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29 September 2023

14 Rabee' Al-Awwal 1445

Law no. (23) for 2004 Regarding Promulgating the Criminal Procedure Code

Law Summary Record Type: LawNumber: 23Date: 30/06/2004 Corresponding to 13/05/1425 HijriNumber of Articles: 449Status: In force

Official Gazette :Issue: 12Offcial Journal Issue Publication Date: 29/08/2004 Corresponding to 14/07/1425 HijriPage from: 752

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Article 241
Starting Date: 01/10/2004

The judgment shall be fully executed with its reasoning eight days as from the date of its issuance, and shall be signed by the chief and the clerk of the issuing panel. If the chief is unable to sign it, then one of the judges who participated in issuing the judgment shall sign it. If the judgment is issued by the misdemeanor court and the judge who pronounced it has issued the reasons thereof in his own writing, the chief of the Court of First Instance may sign the original copy of the judgment himself, or delegate one of the judges to sign. If the judge did not write the reasons in his own handwriting, then the judgment shall become null and void.

If unsigned the judgment shall become null and void, save in the case of an acquittal, after the expiry of fifteen days as from the date of being pronounced.

The clerk shall give any person concerned, upon his request, a certificate indicating that the judgment was not signed in the time stated in the previous paragraph.

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