Article 9 of the Saudi Human Rights Commission Statute

This article sets out the role of the President of the Human Rights Commission. The President is responsible for managing the Commission and representing it, working to conduct its business according to its competences and tasks, and supervising the proper course of its work.

His powers for that purpose:

1. Supervising the preparation of the administrative and financial regulations before referring them to the Commission's board.
2. Approving financial procedures under the laws and regulations in force.
3. Supervising the course of work through the approved regulations.
4. Supervising the preparation of the annual report on the Commission's work and the annual report on the state of human rights in the Kingdom, before referring them to the Commission's board.
5. Supervising the preparation of the draft annual budget and the final account, before referring them to the Commission's board.
6. Representing the Commission before government bodies and other relevant institutions and bodies inside and outside the Kingdom.
7. Submitting the Kingdom's reports relating to human rights to the Prime Minister after the Commission's board approves them, under paragraph (5) of Article 5.

Note that many of the President's powers are supervisory and preparatory, ending with referral to the Commission's board, and that submitting the Kingdom's reports is conditional on the board's prior approval.

This article is linked to Article 8, which governs issuing the board's decisions by a majority of the votes of the members present who have the right to vote, and to Article 10, which makes the Vice President and the President's assistant help him when he is present according to the powers he sets, with the Vice President taking over his work in his absence.