In reference to the approval of His Royal Highness on Council of Ministers Resolution No. 252 dated 24/07/1434 AH regarding the arrangements for activating the articles related to residence or work addresses contained in the Civil Status Law, the Commercial Register Law, and the Residency Law, which included the following:

1. The public place of residence shall be the address of a natural person, a legal person, an individual institution, a public entity, or others, unless he chooses an address for the private place of residence to receive notices, notifications, and the like. The address of the public or private place of residence - as the case may be - prepared by the Saudi Post Corporation shall be considered an approved address that entails all legal effects.

2. All those included in Paragraph (1) of this Resolution shall register their address data with the Civil Status Department or the Saudi Postal Corporation, and they shall also update that data if any change occurs to it, within a maximum period of sixty days from the change.

3. The penalties stipulated in the Civil Status Law, the Residency Law, or the Commercial Register Law, as the case may be, shall be applied to anyone who violates the provisions referred to in the two paragraphs above. This application shall take place five years after the date of its entry into force.

4. All entities subject to SAMA supervision and control shall take appropriate measures to oblige the beneficiaries of its services to provide address data, update the same, and link those services thereto.

  Pursuant to Circular No. 371000068810 dated 19/06/1437, the Central Bank confirms the necessity of linking the provision of various services to customers, including, but not limited to: Opening and updating bank accounts, issuing an insurance policy, and offering financing products, by submitting the approved address data prepared by the Saudi Post Corporation (national address), and verifying the readiness of automated systems to ensure the implementation of instructions before the end of 2016 AD, and announcing this to customers through all possible channels, including, but not limited to: The website, text messages, and e-mail, and urging customers to register their addresses (national address) with the Saudi Postal Corporation through the website (www.sp.gov.sa), noting that the validity of any address provided can be verified by contacting the Saudi Postal Corporation.

Credit information companies shall also obtain from all their members the approved address information prepared by the Saudi Post Corporation (national address) for all consumers, in accordance with Circular No. 342880/67 dated 0/07/1440.