Article 22 of the Saudi Elderly Rights and Care Law

This article regulates the issuance of the Implementing Regulations of the Elderly Rights and Care Law, and has three elements:

• Who issues them: the Minister, who under Article 1 is the Minister of Human Resources and Social Development.
• The deadline: within 90 days of the date the Law is published in the Official Gazette.
• When they take effect: they take effect from the date the Law takes effect, so the Regulations and the Law begin together.

Article 23 provides that the Law takes effect 90 days after its publication in the Official Gazette. So the two periods are equal and start from the same date, which is consistent with tying the Regulations' start to the Law's start.

The Regulations, under Article 1, are the Implementing Regulations of the Law. This article does not state the content of the Regulations, but regulates who issues them, their deadline and when they take effect. It is preceded by Article 21, which provides that the Law's provisions do not affect the other legal obligations of the relevant bodies, nor any better protection for the elderly in another law or an international agreement to which the Kingdom is a party. Anyone who needs the details of one of these rights should refer to the Law and the Regulations together, or consult a lawyer specializing in personal status cases and the rights of the elderly.