Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 511

Decree-Law 70 of 1980. Regulated the rights of non-Kuwaiti military personnel and established their entitlement to a retirement pension in cases where military service ends. Its repeal of preceding legislation in respect of military personnel subject to its provisions and every provision contrary to those provisions. Its necessary consequence. The criterion for a retirement pension under this Law is the termination of service subject to the conditions and controls set out therein, through the existence of one of the grounds exhaustively specified in its second article. Absence of these grounds. Its effect. Entitlement only to a retirement gratuity for a person whose service was terminated after the provisions of this Law came into effect. Example concerning a claim for a retirement pension for non-Kuwaiti military personnel.