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Kuwait: Charter of Accounting Companies Law Issued

27/11/202027/11/2020
by Benjamin Filaferro

Kuwait’s Trade and Industry Ministry has issued a charter regulating the companies who offer accounting and auditing services. Under the charter, the minimum threshold for companies offering accounting and auditing services should be at least 10,000 Dinars. The license will last for four years and the company will have to have insurance cover of between 250,000 and one million Dinars. This will have to be provided by a local or global company with branches in Kuwait. The insurance policy should cover professional mistakes by partners or employees. In addition, under the charter, a partner or shareholder cannot be a partner or shareholder in another company which offers accounting services or in a company which offers auditing services.

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Kuwait: Penalties for MPs Who Fail to Make Financial Disclosures Announced

20/11/202020/11/2020
by Benjamin Filaferro

Sources have confirmed MPs who have not been re-elected or those who decided to not put themselves through forward in the upcoming election will have to submit their financial disclosures within 90 days of leaving Parliament. Re-elected MPs will have to submit their disclosures within 60 days from the date on which they complete three years since submitting the last disclosure. MPs elected for the first time will be requested to submit their disclosures to Nazaha within 60 days of becoming MPs. Fines for delays in submitting the final disclosures will be 5,000 Dinars and if the delays are more than 90 days, a jail term of at least three years and a fine of between 3,000 and 30,000 Dinars will be issued to them.

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Kuwait: New SMES Can be Registered

13/11/202013/11/2020
by Benjamin Filaferro

Kuwait’s Public Authority for Manpower has announced it has started receiving new applications to register SMES in line with the registration requirements in the decision for regulating SMEs. Applicants should be Kuwaiti nationals, younger than 45 and dedicate all their time to manage the project. Students and pensioners cannot apply. If there is a foreign partner in the business, their share should not be more than 20% of the total capital.

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Kuwait: Law Firm Organisation Decision Issued

30/10/202030/10/2020
by Benjamin Filaferro

Kuwait’s Commerce and Industry Ministry has issued a Decision which includes a regulation for organising professional law firms. The Trade and Industry Ministry said it was drafted and approved together with the Kuwaiti Lawyers Association. It specifies the form of professional law firms. They can be a solidarity, a closed shareholding or a simple recommendation, or with limited liability. It also specifies the conditions for incorporation. The capital of the professional law firm, whatever form it takes, may not be less than 10,000 Kuwaiti Dinars. Under the new regulations, professional law firms cannot practice unless it is through a licensed partners or shareholder. However, a professional law firm may seek the assistance of licensed lawyers who are registered in the list of practicing lawyers, provided they are subject to the supervision and responsibility of the firm.

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Kuwait: Draft Demographic Imbalance Law Approved

25/10/202025/10/2020
by Benjamin Filaferro

Kuwait’s National Assembly has approved the country’s draft Demographic Imbalance Law. If approved, it will allow the Government to specify the maximum numbers of expatriates in the country. They will have to submit regular demographic imbalance reports to the Assembly. Exemptions for the children and husbands of Kuwaiti women married to foreigners and other GCC citizens have been removed. The penalty provisions in the Law have also been removed as there are stricter penalties in other legislation like the Foreigners Law. It has been referred to the Government to consider further.

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Kuwait: Non-Kuwaiti Education Ministry Employees Cannot Transfer Residency Permit to Civil Sector

17/10/202017/10/2020
by Benjamin Filaferro

Kuwait’s Education Ministry has announced non-Kuwaiti employees cannot transfer their residency permit to the civil sector. There are four exemptions to this. The list of exemptions has been sent by the Ministry to the country’s Manpower Authority. Husbands and children of female Kuwaiti nationals, individuals born in Kuwait, Palestinians who have documents or technical professionals working in the health sector in establishments licensed to operate health services are exempted.

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Kuwait: National Assembly Approves Law to Enable Banks to Help Customers Struggling Financially

09/10/202009/10/2020
by Benjamin Filaferro

Kuwait’s National Assembly has approved a draft law to support and enable local banks to support customers adversely affected by the repercussions of Coronavirus financially. The aim is to reduce the risks of indirect effects as a result of the interlocking of economic sectors. The explanatory note to the draft law mentions incentives will be offered to banks to provide the necessary financing to affected individuals and companies to prevent their temporary lack of liquidity from becoming a prolonged problem.

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Kuwait: Draft Bankruptcy Law Approved

02/10/202002/10/2020
by Benjamin Filaferro

Kuwait’s National Assembly has approved the draft bankruptcy law. It is aimed at reorganising the legal framework for bankruptcy provisions and the rules for debt restructuring. The first chapter dealt with definitions of all the terms contained in the law and the second chapter singles out the general provisions explaining the scope of its application It also contains provisions governing requests for preventive settlement, restructuring, or bankruptcy for debts owed to Government companies, insurance and companies regulated by the Capital Markets Authority. There are also provisions on requests for preventive settlement, restructuring and bankruptcy, as well as how the mechanisms for appointing the trustee, the controller and the inspector will be regulated and the duties and powers of each of them in the event the bankruptcy judge accepts the opening of the restructuring procedures or the declaration of bankruptcy in addition to organising frames and announcements related to the claims, requests and appeals through an electronic data room.

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Kuwait:Boursa Kuwait to List on Premier Market

19/09/202019/09/2020
by Benjamin Filaferro

Boursa Kuwait has announced it will list its shares on the Premier Market. It follows approval from the country’s Capital Markets Authority. They will start trading on 14 September under the BOURSA ticker symbol and will be classified under the Financial Services category. They will be the 174th company on the Exchange and will be the 20th listed company on the Premier Market. Its initial paid-up capital will be approximately 20.1 million Dinars which will be divided into approximately 201 million shares. Around 50% of the company’s shares, or what amounts to around 100 million shares have been offered to Kuwaiti citizens in an initial public offering process which concluded in December 2019 and was oversubscribed by 850%.

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Kuwait: Regulations for Performing Obesity Operations in Government and Private Sectors Approved

14/09/202014/09/2020
by Benjamin Filaferro

Kuwait’s Health Ministry has announced they have approved regulations for performing obesity operations in the Government and private sectors. The patient must be between 18 and 50, with a BMI of 50 or less and classified under the third category or less. This is according to the American Anaesthesia Association classification.