Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 351

The wording of the text is clear in meaning. It is impermissible to adopt anything contrary to it, restricting it, or adding to it. The reason therefor. - Inquiry into the rationale and motives of legislation. It is impermissible except where it is obscure or ambiguous. The reason: implication is of no account in the face of an express statement. - Article 101 of Law 23 of 1968 concerning the Police System appearing in Part Four under the title Termination of Service. Its implication. Its application is confined to termination of service by retirement. Its scope of application differs from Article 64 of the same law, which applies in cases of promotion while continuing in service. The text of the former is clear that the only condition it imposed for granting a police officer the higher rank upon retirement is that he have completed the requisite minimum period for that rank. Table No. 1 of the annex to Law No. 23 of 1968, as amended by Law 37 of 1979, contains no specified minimum period required to remain in the rank of brigadier for promotion to the rank of major general. The challenged judgment’s ruling that the respondent is entitled to retire at the grade of major general and to have his financial entitlements settled on that basis. No defect.