In force Last amended 24/8/1445 AH
Saudi Implementing Regulations of the Criminal Procedure Law
اللائحة التنفيذية لنظام الإجراءات الجزائية
The Implementing Regulations of the Criminal Procedure Law of Saudi Arabia. This page presents the official Arabic text of each article with plain-English explanations for residents and businesses.
- Articles
- 181
- In force
- 181
- Amended
- 2
- Issued
- 21/3/1436 AH
Issued by: قرار مجلس الوزراء رقم (142) بتاريخ 21 / 3 / 1436
Each article shows the official Arabic text, which is the only legally binding version, followed by our plain-English explanation.
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Criminal Case and Its Lapse12 articlesCriminal Seizure and Arresting the Accused12 articlesRights of the Accused and Detainee21 articlesAppointing a Lawyer at State Expense4 articlesSearching Persons and Homes10 articlesSeizing Letters and Monitoring Calls5 articlesInvestigation and Inspection Procedures16 articlesInterrogating the Accused and Hearing Witnesses18 articlesDetention and Temporary Release14 articlesSeized Items and Their Return15 articlesCase Closure and Criminal Jurisdiction15 articlesCriminal Trial Procedures34 articlesPrivate Claim and Compensation15 articlesCriminal Judgments and Nullity of Procedures9 articlesObjecting to Criminal Judgments13 articlesExecuting Criminal Judgments23 articlesDefinitions and General Provisions9 articles
Articles of the Saudi Implementing Regulations of the Criminal Procedure Law
الباب الأول: التعريفاتArticles 1–1
الباب الثاني: الدعوى الجزائيةArticles 2–11
- Article 2The article requires the Authority to notify the court in writing of the names of the authorized public prosecutors, and explains that conducting the public case includes presenting evidence, producing it, and bearing the burden of proof.
- Article 3The article explains that the case meant in Article 16 of the Law is the private criminal case, and governs how the defendant and the public prosecutor are notified in it.
- Article 4The article defines crimes requiring a private right of individuals as those whose harm is confined to the victim, and explains the effect of a complaint where there are several victims or accused.
- Article 5The article explains that the victim and heir meant in Article 18 of the Law are those with limited or no legal capacity, and requires recording what the court does when their interest conflicts with their representative's.
- Article 6The article explains that the case mentioned in Article 19 of the Law is the public case, and sets how the court notifies whoever brought it and his duty to inform the court of what he did.
- Article 7The article explains that the acts mentioned in Article 20 of the Law are those occurring outside the session, and sets referral to a larger number of judges when needed and hearing them in a separate record.
- Article 8The article explains the in-law relationship and the enmity that bar a member of the Authority from handling a case, and lets any opponent request disqualification of the investigator before or during the investigation.
- Article 9The article provides that the private criminal case is considered brought from the date the statement of claim submitted by the claimant is registered at the court.
- Article 10The article states what is issued when the public case lapses before being brought, either filing the papers or filing the case, and that lapse does not prevent investigation, confiscation or proceeding against the other accused.
- Article 11The article provides that the pardon of some victims or heirs does not prevent the others' case from continuing, and requires observing Article 29 of the Law and Article 17 of the Regulations when the pardon is ratified.
الباب الثالث: إجراءات الاستدلالArticles 12–41
- Article 12The article clarifies that the competent body referred to in Article 25 of the Law is the body to which the criminal investigation officer belongs.
- Article 13The article explains that criminal investigation work under paragraph 2 of Article 26 of the Law is carried out by police directors as well as the individuals and persons assigned to assist them.
- Article 14The article allows the criminal investigation officer to seek the help of other public authority personnel whenever the matter requires it during the performance of his duties.
- Article 15The article requires criminal investigation officers to accept reports and complaints in all crimes, oral or written, from a known or unknown source, and regulates referral and the register of reports.
- Article 16The article sets the contents of the officer's record on going to the scene of the crime, requires him to show his identity, and regulates acting outside his jurisdiction, informing the Authority and continuing inquiries.
- Article 17The article explains the effect of the private-right claimant waiving his right on bringing the public case, and regulates ratifying and recording the waiver of qisas and the slander hadd penalty.
- Article 18The article prevents the criminal investigation officer from obstructing first aid to the injured at the scene of the crime on the pretext of drawing up the record under Article 32 of the Law.
- Article 19The article defines the sufficient evidence in Article 33 of the Law as strong indications and signs assessed by the officer, and sets the contents of the memorandum informing the Authority of arresting a person caught in the act.
- Article 20The article fixes the start of the twenty-four-hour period in Article 34 of the Law: from the time of arrest for the criminal investigation officer, and from the time the accused reaches him for the investigator.
- Article 21The article sets the contents of an arrest order, regulates entering a home to carry it out, overcoming resistance, searching the arrested person, and isolating him in serious crimes.
- Article 22The article requires informing the accused on arrest or detention of its reasons, his right to a representative or lawyer, and his right to contact whomever he wishes to notify, and obtaining his signature.
- Article 23The article explains that enabling a detainee to contact whomever he wishes to notify is by the method the officer or investigator assesses, and that notifying the detained employee's superior is done by whoever ordered his continued detention.
- Article 24The article sets the grounds for detention during investigation, requires the detention department to notify the issuing body before the period ends and release at once if no extension comes, and governs detaining women and juveniles.
- Article 25The article regulates the Authority's oversight of prisons and detention places, what to do on finding someone held unlawfully, receipt of complaints, the daily report, and the contents of the registers.
- Article 26The article requires the prison or detention director to draw up a record of an oral complaint and report it to the Authority's member, and requires visiting members to check the complaints register and sign it.
- Article 27The article allows reporting orally or in writing a person held unlawfully or in an undesignated place even if the reporter has no interest, and requires the Authority to send a member at once.
- Article 28The article sets who issues the order to search homes and the permit to search other places, what they must contain, a period of no more than seven days, and requires that a crime has actually occurred for a search to be valid.
- Article 29The article governs delegating an officer to search, bars carrying out a search after its period or more than once, requires informing the homeowner, and bars searching a non-accused without sufficient evidence.
- Article 30The article explains the scope of searching the accused under Article 43 of the Law, allows lawful means if he refuses, and sets controls for searching a female accused.
- Article 31The article requires the search to stop as soon as the items related to the crime for which the search was permitted are found.
- Article 32The article requires the district mayor or equivalent to attend a home search at the searcher's request if the owner, his representative or a family member cannot attend.
- Article 33The article requires a search record to be drawn up even if nothing is seized, and sets its language, the conditions for its soundness, and its additional contents.
- Article 34The article requires the name, identity details and address of the woman accompanying a search of a home occupied only by the accused woman to be recorded, along with her statement where necessary.
- Article 35The article regulates sealing and guarding after a search, securing weapons, explosives, narcotics, cash and jewelry, handing over seized items, and the ban on disposing of them without the Bureau's permission.
- Article 36The article makes breaking the seals on containers of seized items the investigator's task after checking the seal is intact, with a report, resealing, and inviting the accused, his agent or the person from whom the items were seized.
- Article 37The article provides that the rule in Article 56 of the Criminal Procedure Law covers modern, non-public electronic means of communication.
- Article 38The article requires that seized messages, letters, printed matter and parcels be recorded in a report, and provides that seizure or monitoring ends once its purpose is achieved.
- Article 39The article obliges the competent bodies to provide all available resources when the head of the Bureau orders correspondence to be seized or permits phone conversations to be monitored and recorded.
- Article 40The article makes notifying the accused of the contents of letters, postal and telegraph messages under Article 59 of the Law the task of the investigator or whoever he delegates.
- Article 41The article gives a person harmed by the disclosure, without legal justification, of information about seized items and papers by anyone referred to in Article 61 of the Law the right to sue before the competent court.
الباب الرابع: إجراءات التحقيقArticles 42–88
- Article 42The article requires an order to archive papers to be written and reasoned, and makes archiving before any investigation procedure an administrative act that the Bureau may reverse at any time.
- Article 43The article requires the investigator to notify the victim and the private claimant, or their heirs, of the order to archive papers in writing, with the person notified signing to acknowledge it in a special register.
- Article 44The article sets the conditions for the validity of the delegation in Article 66 of the Law, and explains when the delegated officer must be named and when identifying his job function is enough.
- Article 45The article makes the delegate responsible for assessing the fear of running out of time referred to in Article 67 of the Law, subject to the Bureau's oversight.
- Article 46The article directs inquiries from government bodies to the Bureau or the body handling the case, without anything that may affect the investigation, and provides that the Bureau informing them is not a disclosure of secrets.
- Article 47The article regulates adding the private claimant's claim to the case file, attendance at investigation procedures and barring it when necessary, multiple lawyers, and the duty not to disclose investigation secrets.
- Article 48The article sets the details required in a notice to the court administration under Article 72 of the Law, and refers to paragraph 2 of Article 106 of the Regulations for what the court administration does.
- Article 49The article requires litigants' requests during an investigation to be written, dated and signed, to be decided by the investigator within five days or 24 hours if urgent, and to be recorded in the report.
- Article 50The article requires the investigator's delegation of an expert to be written, stating the task and its time limit, under the investigator's oversight, and regulates giving the expert access to evidence and his duty to perform the task himself.
- Article 51The article sets the content of the expert's report, the case of several experts who differ, the investigator's discussion with the expert, a litigant's expert's right to review materials, and adding reports to the case file.
- Article 52The article leaves assessing urgent cases to the investigator, bars repeating an objection to an expert once rejected unless new grounds arise, and allows raising it before the court.
- Article 53The article provides that doubt about the investigator's jurisdiction, or a dispute over it, does not stop him from going at once to inspect the scene of a major crime, and requires him to inform the head of his department if he cannot go.
- Article 54The article makes inspecting the crime scene the investigator's own task, with the option of delegating a criminal investigation officer, directs forensic experts to lift traces, and allows re-inspection with reasons.
- Article 55The article sets what the investigator does on reaching the crime scene: inspecting, recording and hearing initial information, with the option of sealing places, and requires seizing and securing whatever relates to the crime.
- Article 56The article permits the investigator to examine the sites of the offense on the victim's body, except where the site is a male's or a minor's private parts or the victim is a woman, in which case he delegates a suitable person.
- Article 57The article requires the investigator to go to a government body to review case-related documents that cannot be moved, and allows him to take copies after the competent official approves.
- Article 58The article provides that seizing, attaching and inquiring about funds and balances at banks during the investigation is by a request to the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority from the head of the Bureau's branch or an authority entitled to make it.
- Article 59The article makes the investigator's refraining from seizing correspondence between the accused and his agent or lawyer, and papers he hands them, conditional on its relating to carrying out the task of defending him in the case.
- Article 60The article requires the investigator to issue an order attaching items seized during the investigation if they are subject to confiscation.
- Article 61This article of the Regulations requires the investigator to take what is necessary to destroy seized items whose possession is prohibited by sharia or law, or to demand confiscation of those subject to confiscation.
- Article 62This article of the Regulations specifies who is competent to return seized items: the investigator before the case is filed with the court, and the head of the judicial circuit after it is filed.
- Article 63This article of the Regulations specifies the competent court referred to in Article 90 of the Law, and what it does where seized items are disputed or it is doubtful who is entitled to receive them.
- Article 64This article of the Regulations requires owners of seized items to be notified of their right to recover them under the notification rules, and allows, where that is not possible, an announcement in a widely circulated local newspaper or by any other means that achieves the purpose.
- Article 65This article of the Regulations makes the court of the place of investigation the competent court, and requires it to refer litigants to the locally competent court if it decides to refer them to litigate and lacks local jurisdiction.
- Article 66This article of the Regulations requires the seizing body to state in the seizure reports which items are quick to spoil and which require large expense to keep.
- Article 67This article of the Regulations regulates hearing a witness before the investigator: notifying him, interpretation, deficient capacity, a reasoned refusal to hear him, and how his testimony is taken and discussed.
- Article 68This article of the Regulations requires the witness's testimony and answers to be recorded verbatim, and the interpreter's name, those present, and the place and time of the testimony to be recorded in the investigation report.
- Article 69This article of the Regulations allows the investigator to prevent witnesses from communicating with each other, explains the two methods of confrontation and what is recorded in it, and allows a witness's identity to be concealed where needed.
- Article 70This article of the Regulations leaves the assessment of a witness's excuse for not attending to the investigator, and allows him to delegate someone else to hear a witness living outside his territorial jurisdiction, or to hear him himself with approval.
- Article 71This article of the Regulations allows recording the accused's appointment of his lawyer for the investigation stage, requires investigating a legal person through its legal representative, and requires a specialist's presence in domestic violence cases where needed.
- Article 72This article of the Regulations details the contents of the accused's interrogation report and how it is written and signed, how he is questioned on confession or denial, and what happens if he refuses to answer or sign.
- Article 73This article of the Regulations requires the necessity of interrogating the accused outside the investigating body's premises to be recorded in the report, and obliges the detaining body to transfer him or facilitate interrogating him at its premises.
- Article 74This article of the Regulations provides that the accused's confession is validated by a judicial circuit competent by subject matter, and requires the confession and what appears about his capacity to be recorded in the court record.
- Article 75This article of the Regulations requires the person required for investigation to be notified of the summons at least 24 hours before the investigation unless urgency requires otherwise, with the recipient's signature taken or his refusal noted.
- Article 76This article of the Regulations provides that issuing an order of arrest and bringing under Article 107 of the Law does not necessarily mean the accused is detained.
- Article 77This article of the Regulations requires the investigator to issue an order placing an arrested person in the place of detention if he cannot be interrogated at once, recording the reason, and allows another investigator to be assigned if the reason lies with the investigator.
- Article 78This article of the Regulations requires the investigator, as soon as he learns of the accused's objection to transfer or that his health does not permit it, to order release, continued detention, delegation or transfer.
- Article 79This article of the Regulations specifies the details a detention order must contain, including the accused's name, the type of crime, the reasons for the order and the period of detention.
- Article 80This article of the Regulations requires a copy of the detention order to be kept in the case file and the detainee to be enabled to file a grievance, and specifies the body to which the grievance is submitted according to who issued the order or extension.
- Article 81This article of the Regulations requires the reason for arresting or detaining the accused to be set out in a report in which the accused signs that he was informed of the reason, and his refusal to be recorded if he refuses.
- Article 82This article of the Regulations provides that the total of the periods of orders barring the accused's contact and visits may not exceed 60 days, and that his contact with his agent or lawyer is with the investigator's knowledge during them.
- Article 83This article of the Regulations makes it a condition for issuing a temporary release order under Article 120 of the Law that the evidence against the accused not be sufficient in a major crime.
- Article 84This article of the Regulations requires an accused person temporarily released by the investigator's order to undertake to attend when asked, and to designate a place to receive notices in the town of the court with territorial jurisdiction over the investigation.
- Article 85This article of the Regulations provides that issuing a new order to arrest or detain the accused under Article 122 of the Law follows the procedures in the Law and the Regulations, without prejudice to the periods in Article 114 of the Law.
- Article 86This article of the Regulations regulates the court's decision to release a detained accused or detain a released one, the contents of the release decision, notifying the Bureau of it, and the effect of the public prosecutor's objection.
- Article 87This article of the Regulations requires an investigation procedure to precede archiving of a case, and regulates notifying the heirs of the private claimant of the archiving order.
- Article 88This article of the Regulations requires the public prosecutor to include in the statement of the case what was done about seized items and his requests regarding them, and regulates supplementary investigation after the case is filed.
الباب الخامس: المحاكمArticles 89–93
- Article 89This article of the Regulations provides that releasing the accused after the case is filed does not change territorial jurisdiction based on his place of detention, and regulates where the case is brought against a released accused.
- Article 90This article of the Regulations provides that the court hearing a criminal case decides all matters on which judgment in the case depends, even if it lacks subject-matter or territorial jurisdiction over them.
- Article 91This article of the Regulations leaves it to the court hearing the case to assess whether judgment in a criminal case depends on the result of another criminal case, and requires it, if it stays the case, to inform the other court.
- Article 92This article of the Regulations provides that if a court or circuit finds it lacks jurisdiction it refers the case by decision to the competent one, and if the second also finds it lacks jurisdiction the matter goes to the Supreme Court to designate the competent one.
- Article 93This article of the Regulations requires that if a case is brought before two courts or circuits and each decides it has jurisdiction, they stop hearing it and send the papers to the Supreme Court to designate the competent one.
الباب السادس: إجراءات المحاكمةArticles 94–138
- Article 94The article leaves it to the competent judicial circuit to assess the necessity that allows shortening the time to appear, and the length of the extension the accused requests to prepare a defense.
- Article 95If the accused's place of residence cannot be found after adequate searching, the bailiff draws up a detailed report, and the bailiffs' department hands a copy of the notice to the emirate, governorate or center responsible for the place of notification.
- Article 96The article regulates an accused's request in serious crimes for a lawyer appointed at state expense: the contents of the request, the circuit's review, its final decision, and the consequences of refusal or acceptance.
- Article 97The appointed lawyer receives a certificate for each hearing he attends so his fees can be paid by the Ministry of Justice, and he may not take any payment from the accused.
- Article 98The article sets that the accused may not send an agent in his place in serious-crime cases, and regulates the effect of his absence, acceptance of his excuse, and the related detention order.
- Article 99When judging the accused who are present, the court states the names of the convicted who are present and those absent, and continues hearing the case against the absent person when he appears, in the same record.
- Article 100The article requires recording any disruption of courtroom order in a report or the case record, and drawing up the imprisonment order of the disruptor by official letter sent to the competent authority for execution.
- Article 101If the court decides to try someone who assaulted its panel, one of its members or its employees while in session, it records this in the original case record and issues judgment in a separate instrument.
- Article 102If the court decides to hear an offense based on Article 144 of the Law, it applies Article 101 of the Regulations; if it refers the offense to the Bureau or another court, it draws up a detailed report attached to the file.
- Article 103If the public criminal case expires before a private-right claim is filed for one of the reasons in Article 22 of the Law, the right to claim the private right remains before the competent court.
- Article 104The court hearing the criminal case appoints a guardian for a person lacking full capacity who was harmed by the crime and has no guardian or trustee; the guardianship is limited to the case and recorded in its record without an instrument.
- Article 105When the court appoints a guardian for an accused who lacks full capacity based on Article 149 of the Law, it observes what is set in Article 104 of the Regulations.
- Article 106The court administration prepares a record for each private-right claimant and notifies him at the place he designated in the court's town; otherwise it lodges the notice in a special file.
- Article 107If a party presents his pleading in a written memorandum, a summary of it is recorded in the case record and the memorandum is attached to the file, unless the circuit sees fit to record its full text.
- Article 108The public prosecutor must attend public-right hearings in crimes where death, stoning or amputation is demanded and where the court requests his attendance, without affecting his right to attend in others.
- Article 109If the court decides to remove the accused from the session under Article 157 of the Law, it records this in the case record with reasons, and also records allowing him to attend afterwards.
- Article 110The article clarifies that the case meant in Article 158 of the Criminal Procedure Law is the public criminal case.
- Article 111The public prosecutor's request to amend his statement of claim is made by a supplementary letter or orally at the hearing, and the court assesses adequate opportunity for the accused to prepare his defense on the amendment.
- Article 112If the accused does not understand Arabic, the statement of claim is read to him at the hearing in his language, and the case record notes that he received a copy of it.
- Article 113If the accused answers the charge with an irrelevant answer, he is treated as refusing to answer under Article 162 of the Law, and Article 168 of the Law is observed when the parties question witnesses.
- Article 114Whatever any party requests under Article 163 of the Law is recorded in the case record, and if the court rejects the request it records that with the reasons for rejection.
- Article 115A witness in the public criminal case is summoned through the public prosecutor when he relies on the witness's testimony, and the court may summon him when needed in the way it sees fit.
- Article 116If a witness fails to attend without an accepted excuse, the court may order him to attend in a suitable way that does not harm him; if he is a public employee and the testimony is part of his work, it writes to his authority to compel and hold him accountable.
- Article 117When a witness who gave statements he knows to be untrue is punished at the court's discretion under Article 166 of the Law, Article 144 of the Law and Article 102 of the Regulations are observed.
- Article 118If the court sees no benefit in hearing testimony in one of the two cases in Article 167 of the Law, it records that and the reason in the case record, and may request a medical report on the witness's condition.
- Article 119Whoever tries to intimidate or disturb witnesses while they give testimony is treated under Article 142 of the Law and Article 100 of the Regulations.
- Article 120If the case requires the court to move to the scene of the crime or elsewhere to inspect, hear testimony or verify something, a report is drawn up, signed by those present, its text is transferred to the case record and the original lodged in the file.
- Article 121This article of the Regulations requires orders of the court issued under Article 170 of the Law, and their reasons, to be recorded in the case record, and regulates keeping seized items and giving a receipt to whoever submitted a document.
- Article 122This article of the Regulations explains that if the court needs an expert's opinion or a competent authority's statement, it sends it a letter stating what is required together with copies of the necessary papers.
- Article 123This article of the Regulations allows the parties to submit what they want added to the case file, dated and signed, and requires the public prosecutor to notify the circuit in writing as soon as firm exculpatory evidence appears.
- Article 124This article of the Regulations provides that a private-right claimant not claiming his right, or being absent after claiming it, does not prevent the court from hearing the case and deciding the public prosecutor's requests.
- Article 125This article of the Regulations allows a challenge for forgery against any evidence in the case, made orally during the hearing or in writing, and recorded in the case record.
- Article 126This article of the Regulations sets the court's procedures after a challenge for forgery: staying the case with reasons, referring the papers sealed, stating reasons for not verifying, and the court that hears the incidental claim.
- Article 127This article of the Regulations requires that the report prepared on the court's judgment that an official paper, in whole or in part, is forged, under Article 178 of the Law, be included in the case record.
- Article 128This article of the Regulations requires a judge who is barred from ruling because the judgment would run contrary to his knowledge to record that in the case record and inform his direct superior.
- Article 129This article of the Regulations regulates the court's deferring decision on the requests of the private-right claimant or the accused under Article 180 of the Law, how they are later heard, and their statement in the judgment.
- Article 130This article of the Regulations sets the contents of the draft criminal judgment, the rules on a judge's absence and the accused's attendance at the reading of the judgment, determining the criminal description, and drafting the instrument.
- Article 131This article of the Regulations defines the certified copy of the judgment, and sets how a final judgment is officially notified and the Bureau informed, while preserving the parties' right to know it is final.
- Article 132This article of the Regulations provides that the court hears the parties' requests about seized items in the criminal case record, and that referring the dispute to the competent court is recorded with reasons.
- Article 133This article of the Regulations requires the seizing authority to identify perishable or costly-to-keep seized items, and regulates early execution of a judgment disposing of them, their delivery and taking an undertaking.
- Article 134This article of the Regulations provides that if the court decides to remove real estate from the person holding it and keep it at its disposal under Article 185 of the Law, it orders that, records it and writes to the execution authority.
- Article 135This article of the Regulations clarifies that the criminal case in Article 186 of the Law is the public case, and sets when a copy of a previous judgment is certified and the form of the court's certificate of it.
- Article 136This article of the Regulations refers, where the majority needed for judgment is not available, to Article 162 of the Law of Sharia Procedure, and regulates a judge assigned to complete the circuit's quorum taking part.
- Article 137This article of the Regulations interprets the "composition of the court" in Article 188 of the Law as the number of judges required to hear the case under Article 20 of the Judiciary Law.
- Article 138This article of the Regulations provides that a judgment of not hearing the case for a fundamental defect that cannot be corrected is recorded and an objectionable instrument issued, and the corrected case is heard by the same circuit.
الباب السابع: طرق الاعتراض على الأحكامArticles 139–150
- Article 139This article of the Regulations requires recording that the parties were informed of their right to object, its period and the effect of missing it, and gives the public prosecutor and the private-right claimant the right to object to an unfixed discretionary penalty.
- Article 140This article of the Regulations provides that an objector's withdrawal of his objection neither reduces the objection period nor loses his right to it unless that period passes.
- Article 141This article of the Regulations explains the effect of not submitting the objection within its period: for a judgment not subject to mandatory review the right to appeal or review is lost and it becomes final, and for one subject to mandatory review the right to submit the memorandum is lost.
- Article 142This article of the Regulations requires the objection to be submitted by a memorandum under paragraph 1 of Article 195 of the Law, lodged with the court that issued the judgment within the period, and allows more than one memorandum on conditions.
- Article 143This article of the Regulations requires the circuit that issued the challenged judgment to record in the case record that it has seen the objection memorandum.
- Article 144This article of the Regulations requires the Court of Appeal to annotate the substance of its judgments and final decisions on first-instance judgments, and to notify the first-instance court to transfer this to the case record and judgment register.
- Article 145This article of the Regulations provides that affirming or reversing judgments is for the competent circuit of the Supreme Court, unanimously or by majority, and regulates referring the case returned after reversal.
- Article 146This article of the Regulations provides that the Supreme Court's hearing of matters attached to judgments of death, stoning, amputation or retribution for life or less is by circuits of five judges.
- Article 147This article of the Regulations provides that a judgment of death, stoning, amputation or retribution, if reversed by the Supreme Court and a new judgment issued and brought to it, is heard by the circuit that previously heard it.
- Article 148This article of the Regulations provides that if the Supreme Court reverses a judgment a second time under Article 202 of the Law, the circuit hearing the objection may assess that the subject matter, as it stands, is fit for judgment.
- Article 149This article of the Regulations allows any party to request reconsideration of a final judgment imposing a penalty even after it is executed or the penalty lapses, and requires both judgments to be final for a contradiction to arise.
- Article 150This article of the Regulations requires an order to stay execution of a judgment issued under Article 206 of the Law to be recorded in the case record and notified immediately to the execution authority by official letter.
الباب الثامن: الأحكام الواجبة التنفيذ وإجراءات تنفيذها وضوابطهArticles 151–171
- Article 151If part of a criminal judgment becomes final but another part does not, a certified copy is sent to the execution authority to execute only the final part.
- Article 152The article requires the court to notify the detention administration in writing of the substance of its judgment in the cases provided for in Article 213 of the Law, so the detained accused is released at once.
- Article 153The article explains when a new prison sentence starts if the stay of an earlier sentence is cancelled, to whom the cancellation request is made, and that part of a discretionary prison sentence may be stayed.
- Article 154Orders to carry out criminal sentences are issued by the administrative governor, except for sentences whose execution requires an order from the King or his delegate.
- Article 155The administrative governor determines who carries out sentences of death, amputation, stoning, flogging, and retaliation; the executor must be of good character, knowledgeable, not prison staff, and not a relative or enemy.
- Article 156A committee is formed in each city and governorate representing the administrative governor, the court, the Commission and the police to witness corporal sentences, with a member of the Authority and a doctor attending some of them.
- Article 157The article requires a medical examination before corporal sentences are carried out, provides for referring cases of excess harm to the court, and postpones execution for pregnant, postpartum, and nursing women.
- Article 158The will of a person sentenced to death or stoning is established by the personal status court, which may assign one of its judges to go and establish it.
- Article 159The administrative governor assigns the security authority to keep the execution site secure, any change of the place set in the judgment goes to the court, and photography by anyone but the competent authorities is banned.
- Article 160The convicted person is brought to the place of execution without violence or harm, the committee verifies his or her identity, and a statement of the crime, the judgment, and the execution order is read aloud.
- Article 161In retaliation (qisas) judgments the executing authority notifies the right holder in writing of the date and place, and execution takes place only in his or her presence or that of a representative; the killing is carried out by the person designated for it unless the judgment provides otherwise.
- Article 162When death, amputation, stoning, or retaliation sentences are carried out on more than one person, they are not brought to the place of execution all at once, and no one is executed in view of the others.
- Article 163Death sentences are carried out with the instrument stated in the judgment or any instrument that achieves a humane manner, the person is not moved before death is medically established, and the competent authority prepares and buries the body.
- Article 164The article permits an anesthetic for amputation as a hadd penalty and for retaliation for lesser injuries with the right holder's written consent, requires treating bleeding, and bars reattaching a limb cut as a hadd penalty while allowing it in retaliation with consent.
- Article 165The article regulates carrying out flogging: notifying the person awarded it, not announcing the name, covering, the case of confession, the manner, instrument, and body areas, and stopping if it is unsuitable.
- Article 166If a prisoner's term ends before a discretionary flogging is completed, he is released and then flogged as the judgment provides; a request to speed up the flogging requires the issuing court's opinion.
- Article 167The article governs the penalty of exile (taghrib): its place if the judgment does not set one, no change without the court's permission, how its length is counted, the case of a woman without a mahram, and ensuring the exiled person stays.
- Article 168After a sentence is carried out, a record is made with the details of the judgment, execution order, the person, the place, and those present, and the head of the committee submits the original to the administrative governor.
- Article 169After a judgment is carried out, its instrument is sent to the court so the circuit that issued it can annotate the execution, and the court then returns it to the body it came from to be attached to the case file.
- Article 170The rules and instructions relevant to carrying out criminal judgments apply to everything for which the Law and the Regulations contain no specific provision.
- Article 171The provisions of the judgment-execution part of the Regulations do not prejudice the Authority's powers to supervise the carrying out of criminal judgments under the Law of the Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecution.
الباب التاسع: أحكام عامة وختاميةArticles 172–181
- Article 172The article explains that the orders referred to in Article 14 of the Criminal Procedure Law are orders issued by judicial bodies under their various names and by the Authority.
- Article 173The phrase "serious crimes", wherever it appears in the Criminal Procedure Law, means the "serious crimes requiring detention" referred to in Article 112 of the Law.
- Article 174The article allows a case received by mistake to be referred to the proper court or body, governs competent bodies' access to court papers, and requires the court to take the necessary steps when a general pardon is issued.
- Article 175If a non-Saudi is detained on suspicion of a serious crime, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is notified so it can consider informing his country's representation.
- Article 176In searching the premises of foreign embassies and international bodies and organizations with immunity, the relevant laws and rules, international customs, and international agreements must be observed.
- Article 177A person who cannot speak but can write gives statements in writing, questions are written for a deaf person who can read, an expert is used if they are illiterate, and an illiterate person signs with a fingerprint.
- Article 178Notification is valid when the person is notified through his address approved by the competent authority or its legal equivalent, unless there is a specific provision.
- Article 1791- لا يجوز بغير إذن من الملك القبض على الوزير أو من يشغل مرتبة وزير أو من سبق له أن عُيِّن وزيراً أو شغل مرتبة وزير، ولا توقيفه، ولا اتخاذ…
- Article 180The article requires that the criminal procedures specific to categories covered by special laws or international agreements be observed.
- Article 181The Regulations are published in the Official Gazette and take effect 30 days after the date of publication.