Article 31 of the Saudi Fertility Units Law

This article specifies who handles the prosecution side before the committee that considers violations of the Law: a member of the Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecution.

This means the cases brought before the committee do not rest on the complaint of the injured person alone; there is a party representing the public prosecution before it. The article does not set out this member's powers or procedures before the committee; it provides only for the representation.

This article follows Article 30, which regulates the committee's meeting with all its members present on the call of its chair, the issuing of its decisions by majority vote including the chair, whose vote prevails in a tie, and the referral of the case to the Board of Grievances if a decision cannot be issued in this way.

It is followed by Article 32, which sets out the serious violations and their penalties: a fine of not less than SAR 200,000 and not more than SAR 500,000, or imprisonment for up to five years, or revocation of the license to practice the profession, or more than one penalty, for violations including practicing infertility treatment without a license, injecting sperm or embryos into a woman other than the wife, and transferring a woman's zygotes or embryos into another woman's womb.

A person facing a charge before this committee would be well advised to consult a lawyer who specializes in criminal cases and health regulations.