Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 394

Brokerage, even if undertaken as an isolated act. A commercial act. A non-Kuwaiti is prohibited from engaging in it independently, even if he does not practise it professionally. The reason for this prohibition is the protection of local trade and the safeguarding of national commercial activity against competition from the foreign element. This prohibition relates to public policy. The effect of a contract’s contravention of this prohibition. Its nullity. - A rule relating to public policy. The sanction for its violation. Absolute nullity. Example.