Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 576

Law 70 of 1980 was enacted regulating retirement pensions and gratuities for non-Kuwaiti military personnel and establishing entitlement to a retirement pension in the exhaustively specified cases in which military service terminates. Its inclusion of the repeal of every provision contrary to its provisions. Its absence, thereafter, of a provision regulating litigation procedures concerning demands that the Public Institution for Social Security pay those entitlements. Its effect. Application of the provisions of Law 61 of 1976 promulgating the Social Security Law as the general law. Its consequence. An action seeking the insurance entitlements prescribed by its provisions may not be brought until after a written demand for them has been made to the Institution within five years from the date on which those entitlements are deemed payable.