Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 300

Procedural laws. Apply to actions not yet decided or procedures not yet completed before their effective date. Exception: provisions amending time limits. Its condition: the time limit must have begun before these provisions came into force. What is meant: provisions amending a time limit stipulated in an earlier procedural law. Time limits not previously stipulated. This exception does not apply to them. - The introduction in Article 70 of the Code of Procedure, following its amendment by Law 36 of 2002, of a period of thirty days for the claimant to resume his action following a stay. The previous provision's failure to specify a period for resumption. Effect: the exception in paragraph (b) of Article One of the Code of Procedure does not apply. Implication: the said time limit begins to run from the effective date of the newly introduced provision. Basis thereof. Example. - 64 - Law - Newly introduced procedural time limits run only from the effective date of the provision introducing them.