Amending Provisions of the Penal Code (Kuwait, Law No. 31, 1970) in English

Law No. 31 of 1970 amends provisions of the Kuwaiti Penal Code, adding and revising offences a decade after the 1960 code was enacted — including provisions concerning state security and public officials that are cited to this day. Reading the code without its major amendments gives a false picture, and this is one of the majors.

Practitioners working with Kuwaiti criminal law pair this text with Law No. 16 of 1960; researchers tracing how Kuwait's criminal legislation hardened in the 1970s read it in its own right.