Article 1 of the Saudi Judicial Costs Implementing Regulations

This Article does not set definitions specific to the Regulations; it states a rule of cross-reference: the terms and expressions used in the Implementing Regulations have the meanings set out in Article 1 of the Law of Judicial Costs.

In practice this means:

• The Regulations and the Law use terms in the same sense, so a word in the Regulations does not mean something different from what it means in the Law.
• Anyone who wants to know the meaning of a term used in the Regulations should consult Article 1 of the Law.

This Article does not reproduce the text of those definitions, so their content cannot be inferred from this text alone; they must be consulted in the Law itself.

The importance of this cross-reference appears in the other Articles of the Regulations, which use terms such as "claim of determined value", "claim of undetermined value", "the competent department" and "the obligated person"; these are understood as the Law provides. For example, Article 2 sets the cost percentages for claims of determined value, and Article 3 the amounts for claims of undetermined value.

Anyone who needs to estimate the judicial costs of a particular claim should consider consulting a lawyer specializing in litigation and procedure.