Kuwait Times, Wednesday, Sep 9, 2020 | Muharram 21, 1442
Tenants can’t be evicted during lockdown
Kuwait:
A decree was issued amending some provisions of law number 35/1978
pertaining real estate rent, adding a new clause to section 1 of article 20,
stating that: “Tenants will not be evicted in any case if they fail to pay the
rent during a lockdown declared by the Cabinet of all public facilities. The
court will later decide how to pay the overdue rent as per each case’s
circumstances,” Al-Anbaa reported quoting legal sources.
The sources added that a new comprehensive court department will be established
for all rent litigations and that the lockdown period will be excluded from the
grace periods given by law, which will be calculated from the day set by the
Cabinet to resume normal life activities.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the comprehensive court Adel Boresli issued a decision
cancelling all rent departments in all courts including comprehensive and
partial ones and establishing new departments at the comprehensive court that
will start hearings from 11 am.
Accordingly, all current rent cases will be referred to the new departments
following the already-set hearing schedule as much as possible. The amendments
were issued in law number 15/2020, which is effective from March 12, 2020,
meaning that it applies to cases that happened during the lockdown.