Article 1 of the Saudi Consumer Protection Association Statute

This is the definitions article, and it sets the meanings of the words that recur in the Statute, unless the context requires another meaning. The most important are:

• The Association: the Consumer Protection Association.
• The consumer: any natural or legal person who obtains a good or service, for consideration or without consideration, for personal needs or the needs of others. A consumer may be an individual or a body such as a company, and need not have paid a price, nor need the beneficiary be the consumer himself.
• The good: any industrial, plant, animal or processed product, including the raw elements of materials and components that enter into the product.
• The service: any work provided by any party to the consumer, for a fee or without a fee.
• The Council: the Executive Council of the Association.
• The General Secretariat: the General Secretariat of the Association.

These definitions matter because they determine the scope of the Association's work; whatever falls within the meaning of good or service, and whoever falls within the meaning of consumer, comes within the matters the Statute deals with. A free service, for example, falls within the definition just as a paid service does.

This definition is specific to this Statute, and other laws may define the consumer differently.