Article 17 of the Saudi Human Rights Commission Statute

This article governs the financial affairs of the Human Rights Commission.

1. The budget: the Commission has an independent budget, prepared and issued under the arrangements for issuing the State's general budget, and spending from it is under the State budget instructions. Independence of the budget therefore does not mean it is outside the general budget rules on preparation and spending.

2. Sources of funds:

1. The allocations made to it in the State budget.
2. The income it earns from carrying out activities within its competences.
3. Gifts, subsidies, grants and bequests it accepts under the rules the Commission's board sets.
4. Other resources the Commission's board decides to add.

3. The financial year: it begins with the start of the State's financial year and ends with its end. As an exception, the first financial year began from the date the Statute took effect.

Note that accepting gifts, subsidies and bequests is not unrestricted, but subject to the rules the Commission's board sets. The article does not state those rules.

This article is linked to Article 18, which requires the Commission to submit its final account to the King within three months at most of the end of the financial year, for his direction as he sees fit.