the GCC Unilateral Agreement for Excise Tax. The final draft of Excise Goods Tax Law was officially adopted and published in Um Al-Qura Newspaper.Please see the original document for further information, or visit the Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority website to explore more.

 

11. Law of Civil Procedures

Please visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

12. Law of Criminal Procedure

Please see the original document for further information, or visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

13. Law of Patents, Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits, Plant Varieties, and Industrial Designs

The objective of the Law,which is, “Providing complete protection for inventions in the Kingdom and determining the body authorized to grant patents (King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology).Please visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

14. Trademark Law of the States of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf

Please visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

15. Competition Law officially known as “نظام المنافسة”

Please visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

16. Law of the Judiciary

This Law includes:

  • Independence of judiciary and its guarantees.
  • Supreme Council of Justice.
  • Courts and their jurisdictions (courts arrangement – the Supreme Court - Court of Appeal – Courts of first instance – Courts jurisdiction) • Judges (judges’ employment and their promotion – Judges transfer, delegation and leaves – inspection on judges works – disciplining judges – judges’ end of service).
  • The Ministry of Justice.
  • Public notary (Public notary and its responsibilities).
  • Appointing notary public and inspecting them – the power of documents issued by the notary public)
  • Courts and notary public employees.
  • General and transitional provisions

Please visit the Ministry of Justice website for further information, or visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

17. Commercial mortgage system officially known as “نظام الرهن التجاري”

Please visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

18. Franchise Law

Please visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

19. Telecommunication and Information Technology Act

Issued under the Council of Ministers Resolution No. (592), dated 01/11/1443 AH and it was approved pursuant to the Royal Decree No. (M/106), dated 02/11/1443 H.Please see the original document for further information, or visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

20. Energy Supply Law officially known as “نظام إمدادات الطاقة”

Please visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

21. Commercial Maritime Law

Please visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

22. Enforcement Law

Please visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

23. Bankruptcy Law

The Bankruptcy Law work to regulate bankruptcy cases in Saudi Arabia. There are seven main procedures that are connected to different bankruptcy cases, and they have been implemented in Saudi Commercial Courts.Please visit the Bankruptcy Commission website for further information, or visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

24. Private Sector Participation Law

Please visit the National Centre for Privatization & PPP website for further information, or the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

25. Personal Data Protection Law

Please see the original document for further information, or visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

26. Movable Property Security Law

Please visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

27. Labour Law

This Law includes:

  • Definitions and general provisions.
  • Organization of employment processes.
  • Employment of non-Saudi.
  • Training and qualifying.
  • Work relations.
  • Work conditions and circumstances.
  • Part-time work.
  • Protection from work risks, accidents, and injuries.
  • Health and social services.
  • Employment of women.
  • Employment of youngsters.
  • Marine employment contract.
  • Working in mines and quarries.
  • Work Inspection.
  • Commissions for the Settlement of Labour Disputes.
  • Penalties.
  • Final provisions.

Please see the original document for further information, or visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

28. Law of Payments and Payment Services

Please see the original document for further information, or visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 

29. SMEs Bank Law officially known as “نظام بنك المنشآت الصغيرة والمتوسطة”

Please visit the Bureau Of Experts (BOE) website to explore more.

 


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