Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 289

Reliance on the immunity acquired by administrative decisions through expiry of the time limits for seeking their annulment. Its condition: those decisions must create legal positions for the persons concerned and must be issued within the limits of the discretionary power vested in administrative authorities by law. Where the decision applies mandatory, binding rules. It is regarded as merely implementing and declaring the right from which the law derives directly, and the administrative authority may withdraw decisions of this kind if it finds that they contravene the law. The reason therefor. The absence in this case of an acquired right which the administrative authority would be precluded from affecting.