Decree of 1979 concerning the Civil Service Regulations
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- Article 1A person appointed to a post must: 1- Be of Kuwaiti nationality; if none is available, preference shall be given to non-Kuwaiti children of a Kuwaiti mother, then to…
- Article 2The Personnel Bureau shall, in agreement with the competent government entity, determine the positions for which passing a test is required, as well as [وع] the rules…
- Article 3The Civil Service Council shall determine the appointment grade and the salary granted therein, taking into account the type of post and the level, type and rarity of…
- Article 4Appointment to the general posts group requires an educational qualification consistent with the nature of the post. The Civil Service Council shall determine the levels…
- Article 5The Civil Service Council formed a committee from the Ministry of Education, Kuwait University and the Personnel Bureau Index of the Law 792 Home Page Civil Service…
- Article 6The Civil Service Council shall, upon the proposal of the Personnel Bureau, establish the rules and provisions for appointment in both the assistant technical positions…
- Article 7The groups of positions, their corresponding grades, their salary scales, the categories of periodic increments, and the prescribed minimum period of remaining in each…
- Article 8Without prejudice to Article (3) of these Regulations, an employee shall, upon appointment, be granted the starting salary of the grade to which he is appointed and…
- Article 9Appointment to the grades of the posts group shall be by a decision of the Minister, and to the grades of the two groups of assistant technical posts and auxiliary posts…
- Article 10The seniority of the employees concerned in each grade within the same occupational group shall be ranked according to the date of appointment to it. If more than one…
- Article 11An employee who has left service may be reappointed to the same grade previously held, at the same salary received or at a higher salary, or to a grade higher than the…
- Article 12The employee shall be notified by a copy of the decision appointing him. If he does not assume work within a month from the date of his notification by a copy of the…
- Article 13Except for leadership positions, a person appointed for the first time shall be placed on probation for one year, during which, or within one month of its expiry, that…
- Article 14The immediate supervisor shall assess the competence of the employees he supervises who hold posts in the general, assistant technical, and auxiliary job groups for each…
- Article 16The Personnel Affairs Unit shall provide the employee in respect of whom a report with a rating of poor has been submitted with a copy of that report. He may lodge a…
- Article 17The case of an employee who receives two consecutive final reports with a rating of poor shall be referred to the Undersecretary of the Ministry to consider imposing one…
- Article 21By a decision of the Minister, upon a proposal of the Personnel Affairs Committee, an employee may be granted an incentive increment at the rate of his periodic…
- Article 24An employee may be promoted by selection by a decision of the Minister upon the proposal of the Personnel Affairs Committee, subject to the following conditions: 1- A…
- Article 25The Civil Service Council may, upon a proposal by the Personnel Bureau, add other provisions for promotion in addition to the provisions stipulated in the preceding…
- Article 26Seniority among employees promoted on the same date shall be ranked according to their seniority in their previous grade. In all cases, if the date of an employee's…
- Article 27By a decision of the Minister, one or more personnel affairs committees shall be formed, according to the type of work or the size of the government entity, consisting…
- Article 28The Personnel Affairs Committee shall meet at the invitation of its chairman or at the request of the Minister. The meeting shall be valid if attended by the chairman of…
- Article 29Personnel affairs decisions shall be taken by a majority of votes. If the votes are equal, the side on which the chairperson votes shall prevail. Abstention from voting…
- Article 30Minutes shall be kept of the Committee’s meetings, including, in particular, the matters presented to it and the decisions and proposals it has reached. The minutes…
- Article 30 مكرر بBefore the expiry of the term of occupancy of the leadership position, the competent Minister shall submit a report to the Council of Ministers stating his opinion on…
- Article 30 مكرر جPosts in the Amiri Diwan, the Diwan of His Highness the Crown Prince, the Diwan of His Highness the Prime Minister and the General Secretariat of the Council of…
- Article 31An employee may be transferred within the government entity to a position of the same grade as his position and in the same occupational group, and from one government…
- Article 32By a decision of the authority competent to make appointments, an employee may be assigned full-time or part-time to undertake temporarily the duties of another post of…
- Article 33The employee may, after giving consent, be returned to the following entities: 1 - Public authorities and institutions. 2 - Sports bodies and public benefit…
- Article 34Upon the secondment of an employee, his post shall remain vacant. In cases of necessity, it may be filled temporarily by appointment if the secondment is without salary…
- Article 35The leave that may be granted to an employee is: 1 - Emergency leave. 2 - Annual leave. - Special leave with full or reduced salary or without salary. 4 - Sick leave.
- Article 36An employee may be absent from work for an emergency reason that the employee is unable to report in advance in order to obtain permission to be absent. Emergency leave…
- Article 38Periodic leave shall be granted only upon a request from the employee and within the limits of the employee's balance of such leave, and the employee may not take…
- Article 40Upon termination of his service, the employee shall be entitled to a cash allowance for the balance of his unused periodic leave, not exceeding one hundred and eighty…
- Article 41Upon termination of his service, an employee shall be entitled to a cash payment in lieu of his unused periodic leave balance, not exceeding one hundred and eighty days,…
- Article 42As an exception to the provisions of the preceding articles, the Civil Service Council shall, upon the proposal of the Personnel Bureau, determine the duration of…
- Article 43The Minister may grant the employee special leave with full salary, not counted as his other leave, for a period of thirty days to perform the obligatory Hajj…
- Article 44In the event of the death of the spouse one of his relatives of the first or second degree, the employee shall be granted leave with full salary for a period not…
- Article 45The Minister may grant an employee special leave, after exhaustion of his annual leave balance, to accompany a patient whose treatment abroad with an accompanying person…
- Article 46With the Minister's approval, an employee may be granted full-pay release leave to perform specified artistic or literary works or undertake specified scientific or…
- Article 47A female employee shall be entitled to special leave on full salary, not counted against her other leave, for a period of two months for childbirth, provided that…
- Article 48With the Minister's approval, a Muslim female employee whose husband dies may be granted special leave with full salary for four months and ten days from the date of…
- Article 49The Minister may grant a female employee special leave with full pay, reduced pay or without pay to accompany her employee husband abroad if he is transferred or sent on…
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- Article 51An employee may, upon his request, be granted special leave with full pay, half pay or without pay, other than the special leaves provided for in these Regulations, in…
- Article 52If an employee becomes ill, he shall be granted sick leave by a decision of the Medical Authority for a period not exceeding two years. A decision shall be issued by the…
- Article 53Authorization of sick leave shall be in accordance with the rules issued by a decision of the Civil Service (1) Amended pursuant to Decree-Law No. 395 of 2009 (2)…
- Article 54Suspension from work in the interests of an investigation pursuant to item (1) of Article (30) of the aforementioned Civil Service Law shall be by decision of the…
- Article 55No disciplinary penalty may be imposed on the employee except by a reasoned decision after conducting an investigation with him in writing or orally, hearing his…
- Article 56The referral for investigation of employees holding posts in the leadership and general job groups shall be by decision of the Minister. Referral shall be by decision of…
- Article 57The investigation shall be conducted only in the employee's presence. Nevertheless, it may be conducted in the employee's absence if the interests of the investigation…
- Article 58Every employee summoned to give testimony in an investigation who refuses to attend or to disclose the information in his possession without an acceptable excuse shall…
- Article 59If, during the investigation, a suspicion of an offense under general law becomes apparent to the investigator, the investigator must submit the matter to the…
- Article 60The disciplinary penalties that may be imposed on employees are: 1 - Warning. 2 - Deduction from salary for a period not exceeding fifteen days on any one occasion and…
- Article 61The Ministry's Undersecretary shall have competence to impose all disciplinary penalties referred to in the preceding Article on holders of posts in the technical and…
- Article 62The Civil Service Council shall have jurisdiction to discipline holders of positions in the leadership positions group by imposing the penalties of censure and dismissal…
- Article 63The referral of holders of posts in the leadership posts group to the Civil Service Council as a disciplinary body shall be by a decision of the Minister containing a…
- Article 64The competent disciplinary authority may punish an employee in absentia if the employee fails to appear for questioning without an acceptable excuse despite having been…
- Article 65Except for holders of posts in the leadership posts group, referral of an employee for investigation and conduct thereof shall fall within the competence of the…
- Article 66Without prejudice to Article (63) of these Regulations, if the penalty of dismissal from service is imposed on an employee, he shall have the right to inspect the…
- Article 67An employee suspended from work or referred for investigation or criminal trial for a felony or an offence involving dishonour or breach of trust may not be promoted…
- Article 68The promotion of an employee on whom a disciplinary penalty has been imposed may not be considered until the periods specified opposite each thereof have elapsed: Six…
- Article 69An employee may not be punished for a violation committed five years previously unless this period is interrupted by investigation of the employee, suspension from work,…
- Article 70Disciplinary penalties imposed on an employee shall be expunged upon the expiry of the following period without any disciplinary penalty being imposed: Six months in the…
- Article 71Service shall terminate for one of the following reasons: 1- Resignation. 2- Non-renewal of appointment to a leadership position. 3- Referral to retirement. 4- Dismissal…
- Article 72Medical unfitness for service shall be established by a decision of the competent medical body at the request of the employee or the government entity to which he…
- Article 73The cases and conditions of medical unfitness, as well as the competent medical bodies and their working system, shall be determined by a decision of the Minister of…
- Article 74An employee may submit his resignation from his position. The decision accepting it shall be issued by the Minister if the employee holds a position in the leadership…
- Article 75The employee shall continue to perform their work until notified of the decision accepting the resignation or until the period specified for deeming it accepted expires.…
- Article 76An employee may be referred for retirement provided that he would be entitled to a retirement pension if his service were to end by resignation at the time of such…
- Article 77Employees referred to retirement pursuant to the preceding Article may not be reappointed to government entities subject to these Regulations.
- Article 78If Kuwaiti nationality is withdrawn from an employee or he is deprived of it, his service shall terminate by operation of law from the date of issuance of the decree…
- Article 79If an employee is penalized by dismissal from service and is suspended from work, his service shall terminate from the date of his suspension. In this case, amounts…
- Article 80An employee shall be entitled to his salary up to the day on which his service terminates for one of the reasons provided for in Article (71).
- Article 81If an employee is absent from work without permission, even if this follows leave authorized for him, he shall be deprived of his salary for the period of his absence,…
- Article 82Official holidays shall be determined by a resolution of the Council of Ministers. A resolution of the Civil Service Council, upon the proposal of the Civil Service…
- Article 83The Minister may assign the employee to perform work or missions relating to the government entity inside or outside the country, and the period of assignment shall be…
- Article 84The period provided for in these Regulations shall be calculated according to the Gregorian calendar.
- Article 85The Personnel Bureau shall issue the instructions and directives necessary for the application of the provisions of these Regulations and follow up on their…
- Article 86The Personnel Affairs Unit shall assume responsibility for applying the provisions of the laws, decisions and regulations relating to personnel affairs in the government…
- Article 87Government entities subject to these Regulations shall provide the Personnel Bureau with all the information it requests and facilitate access by its representatives to…
- Article 88Employees in service at the time these Regulations enter into force who engage in any of the activities prohibited under Article (26) of the Civil Service Law shall be…
- Article 89The balance of periodic leave accrued by employees in service at the time these Regulations enter into force shall be frozen. It may be used in addition to the periodic…
- Article 90The disciplinary boards provided for in the Civil Public Positions Law shall continue to hear Law Index 807 Home Page Civil Service Regulations Decree of 1979 concerning…
- Article 91The Civil Service Council shall, upon the proposal of the Personnel Bureau, specify the rules and provisions for transferring employees in service when these Regulations…
- Article 92For employees in service at the time these Regulations come into force, the dates of entitlement to their periodic increment shall be transferred to the dates provided…
- Article 93The regulations and decisions in force concerning employment matters when these Regulations enter into force shall continue to apply for one year or until the…
- Article 94The Prime Minister and the Ministers, each within his respective competence, shall implement this Decree. It shall be published in the Official Gazette and shall take…