Kuwaiti Penal Code
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- Article 1 اولي:The provisions of Articles 92 to 108 of Penal Code No. 16 of 1960, concerning crimes against the external and internal security of the State, are repealed and replaced…
- Article 2 ثانيهOf the provisions on bribery and abuse of office provided for in Articles 114 to 125 of Penal Code No. 16 of 1960, everything that conflicts with the provisions of the…
- Article 3Any person entrusted with negotiations with a foreign government concerning a matter of State who intentionally conducts them against its interests shall be punished by…
- Article 3 ثالثهThe Prime Minister and the ministers—each within his competence—shall implement this Law, which shall come into force one month after the date of its publication in the…
- Article 5Anyone who requests for himself or another, accepts or receives, even through an intermediary, from a foreign state or anyone working in its interest, money, any other…
- Article 16By way of exception to the provisions of the preceding Article, if the law prescribing the penalty is a temporary law for a specified period or a law whose enactment was…
- Article 19If the breach in performing all or some of the obligations referred to in the preceding Article occurs due to negligence or default, the punishment shall be imprisonment…
- Article 20Anyone who commits—in peacetime—any fraud in performing all or some of the obligations imposed upon him by a supply contract or works contract concluded with the…
- Article 30Associations, groups, or bodies whose purpose is to work to disseminate principles aimed at destroying the fundamental systems by unlawful means or forcibly revolting…
- Article 32There is no crime if the act is committed in defence of the person or property of its perpetrator, or in defence of the person or property of another.
- Article 34 مكررAny foreigner who enters the country or attempts to enter it with the intention of committing any of the offences relating to the internal or external security of the…
- Article 44Any public official, employee or worker who embezzles funds, papers, effects or other things delivered to him by reason of his position shall be punished by fixed-term…
Articles 51 – 10036
- Article 53An accomplice to an offence before its commission shall be punished by the penalty prescribed for it, even if it was committed in a manner other than that originally…
- Article 55Every public official or employee and every person entrusted with a public service who, relying on his office, enters an individual's dwelling without his consent in…
- Article 58 مكررAny competent public official who refuses to execute an enforceable judicial judgment after ninety days have elapsed from his being warned by a process server through…
- Article 59If it is established that the woman sentenced to death is pregnant, and she delivers her foetus alive, substitution shall be made to life imprisonment for the death…
- Article 60The death penalty may not be carried out except after ratification by the Emir, who may, on his own initiative, pardon this penalty or substitute another penalty for it.
- Article 61Life imprisonment lasts for the life of the convicted person and shall always be accompanied by labor.
- Article 62Temporary imprisonment shall be for a term of no less than twenty-four hours and no more than fifteen years.
- Article 63If the term of imprisonment specified in the judgment is six months or more, it shall be imprisonment with labour. If it does not exceed one week, it shall be simple…
- Article 64The penalty of a fine is the obligation imposed on the convicted person to pay the State the amount assessed by the court pursuant to the provision of law, which may not…
- Article 65The court may require a person sentenced to a penalty other than death to pay all or part of the trial costs. The judgment shall be enforced in accordance with the same…
- Article 66The ancillary and supplementary penalties prescribed in this Law are: 1 - Deprivation of the rights and privileges stipulated in Article 68. 2 - Dismissal from public…
- Article 67A penalty shall be considered accessory if the law prescribes it as an inevitable consequence of a sentence imposing the principal penalty, and shall be considered…
- Article 68Every sentence imposing a felony penalty necessarily entails depriving the convicted person of the following: 1 - Holding public office or working as a contractor or…
- Article 69If a person sentenced to a felony penalty enjoys, at the time the judgment becomes, any of the rights provided for in the preceding article, he must immediately be…
- Article 70If a judge sentences a public official to a misdemeanor penalty for bribery, torturing an accused person to induce him to confess, using the authority of office merely…
- Article 71Dismissal from public office is deprivation of the office itself, the salaries prescribed for it and all benefits associated with it. If the convicted person is not a…
- Article 72Every judgment imposing a felony penalty upon a person practising a liberal profession regulated by law and requiring a licence to practise it, for an offence committed…
- Article 73The judge must. If he imposes a penalty for practising a trade in a public establishment prepared for that purpose Law Index 119 Home Page Kuwaiti Penal Code Law No. 16…
- Article 74Anyone sentenced to imprisonment for a term exceeding seven years for a felony prejudicial to State security, piracy, killing, arson, robbery, counterfeiting coinage, or…
- Article 75Every sentence of imprisonment imposed on a repeat offender for theft, fraud, breach of trust or extortion of another's property shall permit the judge to order that he…
- Article 76Every person subject to police supervision must comply with the following rules as soon as this penalty becomes enforceable: First: The person must notify the police…
- Article 77Every violation of the provisions stipulated in the preceding Article, without an acceptable excuse, shall require that the person subject to police supervision be…
- Article 78When imposing a penalty for a felony or an intentional misdemeanor, the judge may order the confiscation of seized things that were used or were capable of being used in…
- Article 79Every sentence of imprisonment imposed on a foreigner shall permit the judge to order his deportation from Kuwait after completion of his sentence, without prejudice to…
- Article 80The cases in which a supplementary penalty may be imposed on a convicted person requiring an undertaking to maintain the peace and observe good conduct, with or without…
- Article 81If a person is accused of an offence requiring a sentence of imprisonment, the court may, if it finds in his character, past, age, the circumstances in which he…
- Article 82Where the court sentences the accused to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine, it may order a stay of execution of the judgment if it finds in…
- Article 83The court may, if it considers the accused deserving of leniency in view of the circumstances in which the crime was committed, or in view of his past, character or age,…
- Article 84If a person commits several offences for a single purpose such that they are indivisibly connected with one another, no penalty other than that prescribed for the most…
- Article 85Anyone previously sentenced to a felony penalty who is proved subsequently to have committed a felony or misdemeanour shall be considered a repeat offender. The court…
- Article 86If the accused has previously been sentenced to a misdemeanour penalty for committing theft, fraud, breach of trust, forgery, or an attempt to commit any of these…
- Article 87Conditional release may be granted to any person sentenced to imprisonment who has served three-quarters of the term imposed on him, provided that the period served is…
- Article 88If the released person's conduct deteriorates during the period for which he was released, the release shall be revoked, and the convicted person shall be returned to…
- Article 89After revocation of release, the convicted person may be released for another period in accordance with the provisions stipulated in Article 87. In this case, he must…
- Article 90If release is not revoked before the expiry of the first period during which the convicted person was released, or before the expiry of the second period, the release…
- Article 91The Public Prosecutor shall have competence to issue the release order upon a request from the Minister of Interior or his delegate, following a recommendation by a…
Articles 101 – 15032
- Article 109Anyone who destroys, damages or desecrates a place designated for the performance of religious rites, or commits within it an act violating the respect due to that…
- Article 110Anyone who violates the sanctity of a place prepared for burying the dead, preserving their remains or conducting funeral rites, causes disturbance to persons assembled…
- Article 111Anyone who disseminates, by one of the public means specified in Article 101, opinions involving ridicule, contempt or belittlement of a religion or religious…
- Article 112There is no offence if research into a religion or religious doctrine is disseminated in a lecture, article or scholarly book, in a calm, balanced manner free of…
- Article 113Anyone who publishes a book sacred in the belief of any religion and deliberately distorts it in a manner that changes its meaning, intending thereby to offend that…
- Article 126يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تجاوز سنتين وبغرامة لا تجاوز مائة وخمسين دينار أو بإحدى هاتين العقوبتين كل من أدعى أنه موظف عام، وقام بناء على هذه الصفة الكاذبة، بعمل يدخل في اختصاص…
- Article 127Anyone who adopts for himself a uniform or insignia distinctive of a class of officials, intending thereby to obtain benefits to which he is not entitled or to harm an…
- Article 128Any person who is arrested in accordance with the law and escapes shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year and a fine not exceeding…
- Article 129Any person entrusted, by virtue of his official duties, with guarding an arrested or imprisoned person who intentionally enables him to escape, or deliberately overlooks…
- Article 130Law Index 126 Home Page Kuwaiti Penal Code Law No. 16 of 1960 Promulgating the Penal Code and its Amendments Anyone entrusted, by virtue of his official duties, with…
- Article 131Anyone who enables an arrested or imprisoned person to escape, in cases other than the foregoing, shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years…
- Article 132Anyone who, personally or through another, conceals a person against whom an arrest warrant has been issued or who has escaped after being arrested or imprisoned, and…
- Article 133Anyone who knows of the commission of a felony or misdemeanour, if he has grounds to believe that it occurred, and assists the offender to flee from justice, either by…
- Article 134Anyone who insults a public official by words or gestures while he is performing his duties or because of their performance shall be punished by imprisonment for a term…
- Article 135Anyone who assaults a public official or resists him by force or violence while he is performing his duties or by reason of their performance shall be punished by…
- Article 135 مكرر 1Without prejudice to any more severe penalty prescribed by law, anyone who violates the provisions of the police regulations provided for in Article 73 of the…
- Article 135 مكرراThe victim of the offences provided for in Articles )134, 135( of this Law may not withdraw his complaint, reconcile with the accused or pardon him pursuant to the…
- Article 136Any person required to give testimony before a judicial authority who takes the oath and then makes false statements knowing them to be untrue shall be punished by…
- Article 137إذا ترتب على شهادة الزور الحكم على متهم بالحبس عوقب من شهد عليه زورا بالحبس مدة لا تجاوز سبع سنوات وبغرامة لا تجاوز خمسمائة وخمسة وسبعين دينارا أو بإحدى هاتين العقوبتين.…
- Article 138Whoever compels a witness not to give testimony, or compels him to give false testimony, shall be sentenced, as the case may be, to the penalties prescribed in the…
- Article 139Any person required to give testimony before a non-judicial body who takes an oath to adhere to the truth and then makes false statements knowing them to be untrue shall…
- Article 141Anyone who destroys a document prepared for submission before a judicial authority or whose submission as evidence in any judicial proceedings would be useful, or…
- Article 142Any person summoned, in accordance with the procedures specified by law, to appear before an official with judicial jurisdiction, who refuses to do so without an…
- Article 143Whoever knows of a plan to commit a crime of murder, arson or theft at a time when its commission can be prevented, and refrains from reporting it to the public…
- Article 144Anyone who intentionally refrains from rendering assistance to a person whose person or property is threatened by grave danger shall be punished by imprisonment for a…
- Article 145Anyone who submits to a public official competent to take measures arising from the commission of crimes a written or oral report attributing an act warranting…
- Article 145 مكرر 1Anyone who disturbs a public authority, administrative entity or person entrusted with a public service by reporting, by any means whatsoever, the occurrence of…
- Article 146Anyone who, in bad faith, attempts, by order, request, threat, entreaty or recommendation, to induce an official having judicial competence to take measures contrary to…
- Article 147Any person who, by a means of publicity specified in Article 101, violates the respect due to a judge in a manner that casts doubt on his integrity, his attention to his…
- Article 149Whoever intentionally kills a person shall be punished by death or life imprisonment, and a fine not exceeding one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dinars may be…
- Article 149 مكرر 1Anyone who intentionally kills a person with substances causing death sooner or later shall be punished by death, regardless of how those substances are used.
- Article 150Intentional killing shall be punishable by death if accompanied by premeditation or lying in wait. (2) Amended pursuant to Law No. 85 of 1983 (1) Added by Law No. 62 of…
Articles 151 – 20045
- Article 151Premeditation is the determination to commit the act sufficiently in advance of its execution to allow the perpetrator calm deliberation. Lying in wait is the…
- Article 154Whoever kills a person by mistake or unintentionally causes that person's death, where this arises from recklessness, default, negligence, inattention, failure to…
- Article 154 مكررThe killing referred to in the preceding Article shall be punishable by imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years and a fine not exceeding two thousand dinars and…
- Article 155A newborn shall be considered a human being capable of being killed once it emerges alive from its mother's womb, whether or not it has breathed, whether or not its…
- Article 156A person shall not be considered to have killed another person if the victim does not die within one year of the occurrence of the cause of death. This period shall be…
- Article 157A person shall be deemed to have caused the killing of another person, even if his act is not the direct cause (2) Repealed pursuant to Decree-Law No. 9 of 2025 (3)…
- Article 158Anyone who incites or assists a person to commit suicide, or agrees with a person upon suicide, and that person commits suicide, shall be punished by imprisonment for a…
- Article 160Any person who strikes or wounds a person, causes harm to his body or violates his bodily integrity, where this is done in a perceptible manner, shall be punished by…
- Article 161كل من أحدث بغيره أذى بليغا برميه بأي نوع من أنواع القذائف، أو بضربه بسكين أو أية آلة خطرة أخرى، أو بقذفه بسائل كاو أو بوضعه هذا السائل أو أية مادة متفجرة في أي مكان بقصد…
- Article 162كل من أحدث بغيره أذى أفضى الى اصابته بعاهة مستديمة يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تجاوز عشر سنوات، ويجوز أن تضاف إليه غرامة لا تجاوز سبعمائة وخمسين دينار. ويعاقب بالحبس مدة لا…
- Article 163Anyone who commits a minor act of assault which does not reach, in its gravity, the level of the acts stipulated (1) Repealed pursuant to Decree-Law No. 70 of 2025 Index…
- Article 164Anyone who unintentionally causes injury to another or inflicts tangible harm upon him, where this arises from recklessness, default, negligence, inattention or failure…
- Article 164 مكررThe injury mentioned in the preceding Article shall be punishable by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years and a fine not exceeding one thousand dinars and not…
- Article 165Anyone who uses unwarranted cruelty toward a domestic or captive animal, whether by killing it, beating it, wounding it, making it perform work beyond its capacity, or…
- Article 166Every person whom the law obliges to care for another person unable to obtain the necessities of life for himself because of his age, illness, mental disorder or…
- Article 167Any head of a family caring for a minor who has not completed fourteen years of age n and who refrains from fulfilling his obligation to provide the minor with the…
- Article 168Any person who undertakes, other than in emergencies, to perform a surgical operation on another person, to treat that person, or to carry out a lawful act involving a…
- Article 169The penalties mentioned in Articles 154 and 164 shall be imposed on any person who has custody of an animal, mechanical machinery or any other thing involving a danger…
- Article 170Anyone who gives a misleading signal, makes a call, or issues instructions or warnings capable of misleading a ship, aircraft, or any other means of maritime or air…
- Article 171Anyone who intentionally commits an act creating a danger threatening persons or things travelling along a public road, whether by damaging parts of the road, impairing…
- Article 172Any person who negligently commits an act that gives rise to danger to persons or things on a public road, a public navigation route, an airport or an aircraft landing…
- Article 174Anyone who administers—or causes to be administered—to a woman, whether pregnant or not, with or without her consent, drugs or other harmful substances, or uses force or…
- Article 175No penalty shall be imposed on anyone who induces an abortion in a pregnant woman if he possesses the necessary expertise and does so believing in good faith that this…
- Article 176Any pregnant woman who takes drugs or other harmful substances, uses force or any other means, intending thereby to cause herself to miscarry, and miscarries, or allows…
- Article 178Whoever abducts a person without his consent, by causing him to move from the place where he usually resides to another place in which he confines him, shall be punished…
- Article 179Anyone who abducts a person who is insane, mentally deficient or under eighteen full years of age, without force, threat or deception, shall be punished by imprisonment…
- Article 180Whoever abducts a person by force, threat or deception, intending to kill that person, inflict harm upon that person, have sexual intercourse with that person,…
- Article 183Anyone who abducts a newborn child, conceals it, substitutes another for it or falsely attributes it to someone other than its father or mother shall be punished by…
- Article 183 مكررApplication of the provision of Article 85 of this Law shall be mandatory in the offences provided for in the aforementioned Articles 178, 179, 181, 183.
- Article 184كل من قبض على شخص أو حبسه أو حجزه في غير الاحوال التي يقرها القانون، أو بغير مراعاة الاجراءات التي يقررها، يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تجاوز ثلاث سنوات وبغرامة لا تجاوز مائتين…
- Article 186Whoever has sexual intercourse with a female without her consent, whether by coercion, threats or deception, shall be punished by death or life imprisonment. If the…
- Article 187Anyone who has sexual intercourse with a female without coercion, threat or deception, knowing that she is insane, mentally deficient, under fifteen, deprived of…
- Article 188Anyone who has sexual intercourse with a female without coercion, threat or deception, when she has attained fifteen but has not attained twenty-one years of age, shall…
- Article 189Whoever has sexual intercourse with a female within a degree of relationship prohibited to him, knowing that fact, without coercion, threat or deception, where she has…
- Article 190Any female who has attained twenty-one years of age and consents to sexual intercourse with a male relative whom she is permanently prohibited from marrying, knowing her…
- Article 191Whoever indecently assaults a person by coercion, threats or deception shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding fifteen years. If the offender is an…
- Article 192Anyone who indecently assaults a boy or girl who has not attained twenty-one years of age, without coercion, threat or deception, shall be punished by imprisonment for a…
- Article 193If a man has sexual intercourse with another man who has attained twenty-one years of age, with the latter's consent, each of them shall be punished by imprisonment for…
- Article 194Anyone who has sexual intercourse with a woman who has attained twenty-one years of age, with her consent, where she is not within a degree of relationship prohibited to…
- Article 195كل شخص متزوج - رجلا كان أو امرأة - اتصل جنسيا بغير زوجه، وهو راض بذلك ، وضبط متلبسا بالجريمة يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تجاوز خمس سنوات وبغرامة لا تجاوز ثلاثمائة وخمسة وعشرين…
- Article 196The male partner of an adulterous wife and the female partner of an adulterous husband shall, if each knows or is able to know that the person with whom he or she…
- Article 197The injured spouse in the offence of adultery may prevent the institution of criminal proceedings against the adulterous spouse, whether male or female, and the partner…
- Article 198Whoever makes an indecent gesture or commits an indecent act in a public place, or in such a manner that a person in a public place sees or hears it, or imitates the…
- Article 199Whoever commits, in private, an indecent act with a woman without her consent, which does not reach the gravity of indecent assault, shall be punished by imprisonment…
- Article 200Anyone who incites a male or female to commit acts of debauchery and prostitution, or assists him in doing so by any means whatsoever, shall be punished by imprisonment…
Articles 201 – 25055
- Article 201Anyone who induces a male or female to commit debauchery and prostitution by coercion, threat or deception shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding…
- Article 202Anyone, male or female, who depends for his livelihood wholly or partly on what a person earns from practising debauchery and prostitution, through his influence over…
- Article 203Every person who establishes or manages premises for debauchery and prostitution, or assists by any means whatsoever in their establishment or management, shall be…
- Article 204Anyone who publicly incites the practice of debauchery and prostitution in a public place shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a…
- Article 206Any person who brings in, imports, or manufactures wine or an intoxicating beverage with the intent to trade therein shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not…
- Article 206 مكرر بAnyone who consumes wine or an intoxicating beverage in a public place, in a place where he can be seen by a person in a public place, or in a private club shall be…
- Article 206 مكرر جExcept in the case of recidivism provided for in the second paragraph of Articles 206, the court may sentence a repeat offender in the offences provided for in Articles…
- Article 206 مكرراWhoever sells, purchases, takes, accepts the transfer of, or possesses in any manner wine or an intoxicating beverage with the intent of trading in or promoting it shall…
- Article 207Any person who trades in narcotic substances, supplies them for consumption, facilitates their consumption for consideration or without consideration, or possesses them…
- Article 208Anyone who purchases or possesses narcotic substances for consumption or personal use shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years and a fine not…
- Article 209Anyone who attributes to a person, in a public place or within the hearing or sight of a person other than the victim, a fact that would entail punishment of the person…
- Article 210Anyone who, in a public place or within the hearing or sight of a person other than the victim, insults another person in a manner that impairs that person's honor or…
- Article 211Anyone who sells or offers for sale materials of any kind bearing written or printed expressions, drawings, pictures or signs, or bearing recordings of statements, whose…
- Article 212Anyone who, by a non-public means, imputes to another any of the facts set out in Article 209 or directs an insult at him, without this being the result of prior…
- Article 213There is no offence if the acts provided for in the preceding articles occur in the following circumstances: First: If the published statements or expressions are made…
- Article 214There is no offence if the defamation concerns a fact whose disclosure the court considers required by the public interest. This includes, in particular: First: Where…
- Article 215Law Index 142 Home Page Kuwaiti Penal Code Law No. 16 of 1960 Promulgating the Penal Code and Its Amendments The justification provided for in the preceding article…
- Article 216There shall be no offence if the statements or expressions amount to no more than a repetition, summary or elaboration, made in good faith, of statements or expressions…
- Article 217Anyone who takes movable property owned by another with the intention of appropriating it is deemed a thief. Taking means any act whereby the perpetrator removes a thing…
- Article 218Anyone who picks up a lost thing with the intention of taking ownership of it shall be deemed a thief, whether he had this intention at the time of picking it up or…
- Article 219Theft shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years and a fine not exceeding one hundred and fifty dinars, or by either of these two penalties,…
- Article 220Anyone who kills an animal owned by another with the intent to appropriate its carcass shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine…
- Article 221Theft shall be punishable by imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine not exceeding two hundred and twenty-five dinars, or either of these two…
- Article 222Theft shall be punishable by imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years and a fine not exceeding three hundred and seventy-five dinars, or by either of these two…
- Article 223Theft shall be punishable by imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years and a fine not exceeding three hundred and seventy-five dinars, or by either of these two…
- Article 224Theft shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, to which a fine not exceeding seven hundred and fifty dinars may be added, if committed at…
- Article 225Anyone who commits theft by using violence against persons or threatening to use it against them to overcome the resistance of the victim or another shall be punished by…
- Article 226يعاقب على السلب المذكور في المادة السابقة بالحبس مدة لا تجاوز خمسة عشر سنة، ويجوز أن تضاف إليها غرامة لا تجاوز ألف ومائة وخمسة وعشرين دينارا، إذا اقترن بأحد الظروف…
- Article 227Theft shall be punishable by life imprisonment, to which a fine not exceeding one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dinars may be added, if the following five…
- Article 228يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تجاوز خمس سنوات وبغرامة لا تجاوز ثلاثمائة وخمسة وسبعين دينارا أو بإحدى هاتين العقوبتين، كل من قصد ابتزاز مال الغير عن طريق اتهامه هو أو أي شخص آخر…
- Article 229من اغتصب بالقوة أو التهديد سندا مثبتا لوجود دين أو لإسقاطه أو مثبتا لاي تصرف آخر، أو وصل بالقوة أو التهديد إلى إتلاف هذا السند، أو اكراه أحدا بالقوة أو التهديد على إمضاء…
- Article 230Law Index 145 Home Page Kuwaiti Penal Code Law No. 16 of 1960 Promulgating the Penal Code and its Amendments Anyone who exploits a person's need, recklessness or…
- Article 231Any deception by which its perpetrator intends to cause a person to be mistaken, or to keep that person in the mistake under which that person was already labouring, in…
- Article 232Fraud shall be punishable by imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine not exceeding two hundred and twenty-five dinars, or either of these two…
- Article 233The foregoing penalties shall be imposed on anyone who, through deception, induces another to sign, seal, or place a fingerprint on an instrument creating,…
- Article 234Fraud shall be punishable by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years and a fine not exceeding one hundred and fifty dinars, or either of these two penalties, in…
- Article 235Anyone managing a commercial, industrial or agricultural enterprise whose capital consists wholly or partly of public subscriptions through shares, bonds or any other…
- Article 236The penalties specified in the preceding Article shall apply to anyone managing a commercial, industrial or agricultural undertaking whose capital consists wholly or…
- Article 237Anyone who, in bad faith, commits any of the following acts shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine not exceeding five hundred…
- Article 237 مكررA person who commits one of the acts stipulated in the preceding Article in the accounts of legal persons shall not be criminally liable if the perpetrator committed the…
- Article 237 مكرر1 أCriminal proceedings shall not be instituted for the offences stipulated in Article 237 of this Law if the injured party has not submitted his complaint to the Public…
- Article 237 مكرر1 بThe Public Prosecution shall have exclusive jurisdiction to investigate, dispose of and prosecute all offences stipulated in Article 237 of this Law.
- Article 238Anyone who sells or mortgages immovable or movable property and deliberately conceals from the purchaser or mortgagee an essential document, forges a written…
- Article 239Anyone who fraudulently obtains, for himself or another, a passport, licence or certificate that the law requires to be obtained shall be punished by imprisonment for a…
- Article 240Any person who possesses property belonging to another pursuant to a deposit, loan for use, lease, pledge, agency or any other contract requiring him to preserve the…
- Article 241No criminal proceedings shall be instituted against anyone who commits theft by extortion, fraud, or breach of trust, to the detriment of his husband or wife, ascendants…
- Article 242Anyone who consumes food or drink in establishments prepared for that purpose, even if residing therein, or occupies a room in a hotel or the like, knowing that it is…
- Article 243Any person who intentionally sets fire to an inhabited place or a place intended for habitation, a ship, a camp, mineral oil or anything extracted or manufactured from…
- Article 244كل من وضع النار عمدا في كوم من أكوام الحاصلات الزراعية أو في محصول من التبن أو العشب أو في اشجار أو فسائل أو شجيرات نامية، أو في مكان ليس مسكونا أو معدا للسكنى أو في أي…
- Article 245إذا ترتب على الافعال المنصوص عليها في المادتين السابقتين موت شخص أو أكثر كان موجودا في الاماكن المحرقة وقت وضع النار بها ، كانت العقوبة الحبس المؤبد، ويجوز أن تضاف اليه…
- Article 246Anyone who intentionally sets fire to things in order to convey it to the thing intended to be burned, instead of setting fire to it directly, shall be punished by the…
- Article 247Anyone who uses bombs, dynamite or other explosives in the circumstances set out in the preceding Articles concerning the felony of arson shall be punished by life…
- Article 248Anyone who unintentionally sets fire to something owned by him or by another, where this arises from recklessness, negligence, lack of precaution or inattention and…
- Article 249Anyone who destroys or damages movable or immovable property belonging to another, renders it unfit for use for its designated purpose, or diminishes its value or…
- Article 250If the acts specified in the preceding Article are committed against an instrument establishing a right or a register which the law requires to be prepared to establish…
Articles 251 – 30035
- Article 251Anyone who intentionally sinks a vessel or any means of maritime transport, or damages it in any manner whatsoever, shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not…
- Article 252Any person who attacks a ship on the high seas with the intention of seizing it or the goods it carries, or with the intention of harming one or more persons on board,…
- Article 253كل من قتل حيوانا مملوكا لغيره، أو أعطاه مادة سامة أو ضارة، أو جرحه، أو جعله غير مفيد أو أنقص فائدته، وكان ذلك عمدا وبدون مقتض، يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تجاوز سنتين وبغرامة لا…
- Article 254Anyone who enters immovable property in another's possession intending to prevent his possession by force or to commit an offence therein shall be punished by…
- Article 255Anyone who enters an inhabited place or a place prepared for habitation without its possessor's consent, intending to prevent his possession by force or to commit an…
- Article 256Any person possessing immovable property without right who uses violence to prevent the lawful possessor from taking possession shall be punished by imprisonment for a…
- Article 257Any alteration of the truth in a document with intent to use it in a manner creating the impression that it conforms to the truth shall constitute forgery, if the…
- Article 258Anyone who commits forgery shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine not exceeding two hundred and twenty-five dinars, or by…
- Article 259 مكررWhoever prints, publishes, broadcasts, promotes, sells, offers for sale or leaks, by any means whatsoever, questions or answers for examinations in governmental or…
- Article 259 مكرراAnyone who intentionally alters, without justification, a student's answer in any of the examinations referred to in the preceding article, or the mark awarded for it,…
- Article 260Anyone who uses a document forged by another, knowing that it is forged, shall be punished by the penalty that would be imposed on him if he himself had committed the…
- Article 261Anyone who uses a document that has lost its legal force, whether through invalidation, cancellation, supersession, suspension of its effect or expiry of that effect,…
- Article 262Anyone entrusted with a paper signed or sealed in blank who breaches that trust and writes in the blank space above the signature or seal, contrary to what was agreed,…
- Article 263Anyone who counterfeits banknotes by making a note resembling genuine banknotes, or forges them by making any alteration whatsoever to a genuine banknote, with the…
- Article 264Anyone who uses, circulates, promotes in any manner whatsoever or brings into the country a counterfeit or forged banknote, knowing it to be counterfeit or forged, shall…
- Article 265Anyone who manufactures or contributes to the manufacture of, repairs, or brings into Kuwait any machine, tool, paper or material whatsoever used in the imitation or…
- Article 266In all cases in which the preceding Articles apply, the court must, whether it rules to convict or acquit the accused, order the confiscation of the counterfeit or…
- Article 267Persons committing the felonies relating to counterfeiting or forging the banknotes mentioned in the preceding articles shall be exempt from punishment if they inform…
- Article 268Anyone who counterfeits coins by making a coin resembling genuine coins, falsifies them by reducing their metallic value using a file, shears, dissolving acid or…
- Article 269Anyone who circulates counterfeit coins in the manner specified in the preceding Article, and anyone who uses them Law Index 153 Home Page Kuwaiti Penal Code Law No. 16…
- Article 270Anyone who takes counterfeit coins believing them to be genuine, then deals in them after learning that they are counterfeit, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding…
- Article 272In all cases in which the preceding Articles apply, the court must, whether it convicts or acquits the accused, order the confiscation of the counterfeit coins and all…
- Article 273Persons who commit the felonies mentioned in Articles 268, 269, 271 shall be exempt from punishment if they inform the authorities of these crimes before their…
- Article 274Anyone who counterfeits or forges the seal of the State, the seal of a government department or the seal of a public official, with the intent to use it for its…
- Article 275The preceding penalties shall be imposed on anyone who unlawfully obtains the seal of the State, the seal of a government department, or the seal of a public official,…
- Article 276Any person who counterfeits or forges an individual's seal, and any person who counterfeits or forges stamps intending to use them in circulation, shall be punished by…
- Article 277The penalties stipulated in the preceding Article shall apply to whoever deals in counterfeit stamps Index of the Law 154 Home Page Kuwaiti Penal Code Law No. 16 of 1960…
- Article 278Anyone who removes the words or markings placed on a previously used stamp indicating its prior use, intending to use it in circulation again, shall be punished by…
- Article 279Anyone who knowingly uses in circulation a previously used stamp, without removing the words or marks indicating its previous use, shall be punished by imprisonment for…
- Article 280In all cases in which the preceding Articles apply, the court, whether it convicts or acquits the accused, must order the confiscation of the counterfeited or forged…
- Article 281Any person who impersonates another who is entitled under a will or by law to obtain particular property and appropriates that property shall be punished by imprisonment…
- Article 282كل من انتحل شخصية آخر ، واقر بالتزام أو بسند أيا كان أمام محكمة أو هيئة أو شخص مختص قانونا بتلقي هذا الاقرار ، يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تجاوز سبع سنوات، ويجوز أن تضاف إليها…
- Article 283Any debtor who commits any of the following acts shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years and a fine not exceeding 5,000 dinars, or by either…
- Article 284155 Home Page Kuwaiti Penal Code Law No. 16 of 1960 Promulgating the Penal Code and Its Amendments The same penalty specified in the preceding article shall be imposed…
- Article 285Any debtor who disposes of his property or rights at a price or value substantially below that at which they are traded in the markets, intending thereby not to pay…