Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1636

Procedural laws. Their application to actions not yet decided or procedures not yet completed before their effective date. Exception: provisions amending time limits. Its condition: the time limit began before those provisions’ effective date. What is meant thereby: provisions amending a time limit stipulated in a previous procedural law. Time limits not previously stipulated. This exception does not apply to them. - The introduction in Article 70 of the Code of Procedure, following its amendment by Law No. 36 of 2002, of a 30-day period for the claimant to resume his action following a stay. The former provision’s lack of a specified period for resumption. Its effect: the exception in paragraph (b) of Article 1 of the Code of Procedure does not apply. Its implication: the aforementioned time limit begins from the effective date of the newly introduced provision. Its basis. An example. - Newly introduced procedural time limits run only from the effective date of the provision introducing them.