Salary Cap Compliance On Driving Licences Mandated

The Ministry of Interior has asked all General Traffic Departments in the six governorates that there is a need to scrutinize driving licences which were issued after the GTD issued a decision making certain terms and conditions mandatory, including the salary cap which was raised from 400 to 600 dinars, the applicants to be university graduates and must have been in the country for at least two years, reports Al- Anba daily.

The source said this is to ensure that the driving licences were issued only to those who met the conditions. However, there were some exceptions to the rule.

A security source said instructions have been given to withdraw the licence if it is discovered the applicant did not meet the conditions taking into consideration the segments that were excluded from the salary cap and qualification.

The source pointed out the scrutiny will center on the licences signed by the former Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior for Traffic Affairs Major-General Fahd Al-Shuwea noting those who do not meet the conditions will lose their licences. The source said the instructions have become effective and the traffic departments have refused to renew a number of these licences.

The sources pointed out this decision was taken after information reached the authorities that thousands of undeserving people hold driving licences in violation of the ministerial decision.

The source pointed out that the driving licences issued before 2013 will not be reviewed in the event of renewal and will only provide an update of the data and the validity of the licence shall be linked to the validity of the residence.

Categories excluded from the conditions salary cap and at least two-year residence in the country include judges, prosecutors, advisers and experts; faculty members in universities and applied institutes; journalists and media men; doctors, pharmacists and engineers; teachers and social workers; researchers with all their names, legal persons, translators, librarians and imams working in government institutions; and sports trainers working in sports federations and clubs in government institutions.

Those excluded also include housewives who have children and whose husbands already hold driving licenses; members of diplomatic corps; professional sport clubs’ players, drivers; company representatives (mandoubs); passport and ministry of social affairs and labor representatives who already hold valid driving licences from their respective countries; judges; members of the public prosecution; chancellors, experts, university and PAAET teaching staff members; journalists and members of the media, private drivers who have been working for a minimum five years for the same sponsor (provided they change their profession to ‘driver’) specialized technicians in the oil sector, nurses, physiotherapists and other medical technicians; pilots, captains and their assistants and washers of dead bodies.

The Ministry of Interior said it would start receiving applications for setting dates for driving tests only online as of Sunday, April 28. Traditional applications for the tests has been terminated at all divisions of the General Traffic Dept countrywide, the Ministry’s Public Relations and Security Media Dept said in a statement on Thursday. Applicants for driving licences are welladvised to visit the Ministry’s website WWW.MOI.GOV.KW, it added

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