Article 19 of the Saudi Cooperative Health Insurance Law

This article specifies the publication of the Law and the dates it takes effect, and distinguishes between two kinds of provisions:

• Most provisions of the Law: implementation begins 90 days after the issuance of the Implementing Regulations.
• The provisions relating to the establishment of the Council of Health Insurance and its powers: they are considered in force from the date of the Law's publication in the Official Gazette.

The timeline becomes clear when reading Article 18, which requires the Minister of Health to issue the Implementing Regulations within a maximum of one year from the date the Law was issued; after they are issued, 90 days pass and then implementation of the Law begins. As for the provisions on the establishment of the Council and its powers, the text made them in force from the date of publication, without waiting for the regulations.

The practical meaning is that the other provisions of the Law, apart from those on the establishment of the Council and its powers, do not begin to be implemented with the publication of the Law, but 90 days after the issuance of the Implementing Regulations.

The article did not state the publication date or the date the regulations were issued, so learning the actual dates requires referring to these two dates.