Article 41 of the Saudi Municipalities Law

This article concerns villages, the second part of the law's name ('Municipalities and Villages Law'). It provides that the following matters are organized by a regulation issued by the Council of Ministers:

• Determining village services.
• Developing these services.
• Advancing these services.
• Organizing the administration of villages.

The law does not set detailed rules here for village services or their administration, but refers all of that to the regulation. This article does not tell us what kind of services are provided for villages or which body administers them; the regulation sets out these matters.

Note that the regulation here is issued by the Council of Ministers itself, unlike Article 40 before it, which makes the regulations on spending the municipality's money, collecting its revenues and the affairs of its employees regulations that the Council of Ministers approves.

It is followed by Article 42, which provides that the Minister of Interior and the Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs exercise the powers given by this law to the Province Council until it is formed under the Provinces Law.

Anyone who lives in a village and wants to know the services provided for it or the body responsible should refer to the regulation issued by the Council of Ministers under this article.