Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 695

Kuwait Airways Corporation. A public institution among public-law persons, administered by a board of directors whose legally specified powers include issuing decisions concerning the appointment, promotion, transfer and dismissal of the Corporation’s employees and workers and determining their salaries, bonuses and pensions in accordance with the regulations prepared in this regard, as an exception to governmental rules and systems. Issuance of the Service Regulations for the Corporation’s Personnel and the provision in Article 88 thereof for applying the provisions of the Civil Service Law and Regulations to all personnel subject to these Regulations in matters for which no special provision is made. - Applicability of Article 3/b of Decree-Law 15/1979 concerning the Civil Service to entities whose service affairs are governed by special laws, in matters for which no special provision is made in those laws. - The provision of Article 56/8 of the Service Regulations for Kuwait Airways Corporation Personnel does not contravene Article 32 of Decree-Law No. 15/1979 concerning the Civil Service. The effect thereof. Absence of any suspicion of unconstitutionality and absence of the plea of unconstitutionality of Article 56/8 of the aforementioned Regulations.