Article 11 of the Saudi Bankruptcy Law

المادة 11 من نظام الإفلاس · الفصل الثاني: لجنة الإفلاس إنشاء لجنة الإفلاس وتحديد اختصاصاتها

Article 11 allows the Bankruptcy Committee to use whichever experts and specialists it sees fit, and to delegate whomever it sees fit to carry out some of its administrative and executive jurisdictions.

Official text (Arabic)

This article has not been amended since the law was issued.

للجنة الإفلاس في أداء مهماتها ما يأتي:

أ- الاستعانة بمن تراه من الخبراء والمختصين.

ب- تفويض من تراه لتنفيذ بعض اختصاصاتها الإدارية والتنفيذية.

This is the official Arabic wording, the only legally binding version. We do not translate the law itself; the explanation below is ours. Official source: Bureau of Experts at the Council of Ministers

Article 11 explained in plain English

This article gives the Bankruptcy Committee two practical tools that help it perform its tasks:

Using experts and specialists: the Committee may use whichever people of experience and specialization it sees fit, since bankruptcy procedures often require precise accounting, financial or technical knowledge.
Delegation: the Committee may delegate whomever it sees fit to carry out some of its jurisdictions, on condition that these jurisdictions are administrative and executive.

Note that the text limited delegation to some administrative and executive jurisdictions, and did not make it cover all of the Committee's jurisdictions; the article did not specify who may be delegated or the form of delegation, but left that to the Committee's judgment.

This article is connected to Article 10, which provides for issuing the Committee's working rules by decision of the Minister and establishing a general secretariat for it, and to Article 12, which makes it the Ministry's responsibility to provide the Committee's financial resources, including allocations for contracting with experts, specialists and employees. Article 11 gives the power to use experts, and Article 12 provides the funding needed for that.

This article is organizational, relating to the Committee's work, and does not create direct rights for debtors or creditors.

Translated from our Arabic explanation with machine assistance. For guidance only; it does not replace advice from a lawyer on your situation.

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