Global AI lawNo AI-specific instrument — measured across the whole national legislation register

AI Laws in Bahrain

Bahrain has no artificial-intelligence law, and that is a measured finding rather than a gap in this corpus. The national Legislation and Legal Opinion Commission register at lloc.gov.bh was read across all 24 of its categories: 139 instruments enumerated, 103 read in full text, and none of them names artificial intelligence, an algorithm, machine learning or automated decision-making. Separately, the Personal Data Protection Authority publishes 11 executive decisions under Law 30/2018 — covering data protection officers, data subject rights, technical measures, the complaints procedure, sensitive-data processing, cross-border transfer, criminal-case data, public registers, the notification procedure and auditor fees — and none of those names AI, automated decision-making or profiling either. ⚠️ Those 11 decisions appear in NO part of the national legislation register: a statute book and a regulator's implementing decisions are different surfaces, and reading only the first would have missed the whole regulation layer. What binds an AI deployer in Bahrain is therefore قانون رقم (30) لسنة 2018, the Personal Data Protection Law, together with those decisions. This reading is re-asked weekly against a control term — instrument K3018, the Personal Data Protection Law itself — so that if Bahrain enacts an AI act, the absence recorded here stops being served as though it were current.