Article 32 of the Saudi Council of Ministers Law

This article sets a rule protecting the Law of the Council of Ministers from amendment by a lower instrument: this Law may be amended only in the way in which it was issued.

This means that any amendment to the articles of the Law of the Council of Ministers must follow the same route taken in issuing the Law, by the same instrument. It is not valid for it to be amended by a decision, regulation or other instrument different from the one by which it was issued. The article does not name this instrument, so it is found by referring to the instrument by which the Law itself was issued.

This differs from the provision in the preceding Article 31, which provides that the Council of Ministers' internal rules are issued by royal order. Article 31 concerns the internal rules, while Article 32 concerns the Law of the Council of Ministers itself.

The importance of the article for the reader is that it explains why amendments to the articles of this Law come by the same instrument by which it was issued, and confirms the stability of the basic rules of the Council's work, so they change only through a procedure similar to the one that issued them.