In force Last amended 7/4/1444 AH
Saudi Implementing Regulations of the Arbitration Law
اللائحة التنفيذية لنظام التحكيم
The regulations cover the meaning of the terms used, the competent court of appeal for the dispute, an arbitrator stepping aside when a challenge is filed, depositing a copy of the arbitrator's contract, completing the arbitration request, and the competent court choosing an arbitrator when the parties do not agree on one.
- Articles
- 19
- In force
- 18
- Amended
- 1
- Issued
- 26/8/1438 AH
Issued by: قرار مجلس الوزراء رقم 541 بتاريخ 26 / 8 / 1438
Each article shows the official Arabic text, which is the only legally binding version, followed by our plain-English explanation.
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Articles of the Saudi Implementing Regulations of the Arbitration Law
- Article 1Article 1 of the Regulations defines "the Law" as the Arbitration Law and "the Regulations" as the Implementing Regulations of the Arbitration Law.
- Article 2The article provides that "the competent court" under the Arbitration Law and its Regulations is the court of appeal originally competent to hear the dispute, except in cases excluded by specific articles of the Law.
- Article 3The article makes notice effective by electronic means, starts time periods the day after notice, and extends a deadline falling on an official holiday to the next working day.
- Article 4The article requires a party asking the competent court to appoint an arbitrator to attach a copy of the request for arbitration and a copy of the arbitration agreement.
- Article 5The article allows an arbitrator to step down when his recusal is requested without giving reasons and without this being an admission, and bars accepting a recusal request after the close of pleadings.
- Article 6The article suspends arbitration proceedings when an arbitrator's mission ends in the cases in Article 19 of the Law, except by recusal, until a substitute arbitrator is appointed.
- Article 71- تودع نسخة من العقد المبرم مع المحكم - بحسب الأحوال - لدى مركز التحكيم السعودي، أو لدى هيئة أو منظمة أو مركز للتحكيم. 2- للمحكمة - عند…Repealed
- Article 8The article requires the arbitral tribunal, if it chooses the procedures itself because the parties did not agree on them, to notify the parties of those procedures at least ten days before they take effect.
- Article 9The article lists the particulars a request for arbitration must contain, and provides that a dispute over their sufficiency does not prevent the arbitral tribunal from being formed, and the tribunal decides it.
- Article 10If the tribunal is to have a sole arbitrator and the parties do not agree on him, the competent court selects him at the request of whoever wants speedy action, within fifteen days of the request.
- Article 11If there are several parties to the arbitration, the proceedings begin on the day the last party receives the request for arbitration.
- Article 12The article sets what the tribunal's decision appointing an expert must state, the effect of not depositing the advance for his expenses, and the tribunal's power if the expert is late with his report without an acceptable excuse.
- Article 13The article allows the arbitral tribunal to accept a non-party intervening in the arbitration or being brought in, after the consent of the parties and of the party to be brought in.
- Article 14The chair of the arbitral tribunal pronounces the award after pleadings are closed, and the tribunal may reopen pleadings after closing and before pronouncing the award by a decision notified to the parties.
- Article 15The arbitration agreement does not lapse when the tribunal issues a decision terminating the arbitration proceedings, unless the parties agree otherwise.
- Article 16The provisions the Law sets for an arbitral award apply to an additional arbitral award, except those on the period for issuing the additional award.
- Article 17The article makes the Supreme Court the forum for appeal against a judgment annulling an arbitral award, and the competent body referred to in paragraph (3) of Article 55 of the Law.
- Article 18An annulment action is not accepted from someone who waived their right to it after the arbitral award was issued, and the claimant of annulment attaches the award or a certified copy, the arbitration agreement and a translation where needed.
- Article 19The article provides that the Regulations of the Arbitration Law are published in the Official Gazette and take effect from the date of their publication.