Article 30 of the Saudi Council of Ministers Law

This article deals with the administrative bodies that assist the Council of Ministers in its work. In its current text it does not name these bodies, but refers to the Council of Ministers' internal rules to set out three matters:

1. Its administrative formations.
2. The powers of these formations.
3. How they carry out their work.

Development of the article's text: this article has gone through two amendments mentioned in the amendment record:

• By Royal Order No. (A/151) dated 3/9/1432 AH, its text came to state expressly that the Council's administrative formations include two bodies: the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers and the Bureau of Experts, and that the internal rules set out their formations, powers, how they carry out their work and their relations with the Royal Court.
• Then by Royal Order No. (A/141) dated 20/4/1440 AH it was amended to its current general text, which does not name particular bodies.

The current text thus left the determination of the administrative formations to the internal rules instead of naming them in the Law itself. This does not necessarily mean the bodies mentioned in the 1432 AH text were abolished; the current article does not speak to that, and the reference for it is the internal rules.

This article is linked to the following Article 31, which provides that the Council of Ministers' internal rules are issued by royal order, so the administrative formations are set in a regulation issued by this instrument. Before it is Article 29, which makes the King, as head of the Council, the director of general policy and supervisor of the Council and government bodies.