National Assembly Elections Law
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- Article 1In applying the provisions of this Law, the following words and expressions shall have the meanings indicated opposite each: General Elections Commission: The authority…
- Article 2The General Elections Commission shall be established and shall undertake the supervision of elections and the organisation of the electoral process in coordination with…
- Article 3The General Elections Commission shall be responsible for the following: 1. Preparing electoral rolls and updating entries in accordance with what the Public Authority…
- Article 4State agencies shall assist the General Elections Commission in exercising its powers and provide it with such data, information or documents as it requests and…
- Article 5The chair and members of the General Elections Commission shall have the right to be present at the premises of the electoral committees to monitor the conduct of the…
- Article 6The President and members of the General Elections Commission and the employees of the General Secretariat are prohibited from the following: 1. Standing as candidates…
- Article 7Neither the chairperson nor any member of the General Elections Commission, nor any employee of the General Secretariat, may be related up to the second degree to any…
- Article 8Each electoral constituency shall have one or more electoral rolls prepared by the General Commission for Elections in accordance with the provisions of this Law. It may…
- Article 9The electoral register shall include the name of every Kuwaiti who meets the conditions necessary for the exercise of his electoral rights and resides in the electoral…
- Article 10The Public Authority for Civil Information shall provide the General Secretariat of the General Elections Commission with lists containing the full names and particulars…
- Article 11Every Kuwaiti may object to the non-inclusion of his name in the electoral register for his electoral constituency if his name has been wrongfully omitted, and every…
- Article 12The transfer of electoral registration between constituencies shall be suspended from the beginning of the final session of the legislative term. Transfer of…
- Article 13Without prejudice to the privacy and data protection provisions contained in Law No. (20) of 2014 concerning Electronic Transactions, the General Secretariat of the…
- Article 14A voter may not be registered on more than one roll. If there are multiple registrations, only the registration conforming to what Article (10) of this Law prescribes…
- Article 15The electoral rolls shall constitute conclusive evidence at the time of the election, and no person may participate therein unless his name is entered in them. Chapter…
- Article 16Every Kuwaiti who has attained the age of twenty-one full Gregorian years shall have the right to vote, except a naturalized person whose naturalization has not been…
- Article 17Anyone convicted by a final and irrevocable judgment carrying a felony penalty, or of an offence involving dishonour or breach of trust, or an offence against the Divine…
- Article 18The exercise of the right to vote shall be suspended in respect of military personnel belonging to the armed forces Index of the Law 89 Home Page National Assembly…
- Article 19A voter may not cast his vote more than once in the same election. Part Five The Candidate
- Article 20A person who nominates himself for membership of the National Assembly must meet the following requirements: 1. He must be a Kuwaiti national by origin pursuant to Amiri…
- Article 21Applications for candidacy shall be submitted in writing to the General Secretariat of the General Elections Commission during official working hours in the ten days…
- Article 22Anyone wishing to nominate himself shall pay an amount of fifty Kuwaiti dinars to the Commission. The nomination application shall not be accepted unless accompanied by…
- Article 23No one may nominate himself in more than one electoral district. If a candidate is found in more than one district, he must withdraw his candidacy in all but one…
- Article 24After the close of nominations, the General Elections Commission shall announce the names of all candidates in accordance with the mechanism specified in the Executive…
- Article 25If the number of candidates validly nominated in an electoral district does not exceed the number required to be elected, the General Elections Commission shall declare…
- Article 26Kuwait Municipality shall issue the necessary licences for electoral premises and advertisements in accordance with the controls determined by the Commission as set out…
- Article 27All electoral publicity activities for a candidate shall cease twenty-four hours before the time specified for the commencement of voting. Part Six Election Procedures…
- Article 28The date of general elections shall be determined by decree, and the date of supplementary elections shall be determined by a decision of the General Electoral…
- Article 29Ballot boxes shall be prepared, and ballot papers printed in the form determined by the General Elections Commission.
- Article 30The administration of the election in each constituency shall be entrusted to a number of committees, one of which shall be a main committee to which original committees…
- Article 31None of the judges or members of the Public Prosecution appointed to chair electoral committees, nor any member of these committees, may be related up to the second…
- Article 32The committee shall select from among its members a rapporteur who shall draw up the election minutes and have them signed by the chair of the committee and the other…
- Article 33Maintaining order at the polling station shall be entrusted to the chairman of the committee, who may, for that purpose, request a police force when necessary. Neither…
- Article 34Candidates and their agents have the right to enter the election hall, and they may appoint as an agent at each polling station one of the electors in the constituency,…
- Article 35The election shall be universal, secret and direct.
- Article 36The election process shall run from eight in the morning until eight in the evening, and from eleven in the morning until eleven in the evening when conducted during the…
- Article 37Every voter must present his nationality certificate to the committee when casting his vote. The committee must examine it and stamp it with a special stamp after his…
- Article 38The committee chairman shall hand each voter a ballot paper to express his opinion. The voter shall withdraw behind the areas designated for expressing opinions inside…
- Article 39Subject to the provisions of Article (36) of this Law, the chairman of the electoral committee shall announce the close of the electoral process. If all voters attend…
- Article 40The main and subsidiary committees shall administer the electoral process in accordance with the foregoing procedures until the conclusion of the electoral process, and…
- Article 41The chairpersons of the primary committees shall receive the original records of the counting of votes of the subsidiary committees and the ballot boxes. Each shall, in…
- Article 42The following shall be deemed invalid: 1. Votes subject to a condition. 2. Votes recorded on a paper other than that delivered by the committee. 3. Votes recorded on a…
- Article 43Without prejudice to the jurisdiction of the judicial authority adjudicating the validity of electoral challenges, the committee shall decide all matters relating to the…
- Article 44The chairman of the main committee shall supervise and follow up the electoral process in the constituency and issue instructions and directions ensuring its proper…
- Article 45The President of the General Elections Commission shall announce the names of the members elected in accordance with the records of election results in all…
- Article 46The General Secretariat of the National Assembly shall deliver to each of the members who have won membership a certificate of his election. Part Seven Electoral…
- Article 47Any interested party may challenge the decision issued by the General Elections Commission provided for in the last paragraph of Article (11) of this Law before the…
- Article 48Anyone whose candidacy has been excluded from the lists of candidates may challenge the decision excluding him before the competent Administrative Circuit within three…
- Article 49Every voter may request the annulment of the election held in his electoral constituency, and every candidate may request this in the constituency in which he stood as a…
- Article 50The Public Prosecution shall have jurisdiction to investigate, dispose of, and prosecute all offences provided for in this Law and offences connected therewith.
Articles 51 – 10016
- Article 51The election committee chairperson shall draw up a record of offences committed or attempted inside the polling hall, or offences outside the hall of which he becomes…
- Article 52The following shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months and a fine not exceeding three thousand Kuwaiti dinars, or by either of these two…
- Article 53The following shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years and a fine of not less than two thousand Kuwaiti dinars and not exceeding five…
- Article 54Anyone who violates the prescribed rules concerning sources of funding and the upper limit of electoral expenditure shall be punished by a fine equivalent to twice the…
- Article 55An attempt to commit the aforementioned electoral offences shall be punished by the penalty prescribed for the completed offence. Part Eight General Provisions 97 Home…
- Article 56Ministers, judges, members of the Public Prosecution, members of the Commission, and employees of the General Elections Commission may not nominate themselves unless…
- Article 57An elected member of the Assembly may not combine membership with holding public office. If an employee is elected, he shall be deemed to have relinquished his…
- Article 58A member of the National Assembly may not, during his term of membership, be appointed to the board of directors of a company or participate in undertakings contracted…
- Article 59A member of the National Assembly shall forfeit membership if he loses any of its requirements, or if it becomes apparent that he lacked them before the election.…
- Article 60The electoral constituencies, each of them, and the number each elects shall be determined by a special law.
- Article 61The provisions of this Law shall apply to the elections prescribed for selecting members of the Municipal Council, and to all matters concerning those elections for…
- Article 62The Public Authority for Civil Information shall send to the General Elections Commission, within twenty days from the date this Law enters into force, the lists…
- Article 63The Commission may use secure modern technological means in all or some stages of elections in a manner falling within its competence. It may seek the assistance of…
- Article 64During the period from publication of the decree or decision calling the elections until the announcement of the detailed election results, no investigative, search,…
- Article 65Law No. (35) of 1962 concerning the Election of Members of the National Assembly and the laws amending it are repealed. Every provision conflicting with this Law is also…
- Article 66The Commission shall prepare the Executive Regulations of this Law, which shall be issued by decree upon the submission of the Minister of Justice within six months of…