Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 960

The general rule is that an individual declaration made by a person concerning a matter relating to his own status, involving no usurpation of another person's capacity or right, does not constitute forgery punishable under the Penal Code. The legislature's departure from this rule for certain considerations and requirements it assesses, deeming a person's provision of untrue particulars in a particular context or before an authority, with knowledge of their untruth, to constitute an independently criminalized act. Expressing this by enacting a separate law specifying the criminalized acts and the penalty prescribed for their perpetrator, without referring in that respect to the Penal Code provisions on forgery offenses. - Providing untrue particulars to the committee competent to investigate Kuwaiti nationality with a view to acquiring that nationality. Criminalized under Article 21 bis b of Law 15 of 1959 concerning Kuwaiti Nationality, as amended by Law 30 of 1970, regardless of the rule concerning individual declarations in the forgery offenses set out in the Penal Code. The challenged judgment's contravention of this. Renders it defective and requires its cassation. Tenth: Obvious forgery:-