Article 11 of the Saudi Classified Information Penal Law

This article identifies the body responsible for the law's Implementing Regulations and the time to issue them:

• The body: the National Center for Archives and Records.
• The period: within 90 days of the law's entry into force.

Note that the period is counted from the date of entry into force, not from the date of publication. Article 12 provides that the law takes effect 90 days after its publication in the Official Gazette.

The Center itself has other roles in the law: it issues the regulation of classified documents and their lists, which set the names of the documents, their classification levels and their subjects, under Article 1, in coordination with the relevant bodies.

The difference between the two is that the regulation of classified documents and its lists determine what is considered classified and its level of classification, while the Implementing Regulations deal generally with applying the provisions of the law. Hearing the offenses and imposing the penalty remains with the competent court under Article 10.

The article does not state the content of the Implementing Regulations, so anyone who needs details of application should refer to them, or consult a lawyer specializing in criminal cases.