The jurisdiction of the Commercial Register Offices shall be determined in accordance with Annex (1) to the present Regulations by a decision of the Minister of Commerce to establish other offices and to amend the jurisdiction of existing offices.

The Ministry of Commerce shall prepare in each Commercial Register Office a registry for registering traders and companies in the jurisdiction of each office. Multiple registries may be established based on the multiple cities that fall within the Office's jurisdiction. The pages of each register shall be numbered with serial numbers, each register shall have its own code, and each establishment shall have a distinctive symbol according to its legal form. The Ministry of Commerce shall have the right to use computerised registration, taking into consideration the provisions mentioned in the previous paragraph.

Registration applications, as well as applications for amendment and applications for the cancellation of registration stipulated in the Law, shall be drawn up on the forms prepared for this purpose. Each application shall be accompanied by supporting documents, written in clear handwriting, and submitted by the persons assigned to submit them according to the Law. Those persons may delegate others on their behalf with an official special or general power of attorney, expressly stating the power of the agent to submit any of the aforementioned applications. The original power of attorney or a copy thereof shall be kept along with the original application at Commercial Register Office.

The officials of the branches and offices of foreign companies licensed to be opened in the Kingdom must attach to the application for the registration of branches or offices a copy of the licensing decision to open the branch or office and a copy of the company’s articles of association, certified by the competent authorities with a certified Arabic translation. The registration application must also include the data mentioned in Article 3 of the Law, and ample data on the branch and office, including in particular the following: The trade name of the branch or office, its address, the activity it carries out, the date of its opening, the name of the manager and the limits of his powers.

The data mentioned in Articles 2 and 3 of the Law must be indicated in the registration applications for individual businesses, companies and their branches. The applications must also indicate the director’s powers in managing or signing, especially the dispositions, contracts and powers vested in the director or persons who have the right to sign, both in terms of their type and value, as well as the dispositions and contracts they are prohibited from undertaking, if any.

All the applications referred to in the above articles shall be submitted to the competent officer of the Commercial Register Office who must verify that all the conditions stipulated in the Law are met with respect to each application and then mark the application with the date of its submission, the acceptance of the applications that meet the conditions and the rejection of the other applications, indicating the reasons for rejection. All this should be accompanied by the officer’s signature. In each case, the officer shall keep the original application in the competent Commercial Register Office.

The Commercial Register Offices shall record the data of the accepted applications in the Register prepared for this purpose, issue a certificate to that effect in one original and one copy, hand over the original to the person concerned, and keep the copy in the Commercial Register Office.

In the event of indicating data that would change the data registered in the Register, the new data shall be recorded based on the application submitted by the concerned person and a registration certificate shall be issued that includes the amended data.

The fees due on the concerned person shall be collected after accepting the registration or amendment application by issuing the receipts on the form prepared for this purpose in three copies with a single serial number where the concerned person shall be provided with two copies thereof to attach one of them to the application. The Register Offices shall enter the receipt number in the registration certificate, and the due period for the fee shall be considered the period of validity of the certificate.

The competent Commercial Register Office shall issue a certificate for the cancellation of the registration in one original and one copy based on the form prepared for this purpose, provided that the certificate shall indicate the date of and reason for the cancellation. The original certificate shall be handed to the person concerned and the copy shall be kept in the Commercial Register Office