Article 43 of the Saudi Food Law

This article gives the Saudi Food and Drug Authority flexibility in performing its tasks, by allowing it to enlist others.

Whom may it enlist?

• Any other government body.
• The private sector.

For which tasks? For any task assigned to it under the Law and its regulations; the text is general and excludes no particular task.

What does this mean in practice? Some work connected with applying the Food Law may be carried out by a party other than the Authority itself, whether another government body or a private body that the Authority enlists. But the article does not specify the form of enlistment, its conditions or the limits of what the enlisted party may do, so no particular powers should be inferred for it from this text alone.

Enlisting others does not transfer the task away from the Authority permanently: the task remains "assigned to it" under the Law, and the text allows it to enlist others in carrying it out.

This article comes after Article 42, which requires the Authority to present draft technical regulations and standard specifications to the public before adopting them, and is followed by Article 44, which requires the Board to issue the Regulations within 180 days of the Law's publication in the Official Gazette.