Article 13 of the Saudi Voluntary Service Law

This article deals with recognizing volunteers, and contains two provisions:

• Annual honoring: the beneficiary body may honor volunteers annually on national or international occasions.
• Moral incentives: the head of the beneficiary body may give the volunteer whatever moral incentives he sees fit.

The wording used in both provisions is permissive ("the body may", "the head of the body may"), so honoring and incentives are a discretionary power of the body and its head, not a right the volunteer can claim. This differs from the rights listed in Article 10, such as training, treatment and the volunteering and experience certificate, which the Law framed as a right of the volunteer within the body's capacities.

Limiting the incentives to moral ones is consistent with the definition of the volunteer in Article 1 as someone who provides voluntary work without requiring any material or moral reward; incentives here are recognition the body gives by its choice, not a reward the volunteer requires.

The article is also linked to Article 7, which obliges the beneficiary body to follow up the performance of volunteers, evaluate them and motivate them, and honoring and moral incentives are among the means by which the body carries out this task. The register of volunteers and volunteer teams provided for in Article 9, with the hours and work it records, helps in knowing who deserves honoring.