This data category requires all national laws and statutes available to be available online, although it is not a requirement that information on legislative behaviour e.g. voting records is available. To satisfy this category, the following minimum criteria must be met:

• Content of the law / status
• If applicable, all relevant amendments to the law
• Date of last amendments
• Data should be updated at least on quarterly

Data Location

https://www.uqn.gov.sa/Pages/Default.aspx

Comments

All legislation in Saudi is published in the Official Gazette of Saudi - Um Al Qura. This publication can be downloaded for free from its official website ( https://www.uqn.gov.sa/Pages/Default.aspx ). The most recent laws and royal orders can be easily accessed through the upper menu of the website. There is no comprehensive legal search engine on the website as the Official Gazette also publishes other information besides legislation.

It is worth noting that the Bureau of Experts at the Council of Ministers has a search engine on its website for primary legislation ( https://www.boe.gov.sa/search.aspx?lang=ar ) which could be easier to use, but it is difficult to verify if this database includes all the legislation and whether or not it is up to date.

Reviewer comments

The submission is correct.

Data Availability

• N Openly licensed
• Y Is the data available for free
• N Is the data machine readable
• N Available in bulk
• Y Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis
• Y Is data in digital form
• Y Publicly available
• Y Does the data exist
• Y Is the data available online

Details

Date the data became available	Unknown
Format of data	HTML
Reviewer	Kamil Gregor
Submitters	Riyadh Al-Balushi
Last modified	Tue Sep 08 2015 13:47:27 GMT+0000 (UTC)