Article 22 of the Saudi Civil Defense Law

This article places an explicit obligation on all administrative bodies: to build the necessary shelters within the buildings belonging to them.

The following is clear from the text:

• Who is addressed: administrative bodies, and the text covers all of them with the word "all". The article does not deal with private facilities.
• The nature of the provision: an obligation, since the text begins "All administrative bodies must".
• Where the shelters are: within the buildings belonging to these bodies.
• The controls: this is as the Civil Defense Council decides; the Council determines which shelters are "necessary" and their specifications, and the text does not state the details.

This article complements Article 21, which provides for building public shelters in parks, public squares, plazas and suitable crowded places according to rules, conditions and specifications the Council sets. Together the two articles cover shelters in public places and in administrative bodies' buildings.

Article 23 comes with a safety-related provision, providing for private companies and institutions to cooperate with the General Directorate of Civil Defense to verify the adequacy of firefighters, rescue personnel and equipment and the implementation of preventive safety rules.

The article is directed to government bodies, which are the ones who bear its implementation.