In force Last amended 11/2/1445 AH
Saudi Enlisted Personnel Service Law
نظام خدمة الأفراد
Regulates the service of enlisted personnel in the Saudi armed forces. It has 73 articles and concerns military personnel and the authorities that manage their service.
- Articles
- 73
- In force
- 73
- Amended
- 19
- Issued
- 24/3/1397 AH
Issued by: مرسوم ملكي رقم (م/9) وتاريخ 1397/3/24هـ · قرار مجلس الوزراء رقم (324) وتاريخ 1397/3/24هـ
Each article shows the official Arabic text, which is the only legally binding version, followed by our plain-English explanation.
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Scope of the Enlisted Personnel Service Law and Their Ranks3 articlesConditions for Appointing Enlisted Military Personnel3 articlesPromotion of Enlisted Military Personnel5 articlesEnlisted Personnel Salaries and Attachment of Them8 articlesTechnical and Other Allowances for Enlisted Personnel7 articlesEnlisted Personnel Allowances and Rewards6 articlesTransfer, Relocation Allowance and Travel Tickets6 articlesMedical Treatment for Military Personnel and Their Families3 articlesAttachment, Secondment and Loan of Personnel3 articlesSecondment of Personnel and Secondment Allowance4 articlesScholarships and Training of Personnel3 articlesLeave for Military Personnel10 articlesEnding Personnel Service and Reinstatement5 articlesDuties and Prohibitions for Military Personnel6 articles
Articles of the Saudi Enlisted Personnel Service Law
الفصل الأولArticles 2–3
- Article 2The article defines the key terms of the Enlisted Personnel Service Law, such as the Minister, enlisted person, private, noncommissioned officer, technical enlisted person, the enlisted person's family, length of service, and basic and actual salary.
- Article 3The article sets out the seven ranks of enlisted personnel from private to sergeant major, and provides for adding the word 'technical' directly after the rank for technical enlisted personnel.
الفصل الثاني: التعيينArticles 4–7
- Article 4The article sets the conditions for appointing an enlisted person: Saudi origin and upbringing, good conduct, medical fitness, age between 18 and 40, not being a government employee, and the qualifications of technical personnel.Amended
- Article 5The article requires the candidate to give two declarations: that he has not concealed prior military service, and that he meets the conditions in paragraphs (b) and (e) of Article 4; if the contrary is proven, his appointment is cancelled with no counted service or award.Amended
- Article 6يعتبر الفرد تحت الاختبار لمدة سنة اعتباراً من تاريخ تعيينه فاذا لم يثبت صلاحيته خلال هذه المدة تنتهي خدمته بقرار من الجهة التي لها حق…Amended
- Article 7The article obliges an enlisted person to remain in service for four years after his appointment; after that his service may be ended at his request unless the circumstances of military work require him to stay.
الفصل الثالث: الترقيةArticles 8–10
- Article 8The article regulates promotion of the enlisted person to the next rank by decision of the Minister, promotion of a sergeant major to second lieutenant by order of the Supreme Commander, and sets the conditions and minimum periods for each rank.
- Article 9The article allows the Minister to exempt an enlisted person from one or more of the promotion conditions in the Law, except the condition of time and the availability of a vacancy.
- Article 10The article allows, exceptionally, granting an enlisted person seniority of up to one year or promoting him to the next rank without the promotion conditions, except a vacancy, if he performs outstanding, extraordinary deeds.
الفصل الرابع: الرواتبArticles 11–14
- Article 11The article provides that enlisted personnel's pay is set by the salary scale attached to the Law, including the basic salary and periodic increments, and an enlisted person may not be assigned to more than one post but may carry out its duties.
- Article 12The article provides that a promoted enlisted person receives the salary of the first grade in the new rank, and if his salary equals or exceeds it, he receives the first grade that exceeds his salary.
- Article 13The article provides for paying half of an enlisted person's net salary while he is detained or imprisoned for investigation or trial, and returning what was withheld if he is not convicted or is punished with something other than dismissal.Amended
- Article 14The article provides for paying the full salary of a captive enlisted person, with increments and allowances, to his family until his captivity ends, after which he is treated according to the decisions issued about him.
- Article 14 bisThe article regulates attachment of an enlisted person's salary by order of the Prime Minister for government debts, or by court judgment for others, up to one third of net salary, with the debt of alimony taking priority without regard to the ratio.Amended
الفصل الخامس: العلاواتArticles 15–19
- Article 15The article provides that the enlisted person receives the periodic increment annually by moving him from his grade to the next grade directly in the same rank in the salary scale, with the move taking place on the first of Muharram each year.
- Article 16The article provides that enlisted personnel are entitled to technical allowances under the technical allowances table attached to the Law, and permits combining only two technical allowances for one who performs both jobs.Amended
- Article 17أ- يجوز الجمع بين علاوتين وعلاوة واحدة من العلاوات الواردة في جدول العلاوات الاخرى المرفق لهذا النظام والتي تحدد شروط منحها في اللائحة…Amended
- Article 18The article provides for paying an allowance to an enlisted person who works in remote areas, and refers its details to the Implementing Regulations.
- Article 19The article provides that the allowances in Articles 16 and 17 are paid during leave and secondment, and to those attached, sent on study missions or delegated if they perform their specialization, and lapse if the enlisted person does not perform the work for which they were designated.
الفصل السادس: البدلات والتعويضاتArticles 20–26
- Article 20The article sets out the cases in which cooked board is provided: to enlisted personnel in their units, to those detained or imprisoned in military units, and to recruits until their appointment procedures are completed.
- Article 21The article allows paying the board allowance in cash in exceptional cases by decision of the Minister, cuts it off for those imprisoned in public prisons, and sets it as additional in wars, emergencies and field leave.
- Article 22The article provides for paying a monthly transportation allowance to the enlisted person as set by the Implementing Regulations.Amended
- Article 23The article provides for a field per diem for members posted on the front lines and taking part in maneuvers and field work under set conditions, and paid in full to internal security forces members doing field work.Amended
- Article 24The article provides for an operating allowance, a travel preparation allowance and a movement allowance for members working abroad in military attaché offices or the equivalent, as the Implementing Regulations provide.
- Article 25The article provides for a bonus to a member by decision of the Minister under the Implementing Regulations in four cases: distinguished work for national security or public safety, Hajj, work on holidays, and academic or training excellence.
- Article 26أ- التعويض عند انتهاء الخدمة:يصرف للفرد عند انتهاء خدمته لسبب غير تأديبي ما يعادل راتبه الفعلي لثلاثة أشهر. ب- يعوض الفرد عن اجازاته التي…Amended
الفصل السابع: النقل والترحيلArticles 27–32
- Article 27The article prevents transferring a member from his unit or body except as work interests require and the post suits his rank and specialty, and allows him to request a transfer in writing for good reasons through his superior.
- Article 28The article provides for a relocation allowance to a member under the Implementing Regulations on first appointment, transfer between towns or abroad, scholarship, attachment of more than six months and secondment of three months or more.Amended M/28
- Article 29The article sets out the cases in which a member alone is carried on armed forces aircraft both ways, or provided two economy tickets or their value, such as secondment, treatment, investigation and field leave.
- Article 30The article sets out the cases in which a member and his family members are carried both ways, or provided economy tickets or their value, such as working abroad, long secondment, scholarship and transfer abroad.
- Article 31The article provides for returning a member working outside the Kingdom and his family to it by economy class air travel when his service ends, and transporting his body to the Kingdom at his family's request at his body's expense if he dies.
- Article 32The article gives a member on annual leave the right to a half-price round-trip ticket for himself, his wife and children on Saudi Airlines inside the Kingdom once a year.
الفصل الثامن: العلاجArticles 33–35
- Article 33The article provides for the treatment of a member and the family members he supports under Sharia in military or government hospitals inside the Kingdom at the Government's expense.
- Article 34The article provides for a monthly treatment allowance for members working abroad under the Regulations, and treatment of a seconded or scholarship member and his dependent family outside the Kingdom at the Government's expense on approved medical documents, excluding cosmetic operations.
- Article 35The article provides for treating a member outside the Kingdom at his body's expense if the medical committee decides treatment inside it is not possible, and allows the Minister in urgent cases to permit this without the committee's report.
الفصل التاسع: الالحاق والندب والاعارةArticles 36–38
- Article 36The article allows attaching a member from one force, area, arm or unit to another for a period not exceeding one year, renewable for another year, for work interests or emergency circumstances.
- Article 37The article allows a member to be seconded to the work of a post in another government body at its request, and makes that body bear his tickets and his family's, allowances and bonuses, but not his salary and its additions, unless the secondment decision says otherwise.
- Article 38The article allows lending a member, with the Prime Minister's approval, to a government, international body, or public or private institution for no more than two years, renewable up to four years, with his salary suspended.
الفصل العاشر: الانتدابArticles 39–42
- Article 39The article provides for a cash allowance to a member seconded on an official mission for each night spent outside his place of work, and refers to the Regulations for its provisions, the increase for abroad and the transfer allowance.
- Article 40The article starts the secondment allowance on leaving the workplace and ends it on return, limits it to the necessary days, and counts sick leave during secondment on conditions and up to the lesser of 15 days or half the period.
- Article 41The article provides for the secondment allowance prescribed for one night to a member whose mission ends and who returns to his place of work the same day.
- Article 42The article provides for a monthly compensation by decision of the Minister, in place of the secondment allowance, to a member whose work requires continuous travel, not exceeding one third of his monthly salary.
الفصل الحادي عشر: التدريب والابتعاثArticles 43–45
- Article 43The article allows sending members whose work interests require it on scholarship for study or training inside and outside the Kingdom under training policies, and refers the scholarship provisions to the Implementing Regulations.
- Article 44The article requires every member trained or sent on scholarship at his body's expense inside or outside the Kingdom to serve the specialization period the Implementing Regulations set.
- Article 45The article provides for setting educational levels for admission under the training policy put in place by the training departments and ratified by the Minister, and granting graduates technical increments by their classification under the attached table.
الفصل الثاني عشر: الاجازاتArticles 46–53
- Article 46The article lists the types of leave granted to a member: annual, field, casual, exceptional, sick, exam leave and study accompaniment leave.Amended M/28
- Article 47The article provides for annual leave of thirty days for a member, not granted the first time before 11 months from appointment, which may be combined up to 60 days a year, extended by 15 days in necessity, and postponed for the public interest.Amended M/28
- Article 48The article provides for paying the salaries of members on annual leave in advance, including all allowances and increments, with the subsistence allowance paid in cash.
- Article 49The article allows a member to be recalled from annual leave for work circumstances, compensating him with the value of round-trip economy air tickets for him and his family if he took them, and keeping the rest of his leave.
- Article 50The article allows granting a member, for emergency circumstances, casual leave of no more than ten days in one year, which lapses at the end of the Hijri year.
- Article 51The article allows granting a member working in the field and remote border posts field leave totaling 45 days a year, in one block or up to three blocks of not less than 15 days each.
- Article 52The article allows granting a member, at his request, exceptional leave inside or outside the Kingdom of no more than four months over his whole service, without any monthly entitlement, after exhausting his annual leave.
- Article 53الاجازة المرضية: أ- يستحق الفرد اجازه مرضيه في مدة ثلاث سنوات قدرها ثلاثة اشهر بالراتب الفعلي وثلاثة اشهر بنصف الراتب الفعلي وثلاثة اشهر…Amended
- Article 53 bisThe article allows granting a member leave for the period needed to sit an academic exam, on condition of proving the exam and its duration, and he may be recalled from it or it may be canceled for work circumstances.Amended
- Article 53 bis 2The article allows the Minister, by decision, to grant an enlisted member study-accompaniment leave for the period of accompanying his wife on scholarship abroad or one of his legal dependents, without pay and not counted toward retirement or promotion.Amended M/28
الفصل الثالث عشر: إنهاء الخدمةArticles 54–56
- Article 54The article allows an enlisted member, without prejudice to Articles 6 and 7, to request the end of his service by a written request to his direct superior stating his wish to leave the service, and the Minister may accept or refuse it.
- Article 55The article requires the enlisted member to continue performing his duties until he is notified of the decision accepting the end of his service, and bars acceptance of his request if he has been referred to a military trial until after the trial ends.
- Article 56تعتبر خدمات الفرد منتهية لاحد الأسباب التالية: أ- الاستغناء عن خدماته حسب مقتضيات مصلحة العمل. ب- الإحالة على التقاعد. ج- الطرد من الخدمة…Amended
الفصل الرابع عشر: الإعادة للخدمةArticles 57–58
- Article 57The article permits re-enlistment of a member when needed if he is at least two years under retirement age and meets the conditions of Article 4 except age, with a limit for those dismissed for absence.
- Article 58أ- إذا أعيد الفرد للخدمة –ماعدا الفني- ولم تتجاوز مدة تركه الخدمة سنه كاملة فيعاد براتبه وبرتبته السابقة وتعطى له بدلاتها وعلاواتها فإذا…Amended
الفصل الخامس عشر: الواجبات والمحظوراتArticles 59–60
- Article 59The article sets the enlisted member's duties: loyalty to the King and the interests of the nation, performing responsibilities accurately and honestly, carrying out orders other than in disobedience to God, good character, and preserving the honor of the service and discipline.
- Article 60The article lists what is forbidden to enlisted members, such as marrying a non-Saudi woman, political activity, trade, founding companies, disclosing information and accepting gifts, and makes violation grounds for trial and, for marrying a non-Saudi woman, expulsion.
الفصل السادس عشر: أحكام عامة وانتقاليةArticles 61–70
- Article 61تؤمن للفرد الملابس اللازمة كما تصرف له كافة التجهيزات التي تفرضها قواعد السلامة.Amended
- Article 62The article provides that technical and specialist non-commissioned officers and soldiers who receive technical or specialist allowances are classified in the categories of the technical allowances table that suit their specializations and levels, in accordance with the Implementing Regulations.
- Article 63The article provides that members who, when the Law was issued, received technical or specialist allowances not provided for in it or higher than its allowances have the difference made up, until it disappears through promotion or periodic allowance.
- Article 64The transitional article provides that a member is granted his periodic allowance due during 1397 AH on its due date, and that all members are then granted the periodic allowance under Article 15 on 1 Muharram 1398 AH.
- Article 65The transitional article counts the period beyond four years spent by those holding the rank of wakil on 1/11/1394 AH as seniority in the rank of sergeant first class, with no financial benefits.
- Article 66The article permits the Minister, by decision, in war and emergency, not to be bound by one or more paragraphs of Articles 56, 57 and 58 of the Law.
- Article 67The article charges the competent Minister, each in his own body, with carrying out the provisions of the Law, and gives him the right to delegate all or some of his powers to those of the officials he sees fit.
- Article 68The article requires that any proposal to add or amend a provision of the Law or its Implementing Regulations be prepared by a committee formed from the bodies concerned with the Law.
- Article 69The article provides that the Council of Ministers issues the Implementing Regulations provided for in the Enlisted Personnel Service Law.
- Article 70The article gives the Council of Ministers the power to change the Enlisted Personnel Service Law.