Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 47

Civil Commercial Procedures Law(*). Its application to actions not adjudicated or procedures not completed before its entry into force. Article (1). The exception. Provisions amending time limits where the time limit had commenced before their effective date and the amended time limit was prescribed in an earlier procedural law. Its implication. Time limits not previously prescribed are not subject to the exception. - The amendment to Article 70 of the Procedures Law introduces a period of 30 days following expiry of the stay period, within which the plaintiff must reactivate his action. Introduction of a grace period absent from the existing text; thus, the exception in Article 1 of the Procedures Law does not apply to it.