The texts of Articles 3, 5 (1) and 39 of Law No. 14 of 1990, referred to above, shall be replaced with the following texts:
“Article 3
The competent department shall have exclusive rights to conduct the following activities:
1.      Accepting, collecting, distributing and transporting various postal correspondence to and on behalf all recipients.
2.      Issuing, printing, selling and exchanging postage stamps, remittances and reply coupons (IRC) of various categories, types, shapes and colours.
3.      Opening and closing post offices across the country.
4.      Installing and removing letter deposit boxes.
Natural and juristic persons may be delegated in some or all of the activities stated in paragraph 1 of this Article by a decision of the Council of Ministers upon the proposal of the Minister. Such decision shall specify the terms and conditions and the required fees.
Article 5 (1)
1.     The exclusive rights referred to in Article 3 of this Law shall not be exercised without the authorisation of the Council of Ministers.
Article 39
1.     Without prejudice to any greater penalty provided for by another law, any natural person convicted of one of the offences stated in Article 5 of this law shall be punished by a fine of not more than two thousand (2000) Riyals.
2.     Any juristic person convicted of one of these offences shall be punished by a fine of not more than twenty five thousand (25,000) Riyals.
3.     In all cases, the fine shall be doubled in case of recurrence.”