"ملف ١/٧ I المرسوم الملكي البريطاني للكويت (السلطة القضائية على الأجانب)" [و‎‎١‎٥‎٠] (٣٩٤/٢٩٩)

71. Whenever an Acting Political Agent or Acting Judicial
Assistant has commenced the hearing of any cause or matter,
civil or criminal, he may, unless the Political Resident otherwise
directs, continue and complete the hearing and determination
thereof, notwithstanding that his authority to act as Political
Agent or Judicial Assistant has otherwise ceased by reason of the
expiration of the time for which he was appointed to act or by
reason of the happening of any event by which his authority is
determined.
72. —(1) If an officer of the Court, employed to execute a
decree or order, loses, by neglect or omission, the opportunity of
executing it, then, on complaint of the person aggrieved and
proof of the fact alleged, the Court may, if it thinks fit, order the
officer to pay the damages sustained by the person complaining,
or part thereof.
(2) The order may be enforced as an order directing payment
of money.
73. —(1) If a clerk or officer of the Court, a-cting under pre
tence of the process or authority of the Court, is charged with
extortion, or with not paying over money duly levied, or with
other misconduct, the Court may, if it thinks fit, enquire into the
charge in a summary way, and may for that purpose summon and
enforce the attendance of all necessary persons as in a suit, and
may make such order for the repayment of any money extorted,
or for the payment over of any money levied, and for payment of
such damages and costs as the Court thinks fit.
(2) The Court may also, if it thinks fit, on the same enquiry
impose on the clerk or officer such fine, not exceeding 50 rupees
for each offence, as the Court thinks fit.
(3) A clerk or officer punished under this article shall not,
without the leave of the Court, be liable to a civil suit in respect
of the same matter; and any such suit, if already or afterwards
begun, may be stayed by the Court in such manner and on such
terms as the Court thinks fit.
(4) Nothing in this article shall be deemed to prevent any
person from being prosecuted under any other British or British
Indian law for any act or omission punishable under this article,
or from being liable under that other law to any other or higher
punishment or penalty than that provided by this article :
Provided that no person shall be punished twice for the same
offence.
74. The Political Resident or the Political Agent may exercise
any power conferred on any Justices of the Peace within His
Majesty’s Dominions by any Act of Parliament, for the time
being in force, regulating merchant seamen or the mercantile
marine.
75. Where under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, anything
is authorised to be done by, to, or before a consular officer, such
thing may be done in any place in Kuwait by, to, or before the
Political Resident or the Political Agent.