Article 22 of the Saudi Electricity Law

This article specifies who issues the Implementing Regulations of the Electricity Law, and divides them by type of task:

1. What relates to the Ministry's tasks: issued by the Minister, meaning the Minister of Energy under Article 1.
2. What relates to the Authority's tasks: issued by the Council, meaning the board of directors of the Water and Electricity Regulatory Authority.

The deadline is the same in both cases: within 180 days of the date the law is published in the Official Gazette.

Start of effect in both cases: from the date the law takes effect.

In practice, someone looking for the implementation details of the Electricity Law may need to consult more than one document: what the Minister issued for the Ministry's tasks, and what the Council issued for the Authority's tasks. The distinction between them follows the division of tasks between the two bodies in the law.

Article 23 follows and provides that the law takes effect 180 days after the date of its publication in the Official Gazette. The deadline for issuing the regulations therefore equals the period before the law takes effect, and the regulations take effect from the date the law does.

The article does not state the publication date or the date the regulations were actually issued, so the Official Gazette or the two bodies concerned should be consulted.