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KWT-2016-L-104052
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Title_of_text
Law No. 1 of 2016 Promulgating the Company Law.
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
Kuwait
Subjects (Classification)
General provisions; Economic and social policy
Adopted on (Date of text)
2016-02-01
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Law, Act
Second Region
Abstract/Citation
Part I: General Provisions.
Part II: General Partnership Company.
Part III: Limited Partnership Company.
Part IV: Partnership Limited by Shares.
Part V: Joint Venture Company.
Part VI: Professional Company.
Part VII: Single Person Company.
Part VIII: Limited Liability Company.
Part IX: Public Shareholding Company.
Part X: Closed Shareholding Company.
Part XI: Holding Company.
Part XII: Transformation, Merger, Division and Termination of Companies.
Part XIII: Supervision, Inspection and Penalties.
The ministers, each in their respective capacity, shall implement this law, which shall become effective as of 26 November 2012, with the exception of the regulation of Chapter 2 of Section 13, which shall be come effective as of the date as issuance.
Basic Text region
Basic text(s)
1990 (KWT-1990-L-47028)
Decree Law No. 23 of 1990: Regulation of the Judiciary Law.
Basic text(s)
2010-02-10 (KWT-2010-L-83616)
Law No. 6/2010 concerning Labour in the Private Sector.
Basic text(s)
1960 (KWT-1960-L-97527)
Law No. 16 of 1960, the Penal Code.
Basic text(s)
2013-06-16 (KWT-2013-L-98362)
Law No. 116 of 2013 on Promoting Direct Investment in the State of Kuwait.
Basic text(s)
2014-08-17 (KWT-2014-L-99819)
Law No. 116 of 2014 on Public Private Partnerships.
Amending Text region
Amending text(s)
2018-07-22 (KWT-2018-L-108390)
Law No. 83 of 2018 amending Law No. 1 of 2016 on Promulgating the Company Law.
Electronic region
Electronic source title
Legislation online in Arabic
Author
Reqaba
Country
State of Kuwait
URL
http://www.reqaba.com
Page range
p.2
File
mo1273.pdf (PDF in Arabic)