Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 112

Retroactivity may only be established by a law in non-penal matters. The implication thereof. Administrative decisions apply only to what occurs from the date of their issuance by those empowered to issue them. An administrative decision providing for its effect to extend to the past. Its lack of effect with respect to this retroactivity, for contravening the provisions of the Constitution, which are superior. To ordinary laws.