Article 19 of the Saudi Anti-Smoking Law

This article regulates the issuance of the law's Implementing Regulations, and it sets three elements:

• Issuing authority: the Minister of Health.
• Coordination: with the relevant bodies, which the text does not name.
• Period: within 6 months of the date the law is published.

The importance of the regulations in this law is that a number of its provisions refer to them for practical details, so their application is not complete until they are issued. For that reason the law tied their issuance to a specific period counted from the date of publication.

Note that the Minister of Health has another role in the law, as Article 18 provides for creating a bank account into which all fines collected under the law are paid to support awareness efforts and encourage civil associations to combat smoking, with spending from it made according to instructions issued by the Minister of Health.

The article does not state the content of the regulations or name the relevant bodies with which coordination takes place, so the details of the regulations must be found in their published text.