Article 13 of the Saudi Vehicle Inspection Regulation

This article identifies who oversees inspection bodies and records their violations:

• The persons: Employees named by decision of the Chairman, that is, the chairman of the board of directors of the Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization.
• The tasks:
  • Oversight and inspection of the inspection body.
  • Recording any violations it commits of the provisions of the Regulation or the Implementing Regulations.

No employee has the capacity to inspect and record violations merely by working at the Authority; he must be named by decision of the Chairman.

Note that the employees' task under the text is oversight, inspection and recording violations, and the article did not mention imposing penalties among their tasks. The article connects to Article 12, which allows anyone against whom a decision imposing any of the penalties has been issued by the violations committee to object to it before the Administrative Court, so the recording the employees carry out may end in a decision subject to judicial review.

The article does not set out the inspectors' detailed powers or the procedures for recording violations; one refers for them to the Implementing Regulations and the related decisions.