Whoever counterfeits with the intent to forge the royal seals and signatures, the seals of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, or the signature or seal of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, as well as whoever uses or facilitates the use of those seals and signatures knowing they are forged, shall be punished by imprisonment for a period of five to ten years and a financial penalty of five thousand to fifteen thousand riyals.

Whoever forges or counterfeits a seal, stamp, or mark belonging to one of the important departments in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia or to the Saudi representations in foreign countries, or specific to a foreign country or its public departments, or uses or facilitates the use of the mentioned signatures, marks, or seals, shall be punished with imprisonment for a period of three to five years and a fine ranging from three thousand to ten thousand riyals.

If the perpetrator of the acts mentioned in Articles One and Two of this Law, or those common to both, is a public employee or someone who receives a salary from the general state treasury, he shall be sentenced to the maximum penalty.

If the original perpetrator or partner destroys the forged items mentioned in the previous two articles before their use or reports them before the legal tracing procedures are conducted, he shall be exempted from punishment and fine.

Whoever counterfeits or forges documents related to banks or company bonds, whether the banks or companies are Saudi or foreign, or counterfeits or forges Saudi postal and official stamps, treasury payment orders, receipts of financial houses and financial departments, or manufactures or acquires tools used for forging the aforementioned bonds and stamps with the intent to use them for himself or others, shall be punished by imprisonment for a period of three to ten years, and a fine ranging from three thousand to ten thousand riyals.
The original perpetrator and the accomplice shall be fined, in addition to the aforementioned penalties, all amounts that caused a loss to the treasury, companies, banks, or individuals.
The penalty shall be waived for anyone who reports the crimes stipulated in this article before their full completion. As for those who inform about the perpetrators or participants after the initiation of legal proceedings, their penalty shall be reduced to one-third of the minimum penalty, and it is permissible to impose only the minimum fine.
To benefit from this reduction, it is required that the person returns all funds that entered into their possession as a result of the forgery.

Any employee who, during the course of his duty, commits forgery by creating a check or any manuscript without an original, or alters the original intentionally or by signing it with a forged signature, seal, or fingerprint, or destroys an official check or documents with evidentiary power, whether the destruction is total or partial, or forges an academic certificate or a government or personal service certificate, or abuses a blank signature entrusted to him, or by proving false facts and statements as true facts and acknowledged statements, or by recording data and statements other than those issued by their owners, or by altering or falsifying official papers, records, and documents by erasure, deletion, addition of words, omission intentionally, or by changing the names recorded in official papers and records and replacing them with incorrect or untrue names, or by changing the numbers in official papers and records by addition, deletion, or falsification, shall be punished by imprisonment for a period of one to five years.

Ordinary persons who commit the crimes stipulated in the previous article or who use forged documents and papers mentioned in the previous article, knowing their falsity, shall be punished with the penalties stipulated in the aforementioned article and a financial fine ranging from one thousand to ten thousand riyals.

Bearer securities or securities in favor of another person, or financial documents and shares that are permitted to be issued in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia or that have been issued in foreign countries and whose circulation is not prohibited in the Kingdom, and generally all financial documents, whether bearer or transferable by endorsement, are considered as official papers and documents in all the transactions stipulated in Article Five of this Law.

Any employee or person assigned to a public service or a medical or health profession who issues a document, certificate, or statement to another person contrary to the truth, resulting in obtaining an unlawful benefit or causing harm to any person, shall be punished by imprisonment for a period ranging from fifteen days to one year.

Whoever impersonates the name or signature of any of the persons mentioned in the previous article to forge the certified document, or alters or forges an official document, a civil status record, a passport, a residence permit, or an official visa for entry, transit, residence, or exit from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, shall be punished by imprisonment for a period of six months to two years and a fine ranging from one hundred to one thousand riyals.

Whoever imitates or forges the signature or seal of another person, or alters a deed or any private document by engraving, erasing, or changing, shall be punished by imprisonment for a period of one to three years.