Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 564

Waiver by the victim spouse in the offence of adultery. An exception to which no analogy may be drawn. - The offence of intercourse with a female who has attained fifteen years but has not attained twenty-one years, provided for in Article 188/1 of the Penal Code. Its elements are independent of the offence of adultery. It does not require the victim to lodge a complaint or waive it, and it is not among the offences exhaustively listed in Article 240 of the Criminal Procedure Law in which reconciliation or individual pardon by the victim is permissible. Waiver in respect thereof has no effect and has no bearing on exemption from punishment. - 151 - Penal Law