Article 44 of the Saudi Enlisted Personnel Service Law

This article establishes an obligation known as specialization service, the substance of which is that every member:

• Who is trained or sent on scholarship,
• at the expense of the body to which he belongs,
• whether this is inside or outside,

must serve the specialization period set by the Implementing Regulations.

The idea of this obligation is that the body that bore the cost of the training or scholarship benefits for a certain period from the specialization the member acquired. The basis of the obligation in the text is that the training or scholarship is at the body's expense.

Article 2 defines specialization service as the period a technical member must serve from the date of his appointment to the technical post.

The article does not state the length of the period, but refers its determination to the Implementing Regulations, and does not state the effect of breaching it. So anyone nominated for training or a scholarship should know the period required of him under the Regulations before deciding his future plans. Anyone with a dispute about the specialization service period required of him may consult a lawyer specialized in administrative matters and military service affairs.