Article 31 of the Saudi Council of Ministers Law

This article sets the instrument by which the Council of Ministers' internal rules are issued, namely a royal order.

The importance of this provision is that the internal rules are not a secondary document the Council makes for itself, but are issued by royal order, and several articles of the Law of the Council of Ministers refer to them. This includes what the preceding Article 30 provides, that the internal rules set out the Council's administrative formations, their powers and how they carry out their work.

Note the difference between the instruments the Law uses:

• The Law of the Council of Ministers itself: the following Article 32 provides that it may be amended only in the way in which it was issued.
• The Council's internal rules: issued by royal order, under this article.

The article says nothing about how the internal rules are amended or about their content, so this should not be assumed from it. Anyone who wants to know the details of the Council's administrative formations or their powers should refer to the internal rules themselves, not to this article.

For the ordinary reader, this article helps in understanding that many organizational details of the Council's work are found in a separate document issued by royal order, and that the Law of the Council of Ministers sets the general rules while the internal rules handle the details it refers to.