Article 19 of the Saudi Donation Collection Law

This article identifies who records violations of the Law. It makes the chief officer of the licensing authority the one who identifies those of its staff who have law-enforcement capacity, so that they handle recording violations of the provisions of the Law.

The following is clear from the text:

• Source of the authority: the chief officer of the licensing authority.
• Who is given the capacity: staff of the licensing authority itself, and no one else.
• The purpose: recording violations of the provisions of the Law.

Under Article 1, the licensing authority is the National Center for Non-Profit Sector Development and any other entity legally competent to issue donation collection licenses. Each licensing authority's chief officer may therefore identify which of its employees record violations.

The article does not explain the procedures for recording or the detailed powers of those given this capacity. What is recorded as violations may lead to what Article 18 provides: confiscation, by judicial judgment, of donations collected in violation, and spending them on the charitable purposes the Implementing Regulations specify, subject to the donor's condition.

Article 20 follows, excluding from the Law the entities subject to the rules governing oversight of government bodies' receipt of gifts and donations, issued by Council of Ministers Resolution No. (365) dated 14/8/1436 AH.