KuwaitCITRA Law, Authority's sanctions on licensees
Law No. 37 of 2014 Establishing the Communications and Information Technology Regulatory Authority as amended by Law No. 98 of 2015, art. 64
In force.
An enforcement supervision rule binding private bodies.
- Enforcement body
- Communications and Information Technology Regulatory Authority (CITRA)
- Obligation class
- Licensing
What it requires
- Remove a violation within 30 days of CITRA's warning, and comply with the measures CITRA orders for a violation of the Law or of the regulations or decisions issued under it, which include suspension of the licence for three months, a fine of up to one million Kuwaiti dinars for each violation and cancellation of the licence (Article 64).
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Penalty structure
Article 64 allows a financial fine of up to one million Kuwaiti dinars for each violation, doubled on repetition or twice the value of the damage, whichever is greater.
- Rule
- Per violation only
- As of
- Currency
- KWD
- Per violation unit
- Violation
- Per violation amount
- 1,000,000
What this law does
Under Article 64 of Law No. 37 of 2014, CITRA may take any of the listed measures, in proportion to the size of the violation, where a violation of the Law or of the regulations or decisions issued under it is established. One measure is suspension of the licence granted to the licensee for three months. Another measure is a financial fine of up to one million Kuwaiti dinars for each violation. The fine is doubled on repetition, or the violator pays twice the value of the damage, whichever is greater.
When LexLint raises it
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