Article 2 of the Saudi Public Prosecution Members Regulation

Article 2 deals with the qualification stage after appointment, and contains the following provisions:

• Compulsory training: members of the Authority undergo an intensive training program.
• Duration: not less than six months; this is a minimum.
• Effect on experience: the period of the program is considered equivalent to working in comparable work for one year. Six months of training is counted as if it were a year of comparable work.
• Rules of implementation: they are determined by the Authority's Council; the Article does not state the content of the program, its location or how it is assessed.

This Article comes after Article 1, which sets the conditions for appointment, including Saudi nationality, a Sharia or law qualification, a minimum age of 22 and passing the test held for appointment. Training is therefore a stage after those conditions are met.

It is followed by Article 3, which requires anyone who holds the rank of investigation lieutenant, in addition to the conditions of Article 1, to have a university degree with an overall grade of not less than good.

The importance of equating training with one year of comparable work appears in calculating periods of experience. Anyone with a dispute over counting the training period in his service may consider consulting a lawyer specializing in administrative cases (the Board of Grievances).