Article 13 bis of the Saudi Real Estate Authority Statute

This Article identifies the law governing the Authority's relationship with its personnel, who are subject to two laws:

• The Labor Law.
• The Social Insurance Law.

In practice, the Authority's personnel are not governed by civil service rules, but by the rules applied in the private sector as regards contracts, wages, leave and end of service, and their insurance is governed by the Social Insurance Law.

The Article in its current wording was issued by amendment under Council of Ministers Resolution No. 426 dated 5/8/1443 AH, the same resolution that substituted the post of "Chief Executive Officer" for "Governor". The record of amendments provided does not show the earlier text of the Article, so what the provision was before the amendment cannot be inferred.

This Article is linked to Article 13, which provides that the Authority has an independent annual budget, so the wages of its personnel are paid from that budget. Note that the text is general in the phrase "the Authority's personnel" and makes no exception for any category of them. Anyone with a question about their employment contract with the Authority should refer to the provisions of the Labor Law itself, and for subscription and insurance coverage to the Social Insurance Law.