Article 9 of the Saudi Voluntary Service Law

This article creates a documentation tool inside each beneficiary body called the register of volunteers and volunteer teams. Recorded in it are:

• The names of volunteers.
• The number of volunteering hours.
• The voluntary work they did for the body.

The importance of this register is practical for both the volunteer and the body; it is the reference that proves the volunteer's participation and its extent, and it is linked to rights the Law provides for. Article 10 gives the volunteer the right to obtain a volunteering and experience certificate in the name of the beneficiary body, stating the type of voluntary work, its duration, the volunteering hours and a description of the experience gained, data that are easy to prove when recorded in the register.

The name of the register also includes volunteer teams, which is consistent with Article 8, which requires a volunteer team to be registered and approved by the beneficiary body before it carries out its work.

The article does not specify the form of the register (paper or electronic) or the procedures for entering data in it; these details are for the beneficiary body and any regulatory mechanisms issued. This internal register in each body should also be distinguished from the databases of volunteers that the National Committee for Voluntary Service supervises under Article 6.