Article 31 of Decree-Law No. 15 of 1979 concerning the Civil Service

The termination of the employee’s service for any reason shall not preclude his criminal and civil liability where appropriate. Termination of Service Article 32 (1) Service shall terminate for one of the following reasons: (1) Amended pursuant to Law No. 28 of 2016 Index of the Law 817 Home Page Civil Service Decree Decree-Law No. 15 of 1979 concerning the Civil Service 1 - Resignation. 2 - Non-renewal of appointment to a leadership position. 3 - Referral to retirement. 4 - Dismissal by a disciplinary decision. 5 - (Repealed). 6 - A sentence imposing a penalty restricting liberty for a felony or an offence involving dishonour or breach of trust. The Minister may retain the employee where a judgment suspending execution of the penalty is issued. 7 - Loss or withdrawal of Kuwaiti nationality. 8 - Medical unfitness for service or exhaustion of sick leave, whichever occurs first. 9 - Reaching the age of sixty-five for Kuwaitis and non-Kuwaitis. Excluded from this are mosque imams, preachers and muezzins, washers of the dead, physicians, medical professions, members of teaching and training staff at public universities and public applied institutes, and scientific researchers at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, whose service shall terminate upon reaching the age of seventy-five, in accordance with the rules and provisions laid down by the Civil Service Council. 10 - Death. General and Transitional Provisions