Article 19 of the Saudi Trade Names Law

المادة 19 من نظام الأسماء التجارية · الفصل الخامس: أحكام ختامية

The article lets the Minister of Commerce use public or private entities to perform the Registrar's duties and assign some of those duties to them.

Official text (Arabic)

This article has not been amended since the law was issued.

للوزير الاستعانة بالجهات العامة أو الخاصة للقيام بالمهمات المقررة للمسجل، وله إسناد بعضها إلى تلك الجهات.

This is the official Arabic wording, the only legally binding version. We do not translate the law itself; the explanation below is ours. Official source: Bureau of Experts at the Council of Ministers

Article 19 explained in plain English

This article concerns how the Registrar's duties are performed. The Registrar, as defined in Article 1, is the government body the Minister designates to manage the commercial register, and it deals with requests to reserve and register trade names.

The article gives the Minister two powers:

To use public or private entities to carry out the duties assigned to the Registrar.
To assign some of these duties to those entities.

The text speaks of assigning some duties, not all, and the article does not specify what these duties or entities are; that is left to what the Minister decides.

In practice, this may mean that in some procedures the merchant deals with an entity other than the Registrar directly if the task has been assigned to it. This article comes after Article 18, which gives anyone against whom a decision is issued under the law the right to challenge it before the competent court within 30 days from the date of notification, and before Article 20, which provides for the Arabic language experts platform.

Translated from our Arabic explanation with machine assistance. For guidance only; it does not replace advice from a lawyer on your situation.

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