Article 14 of the Saudi Donation Collection Law

This article provides an immediate administrative penalty on a violating licensed entity. Applying it requires:

• The licensed entity violates any provision of the Law.
• The violation occurs while it is collecting donations.

If that is established, the licensing authority must issue a decision suspending it from collecting donations for the purpose for which it collected them. The text uses the wording of obligation ("the licensing authority shall"), not permission.

Note that, according to the text, the suspension concerns the purpose for which it collected, and the article does not mention suspending the entity from all its activity or canceling its license. It also does not set the length of the suspension, how it is lifted, or the way to object to it.

Under Article 1, the licensing authority is the National Center for Non-Profit Sector Development and any other entity legally competent to issue licenses. Following this article comes Article 15, which permits the licensing authority, the Public Prosecution and the Presidency of State Security to request a precautionary attachment on the bank accounts of anyone collecting donations in violation of the Law, for a period not exceeding 60 days, extendable by a judicial order from the competent court.

An entity subject to a suspension decision would do well to consult a lawyer who specializes in administrative cases and non-profit sector regulations.