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Connecting the Electric Current (to Residential and Commercial Estates)

Service Description
Eligibility or Criteria
Required Documents
Procedures
Fees
Downloadable Forms

Service Description

This service allows the connection of the electric current to residential and commercial real estates

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Eligibility or Criteria

All construction works must be finished in conformity to the laws and regulations, and the issued license

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Required Documents

Request from the owner

Safety certificate from the Public Safety Department

Statistics certificate from the Ministry of Planning

Certificate from the Ministry of Public Works approving the utility extensions

Certificate from the supervising engineering office concerning the end of supervision work, in case an office is assigned to supervise the implementation phase

Approved electricity plan from the Ministry of Electricity and Water

Record on boundary handover issued by the Survey Department

Declaration and undertaking form from the owner and the contractor

Document on boundary handover from the Municipality, in case the implementation was made under the Municipality supervision

Approval from Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (Prevention Department)

Undertaking form from the owner, in case no sidewalk stones are available

Certificate for redefining the boundaries from the Survey Department

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Procedures

Visit the Municipality governorate branch concerned with the service - Scrutiny and Follow-up Engineering Department - Construction Inspection - Transaction Section and submit the required documents

Go to the Municipality Center Archive in the Secretary Section of the department concerned with the service to extract the technical file

Go to the supervisors' controller chamber to set a date for examining the real estate and generating the technical report. After the deadline specified, the area engineers' chamber is checked to prepare a letter for connecting the electric current, after confirming that no violations are recorded on the real estate

Go to the printing chamber to print the electric current connection letter

Go to the area engineers' chamber and the chamber of the Municipality Center officer to have the letter approved

Go to the secretary chamber at the department concerned with the service to register the file with the electricity letter enclosed and to set an appointment for checking the main department

Go to the Outcoming and Incoming Section of the main department, then check the engineers of the Technical Section at the chamber no. 7

Go to the department manager office concerned with the service for the final approval of the electric current connection letter

Go to the General Registery Department at the headquarters of Kuwait Municipality

Pay the fees due

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Fees

(0) KD	Variable fees
(10) KD	Fixed fees: For residential real estate
(50) KD	Fixed fees: For residential real estate with commercial facade

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Downloadable Forms

Electric Current Connection Application Form
Declaration and Undertaking Form from the Owner and the Contractor