Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 358

The judge must refer to the statutory provision governing the dispute in the action. - Statutory provisions whose meaning is clear. It is impermissible to adopt what contradicts them, restrict them, add to them, or depart from their rule. The reason therefor. Not to introduce a new rule differing from the legislature's intent. - Members of the General Department of Investigations. Their employment affairs, including appointment, promotion, investigation, and discipline, are regulated by Law 53 of 2001 and Decree 4 of 2002. In Article 2 of the first Law, the legislature introduced new titles for the posts of this Department, differing from those in their previous employment system, and transferred them to the equivalent new posts. Its consequence is that they retain their seniority in the posts to which they are transferred and receive the salary of the post to which they are transferred or the basic salary that any of them was receiving when the Law came into force, whichever is greater. - Determination of the criteria for establishing equivalence and transfer to the new posts. The Law refers this to a decision to be issued by the Minister of Interior.