Know Your Rights As An Expat in Kuwait From Kuwaitiful.com

Reposted from Kuwaitiful.com scroll down for Parts 1&2

Know Your Rights Around Kuwait (English Version) – Part 3

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Nov 26 2014

Those that have been following the blog know I’ve posted about an account that helps people by explaining law related issues and what you can do to protect themselves. They do it in Arabic and I translate some of their videos so that non-Arabic speakers can benefit, here’s the latest batch.

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  • When you receive a check, you have 4 months to go to a bank and cash in the check from the day the check was issued. If the issuer of the check had insufficient funds in his bank account, you can submit a complaint to the prosecution (you have 4 months to do so, else your submission will be void).
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  • You have the right to pay your rent fees of where you reside anytime before the 20th of that same month. If you pass the 20th and haven’t paid rent yet the owner has the right to file for your departure. If you pay before the 20th of the month and the owner refuses to accept your payment, you should file a complaint to the government so that he wouldn’t force you to leave the apartment for good on the basis of not paying your rent fees.
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  • Having a weapon without an official licence can get you jail time of 5 years. Even just having ammunition of a weapon without an official licence will get you in jail. I say having instead of owning because just having a weapon with you will get you prosecuted, you don’t need to own it.
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  • If someone physically attacked you (either male or female), you have the right to attack back to defend yourself. Part of self-defense is not over-exaggerating, if someone pushes you for example you cannot go and stab him on the basis of self-defense. If you do so, that will get you prosecuted.
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  • If you beat someone up and that person dies as a result of his/her wounds but it was proven you did not have the intention of killing that person, you will face 10 years of jail time.
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  • Sometimes you rent a place and find something is damaged, it can be in the AC, Elevator etc (something leaking for example). The owner must pay for fixing what was damaged, if the owner refuses to pay you can take permission from the government to fix it and have him pay for it.
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  • If you own a house and you’re renting part of it while one of the people you’re renting to is noisy and disrupts other neighbors. You can then as the owner of the house file a submission to force him to leave for good. You will need in this situation to have witnesses and they have to be neighbors of that apartment.

For those that missed it:

Know Your Rights Around Kuwait Part 1

Know Your Rights Around Kuwait Part 2

Note: I am not a legal adviser and won’t be able to answer any of your legal-related questions.