Anti-Corruption Law
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- Article 1For the purposes of applying the provisions of this Law, the words and expressions below shall have the meaning indicated opposite each, unless the context requires…
- Article 2The provisions of this Law shall apply to the following categories: 1- The Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Ministers, Ministers and anyone holding an executive position at…
- Article 3A public authority called the Public Anti-Corruption Authority shall be established, supervised by the Minister of Justice. ‘Ayn It shall perform its tasks and exercise…
- Article 5The Authority shall exercise the following functions and powers: 1 - Establishing a comprehensive national strategy for integrity, transparency and combating corruption,…
- Article 6The Authority shall have a Board of Directors composed of five full-time members, appointed by decree upon nomination by the competent Minister for a term of four years…
- Article 7A member of the Board of Trustees must satisfy the following conditions: 1 - Be of Kuwaiti nationality. 2 - Be not less than forty years of age. 3 - Hold at least a…
- Article 9If the Chairman, the Vice-Chairman, or any member of the Board of Trustees commits a serious breach of his duties, the competent Minister shall, after the approval of…
- Article 9 مكررThe Public Prosecution shall have exclusive competence to investigate, dispose of and prosecute offences committed by the chairman and members of the Board of Trustees…
- Article 11The Chairman of the Board of Trustees, his deputy, and its members shall, before assuming their duties, take the following oath before His Highness the Amir: I swear by…
- Article 12The Authority shall have an executive apparatus that handles technical, administrative and financial matters as follows: 1 - The President shall supervise the executive…
- Article 14The President shall issue a decision specifying the employees at the Authority who shall undertake the detection and monitoring of corruption offences, the recording of…
- Article 15The chairman and members of the Board of Trustees and the Authority's employees are prohibited from disclosing any secret, information, or data that came to their…
- Article 17Regulations governing the activities of the current and former members of the Authority's Board of Trustees and its employees shall be issued by a decision of the…
- Article 18The Authority shall have an attached budget within the State's general budget, and its preparation shall follow the rules and procedures governing the State's general…
- Article 19The President of the Authority shall have the powers conferred on the Minister of Finance regarding the use of the financial appropriations allocated in the Authority's…
- Article 20With due regard for the inviolability of private life and the honour and dignity of persons, every person who learns of the commission of a corruption offence shall…
- Article 22The following offences shall be considered corruption offences within the scope of application of this Law: 1- Offences against public funds provided for in Law No. 1 of…
- Article 23The Authority shall follow up on the procedures for the seizure, attachment and recovery of funds and proceeds derived from corruption crimes in accordance with the…
- Article 24Without prejudice to the provisions of Law No. 32 of 1968 concerning Currency, the Central Bank of Kuwait (1) Item 13 added pursuant to Decree-Law No. 69 of 2025 Law…
- Article 25Subject to the provisions of Article 28 of this Law, the Authority has the right to address and summon any person connected with a corruption offence to hear his…
- Article 27Subject to the provisions of Law No. 88 of 1995 concerning the Trial of Ministers, the Public Prosecution alone shall have competence to investigate, dispose of, and…
- Article 28The rules provided for in the laws in force shall apply to apprehension, investigation, and trial procedures in corruption offences. If the person to whom the corruption…
- Article 29Correspondence, information, documents and reports connected with corruption offences and the examination or investigation conducted concerning them, as well as…
- Article 29 مكررThe Board of Trustees shall issue a reasoned decision, by a majority of its members, to close the report submitted to the Authority if it finds that the conditions for…
- Article 29 مكرراThe Authority shall have the right to submit grievances against decisions issued by the competent investigating authorities to close reports referred by it, in…
- Article 30The categories stipulated in Article 2 of this Law shall submit financial disclosure declarations in accordance with the provisions of this Part.
- Article 32All persons subject to the provisions of this Part must submit the declaration after issuance of the Executive Regulations in accordance with the following time limits:…
- Article 32 مكررSubject to the provisions of the aforementioned Law No. )20( of 2014, a person subject to this Law may deposit his financial disclosure declaration and any other papers…
- Article 34Where there is suspicion of an illicit enrichment offence, the Authority may confidentially request from individuals or governmental or private entities inside and…
- Article 34 مكررAfter obtaining permission from the Public Prosecution, the Authority may require any person—even if not subject to the provisions of this Law—to submit a financial…
- Article 35The examination committees shall prepare a report on every person subject to the provisions of this Part who is likely to have an increase in his financial assets…
- Article 36Without prejudice to the provisions of Law No. 1 of 1993 concerning the protection of public funds, the Public Prosecution may, when conducting the investigation, if it…
- Article 37Reporting corruption offences is a duty incumbent on every person. The informant's liberty, security and tranquillity are guaranteed in accordance with the provisions of…
- Article 39The Executive Regulations shall specify the procedures for submitting a report, taking into account ease of submission and maintaining the complete confidentiality of…
- Article 40The reporting person shall enjoy protection from the time the report is submitted, and protection shall extend to his spouse, relatives and all persons closely connected…
- Article 41Protection of the reporting person shall include the following: 1 - Providing personal protection to the reporting person: by not disclosing his identity or whereabouts…
- Article 41 مكررThe Authority is prohibited from disclosing the identity and details of the reporting person unless judicial procedures require otherwise, or on the basis of the…
- Article 41 مكرر(1)The Authority is prohibited from disclosing the identity and details of the reporting person unless judicial proceedings require otherwise, or pursuant to the reporting…
- Article 42The Executive Regulations shall specify the means that the Authority may provide to the reporting person to give his statements in a manner that affords him all…
- Article 43The State shall compensate the reporting person or his heirs for any material or moral damage he suffers as a result of submitting a report satisfying the conditions set…
- Article 45Whoever violates the provisions of Articles )51, 61, 62, 92, 43 bis( of this Law shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine of not…
- Article 46 مكررThe Authority may settle offences relating to delay in submitting a financial disclosure declaration whenever the required declaration is submitted within the ninety…
- Article 47If the person subject to this Law knowingly submits an incomplete or incorrect financial disclosure declaration, or fails to submit a declaration for any person over…
- Article 49Every judgment of conviction for the crime stipulated in Article 48 of this Law shall entail the removal of the convicted person from his position or the forfeiture of…
- Article 50Every person other than those specified in Articles 47 and 48 who derives a substantial benefit from illicit gain with knowledge thereof shall be punished by half the…
Articles 51 – 1008
- Article 51Anyone who discloses the identity or domicile of the reporting person shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years and a fine of not less than…
- Article 52Every official proven to have taken an administrative measure against a reporting person because of his reporting an offence among the offences provided for in this Law…
- Article 53Without prejudice to any more severe penalty, a person reporting corruption offenses shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years if he…
- Article 54The criminal action in respect of the corruption offences mentioned in Article 22 of this Law shall not lapse, nor shall the penalty imposed for these offences lapse by…
- Article 55The court may join to the proceedings any natural or legal person whom it considers to have derived a substantial benefit from illicit gain, and the judgment for…
- Article 56 مكرر1( Added pursuant to Decree-Law No. 69 of 2025 In serving documents relating to the application of the provisions of this Law and its Executive Regulations, the…
- Article 57The Executive Regulations of this Law shall be issued by decree upon the proposal of the Board of Trustees within two months of the issuance of this Law and shall be…
- Article 58Every provision that conflicts with this Law is repealed.