The Council of Ministers has submitted to His Highness the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah a draft decree-law amending sure provisions of Legislation No. 21 of 2015 on the rights of the kid.
The draft notes that, after reviewing the Structure, the Amiri Order issued on 2 Dhu al-Qi’dah 1445 AH (equivalent to Might 10, 2024 AD), Amiri Decree No. 15 of 1959 regarding the Kuwaiti Nationality Legislation and its amendments, Legislation No. 36 of 1969 regulating the registration of births and deaths (as amended by Decree-Legislation No. 107 of 2024), and Legislation No. 21 of 2015 concerning little one rights, and based mostly on the proposal of the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Inside and the approval of the Council of Ministers, the next decree-law has been issued:
Article One: Two new articles, numbered (17 bis) and (81 bis), shall be added to Legislation No. 21 of 2015 as follows:
Article (17 bis): Each Kuwaiti father or authorized guardian should apply to register the new child underneath the daddy’s nationality file, attaching the mandatory paperwork, inside 60 days of start.
Article (81 bis): Anybody who violates Article (17 bis) shall be topic to a high quality of not lower than KD 2,000 and less than KD 3,000. A settlement could also be accepted after the expiry of the interval referred to in Article (17 bis) by paying KD 100 plus 5 dinars for every day of delay, offered the whole doesn’t exceed KD 2,000.
The settlement is paid to the competent authority on the Ministry of Inside, and as soon as settled, the prison case and all its results shall be terminated.
The explanatory memorandum for the draft regulation amending sure provisions of Legislation No. 21 of 2015 concerning the rights of the kid said the next: The State has assured the rights of the kid underneath Legislation No. 21 of 2015 by offering all mandatory authorized and social protections.
Out of the State’s dedication to safeguarding these rights—notably the preservation of nationwide identification—and in gentle of the negligence of some guardians in acquiring official paperwork for the kid, particularly the failure so as to add the kid to the daddy’s nationality file, it grew to become essential to introduce laws obligating the authorized guardian to register the new child within the nationality file, as set forth in Article (17 bis). Article (81 bis) additional establishes a punitive penalty for anybody who violates this obligation.