Law of Saudi Administration: A administrative reform of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

What is it about?

The recent Saudi administrative reform by Dr. Rashed Abanamay This well written academic paper is about the Saudi Constitutional law regarding the administrative reform of Saudi Arabia. The paper analyses the administrative reform in the new constitutional law thrugh its historical development. The paper assess the possible active role of the regional governments within the Saudi legal system, which will, the author argues, will eventually sustain a particular form of power through the yet to be established local councils. The author argues that the test of any administrative reform, however, is how it functions in practice. The paper analyzed in more detailed the local law of the State Administration. The Article verifies the fact that Saudi Arabia has up until recently is loosely divided into several administrative regional reform, though without defined geographical boundaries. It further explains that such division is based on the extemporaneous system of government that has evolved since the unification of the Kingdom in 1932. Within such division, the distribution of power between the central and local government has been ambiguous and indefinite. While the local government of Saudi Arabia is administratively under the supervision of the Ministry of Interior, the personality of the King as the Prime Minister as well as that of the Amir-meaning the local governor-plays a significant role in determining the power of the locality with relation to the centre. Furthermore, the line separating a sizable locality from a smaller one has been indeterminate. More important, the paper analyses the substance of the only administrative law of the Kingdom enactment of the 1992 through a package of constitutional and administrative reform. The package contained among others, a statute on the establishment of administrative devolution with regional assemblies within one year of its enactment. The paper goes on to argue that in the light of the reform, there are prospective substantial changes in the way the country is run at the regional level and, more than in at any other time in the past, a prospect for community action is underway. The new system of regional government, the paper argues, is being established, and regional councils are embraced. Within these councils, there will have to be taken political and economic decisions which will affect, in a wide range of way, the lives of Saudis and the character of Saudi society.

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