Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 585

The enactment of Law 70 of 1980 regulating retirement pensions and gratuities for non-Kuwaiti military personnel and its establishment of the right to a retirement pension in the cases of termination of military service exhaustively specified therein. Its inclusion of the repeal of every provision contrary to its provisions. Its further absence of a provision regulating the manner of litigation concerning a claim against the Public Institution for Social Security for payment of those entitlements. Its effect. The provisions of Law No. 61 of 1976 promulgating the Social Security Law apply as the general law. Its import. An action seeking the insurance entitlements established by its provisions may not be brought until they have been demanded from the Institution in writing within five years from the date on which those entitlements are deemed payable.