In force Last amended 10/7/1444 AH
Saudi Voluntary Service Law
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The Voluntary Service Law of 1441 AH, set out in 18 articles.
- Articles
- 18
- In force
- 18
- Amended
- 4
- Issued
- 27/5/1441 AH
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Each article shows the official Arabic text, which is the only legally binding version, followed by our plain-English explanation.
Browse Voluntary Service Law by topic
Definitions and Objectives of Voluntary Service3 articlesNational Committee for Voluntary Service5 articlesBeneficiary Bodies and Volunteer Teams5 articlesVolunteer's Rights2 articlesVolunteer's Duties1 articleCompensating a Volunteer for Injury and Death1 articleEnding Voluntary Work1 articleVolunteering in the Private Sector1 article
Articles of the Saudi Voluntary Service Law
- Article 1The article defines the basic terms in the Voluntary Service Law: voluntary work, the Law, the Committee, the volunteer, the beneficiary body and the volunteer team.
- Article 2The article states the objectives of the Voluntary Service Law, including spreading a culture of volunteering, regulating the relationship between its parties, strengthening national belonging and developing volunteers' abilities.Amended M/111
- Article 3The article creates the National Committee for Voluntary Service chaired by the Minister of Labor and Social Development, names its members, and places its secretariat at the National Center for Non-Profit Sector Development.Amended M/111
- Article 4The article sets membership of the National Committee for Voluntary Service at four years renewable once, and governs choosing the vice chairman and inviting non-members to meetings.
- Article 5The article governs meetings of the National Committee for Voluntary Service: at least twice a year, the quorum for validity, how decisions are issued, and holding emergency meetings.
- Article 6The article makes the National Committee for Voluntary Service responsible for coordinating between beneficiary bodies and relevant bodies, and lists its particular tasks such as supervising strategies, databases and the annual report.Amended M/111
- Article 7The article requires the beneficiary body to do everything that activates voluntary work, in particular receiving volunteering applications, recruiting volunteers, designing programs, training volunteers and following up their performance.
- Article 8The article allows volunteers to carry out voluntary work through a volunteer team, provided it is registered and approved by the beneficiary body.
- Article 9The article requires a register to be created in the beneficiary body called the register of volunteers and volunteer teams, recording the names of volunteers, their volunteering hours and the work they performed.
- Article 10The article gives the volunteer the right to obtain from the beneficiary body training, tools, food, transport, housing, treatment, an identity card and a volunteering and experience certificate, within its capacity.
- Article 11The article sets out the volunteer's duties: ethics and honesty, following the beneficiary body's rules, safeguarding property, safety, keeping secrets and not speaking to the media without permission.
- Article 12The article provides compensation to the volunteer for disability or impairment arising because of his voluntary work, or to his heirs on his death, under the labor law of the beneficiary body, with proportional compensation for partial disability.
- Article 13The article allows the beneficiary body to honor volunteers annually on national or international occasions, and its head to give the volunteer whatever moral incentives he sees fit.
- Article 14The article governs ending voluntary work: by the beneficiary body under its conditions, by the volunteer's employer if he volunteers during working hours after written coordination, and by the volunteer with sufficient advance notice.
- Article 15The article bars private-sector establishments from benefiting from volunteers' efforts where they gain a direct or indirect profit.
- Article 16The article requires the beneficiary body to consider volunteers' grievances, verify them and take what is needed in response.
- Article 17The article makes issuing the mechanisms needed to apply the Voluntary Service Law the responsibility of the National Committee, which circulates them to government bodies to apply.Amended M/111
- Article 18The article provides that the Voluntary Service Law takes effect ninety days after the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.