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5. Inoperative Accounts
No: 65681/67 | Date(g): 3/7/2019 | Date(h): 1/11/1440 | Status: Modified |
Effective from Apr 20 2025 - Jul 02 2019
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Accounts, relationships and transactions shall be considered non-moving after two calendar years from the date of the last financial transaction carried out by the customer, his/her authorized representative, or his/her heirs. Inoperative accounts are divided into three types as described in this Rule. The purpose of this Rule is to keep accounts active, save the customer assets (money) that have not been used for a financial transaction (withdrawal or deposit – depending on the nature of the relationship), recorded debit transactions, or documented correspondences during the period specified in Article (5.2). The Rule also supports communicating with customers, returning the rights to their owners upon request immediately after the completion of documents and necessary procedures, changing account status to abandoned if banks are unable to reach the account holder after using all methods of contact. Accounts of government entities shall be excluded from the provisions of this Rule in respect of the phase of abandoned accounts only as set forth in paragraph (5.2.4), and the bank accounts for enforcement courts that are established for the purpose of collecting enforcement amounts are excluded from all three stages of classification outlined in Article (5.2). Accounts of statutory reserve deposited by financial institutions supervised by SAMA, whose balances are not allowed to be disposed of without prior written permission from SAMA, shall also be excluded from the provisions of this Rule.