Article 85 of the Saudi Traffic Law

المادة 85 من نظام المرور · الباب الثامن: أحكام عامة

The article provides for publishing the Traffic Law in the Official Gazette and for it to come into force 180 days after its publication.

Official text (Arabic)

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

ينشر هذا النظام في الجريدة الرسمية ، ويعمل به بعد مائة وثمانين يوما من تاريخ نشره.

لمزيد من المعلومات عن جدول المخالفات، الإشارات التحذيرية لنظام المرور يرجى معاينة أصل الوثيقة.

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 85 explained in plain English

This article explains when the Traffic Law becomes effective, and sets out two matters:

Publication: the law is published in the Official Gazette.
Coming into force: the law applies 180 days after the date of its publication, not directly from the day of publication.

This means there is a fixed period of 180 days between the law's publication and its coming into force. Note that this period equals the period that Article 84 gives the Minister of Interior to issue the Implementing Regulations, which is also 180 days from the date of publication.

The article does not state the date of publication itself, so to learn the actual date on which the law began to apply, one should refer to the date of its publication in the Official Gazette and then count the period from it.

The published text of the article includes a note stating that the table of violations and the warning signs of the Traffic Law can be viewed in the original document. This note is not a new ruling, but a pointer that the tables and signs relating to the law are in the original document, which anyone who wants to see them should consult.

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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