Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 271 of 29 June 2007

Article 1. The following amendments and additions shall be introduced into the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On Regulatory Legal Acts” of 24 March 1998 (Bulletin of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 1998, No. 2-3, Art. 25; 2001, No. 20, Art. 258; 2002, No. 5, Art. 50; 2004, No. 5, Art. 29; No. 13, Art. 74; 2005, No. 17-18, Art. 73; 2006, No. 3, Art. 22; No. 24, Art. 148; 2007, No. 2, Art. 18):

1) In Article 1:

in subparagraph 1), before the word “public” add the words “especially important”;

in subparagraph 5), after the word “homogeneous” add the words “especially important”;

2) Paragraph 3 of Article 3 shall be supplemented with a second part reading as follows:

“The laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan may provide for other forms of derivative regulatory legal acts.”;

3) In Article 3-1:

in the seventeenth subparagraph, after the word “homogeneous” add the words “especially important”;

in subparagraph 16), the words “are adopted for the purpose of regulating homogeneous public relations such as criminal proceedings.” shall be replaced with the words “criminal proceedings;”, and it shall be supplemented with subparagraph 17) reading as follows:

“17) are adopted for the purpose of regulating homogeneous especially important public relations such as the field of healthcare.”;

4) In paragraph 3 of Article 4, the text in the Russian language has been amended; the text in the Kazakh language remains unchanged;

5) In paragraph 2 of Article 5, the words “Entered into force” shall be replaced with the words “Put into effect”;

6) In paragraph 5 of Article 14, the words “and extra-budgetary funds” shall be replaced with the words “funds and grants”;

7) In Article 15:

paragraph 1 shall be supplemented with a second sentence reading as follows:

“Draft regulatory legal acts that provide for a reduction of State revenues or an increase of State expenditures shall be accompanied by financial and economic calculations.”;

paragraph 3 shall be supplemented with a second part reading as follows:

“The comments of a State body on a draft regulatory legal act shall contain proposals for eliminating deficiencies, shall relate directly to matters within its competence, shall be substantiated and complete, and shall be submitted in written form.”;

8) In Article 17:

it shall be supplemented with paragraph 4-1 reading as follows:

“4-1. In the text of regulatory legal acts, it is not permitted to mark paragraphs with hyphens or other symbols, to highlight individual words and phrases, or to underline them.”;

in the second part of paragraph 9, the words “in a regulatory legal act of a higher level or in a previously enacted regulatory legal act of the same level” shall be replaced with the words “in a regulatory legal act of a higher level regulating homogeneous public relations”;

in paragraph 11, the word “major” shall be deleted;

9) Paragraph 2 of Article 18 shall be supplemented with a third sentence reading as follows:

“The text of a regulatory legal act shall not contain provisions that carry no semantic or legal weight.”;

10) In paragraph 2 of Article 21:

subparagraph 5) shall be set out in the following wording:

“5) the opinion of a scientific expert examination and, where available, other expert opinions;”;

in subparagraph 7):

the word “usually,” shall be deleted;

the words “financial and economic calculations for the draft,” shall be replaced with the words “if the draft provides for a reduction of State revenues or an increase of State expenditures, financial and economic calculations for the draft, and also, as a rule,”;

11) In Article 27:

paragraph 3:

after the word “considerable” add the words “(three or more)”;

it shall be supplemented with a second part reading as follows:

“All amendments and additions introduced into a single regulatory legal act shall be set out in one paragraph or subparagraph. All acts in the list of acts subject to amendments and additions shall, as in the list of acts recognized as having lost force, be arranged according to the relationship of their legal force, as well as in chronological order by their date of adoption (issuance).”;

in paragraph 4, after the word “considerable” add the words “(three or more)”;

paragraph 5 shall be supplemented with a second part reading as follows:

“If another regulatory legal act, or a part thereof, that provided for recognizing previously adopted acts as having lost force is itself recognized as having lost force, the previously adopted acts shall not be reinstated.”;

12) In Article 28:

paragraph 4 shall be supplemented with a second and a third part reading as follows:

“When drawing up a structural element of a regulatory legal act in a new wording, the word shall be the unit for determining the volume of its text.

With the exception of an article and a paragraph, when drawing up a structural part of a regulatory legal act in a new wording, the structural element being set out in the new wording shall be the unit for determining the volume of its text.”;

in paragraph 5:

the words “to the content of the text of the act” shall be replaced with the words “to the text of the act”;

the words “of the content of the text of the act” shall be replaced with the words “of the text of the act”;

it shall be supplemented with a second and a third part reading as follows:

“When drawing up a regulatory legal act in a new wording, its structural element shall be the unit for determining the volume.

The requirements of this paragraph shall not apply when considering draft laws submitted to the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan.”;

13) In paragraph 2 of Article 29, the words “in a special form” shall be deleted;

14) In the second part of paragraph 1 of Article 30:

the words “Bulletin and” shall be replaced with the word “Bulletin,”;

after the words “collection of acts” add the words “, the collection of acts of the central executive and other central State bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan and their departments”;

15) In paragraph 1 of Article 33, the words “in periodical printed publications” shall be replaced with the words “officially in the collection of acts of the central executive and other central State bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan and their departments, as well as in other periodical printed publications”;

16) Article 36 shall be supplemented with paragraph 8 reading as follows:

“8. All regulatory legal acts shall, with account taken of the provisions of this Article, indicate the time period for putting them into effect.”;

17) In Article 38:

in the heading, the text in the Russian language has been amended; the text in the Kazakh language remains unchanged;

in paragraph 1:

in its first part, the text in the Russian language has been amended; the text in the Kazakh language remains unchanged;

the second part shall be set out in the following wording:

“Unregistered regulatory legal acts shall have no legal force and, unless the decision of the justice authorities is appealed in the established manner, shall be repealed by the body that issued them.”;

it shall be supplemented with a third part reading as follows:

“The conformity of a regulatory legal act with the criteria established in this paragraph shall be determined by the Ministry of Justice and its territorial bodies.”;

subparagraph 5) of paragraph 2 shall be set out in the following wording:

“5) registration of such an act may be refused if it was adopted in violation of the procedure established by the State registration rules, as well as the procedure for drawing up and coordinating draft regulatory legal acts subject to State registration.”;

in paragraph 4, after the word “acts” add the words “drawing up, coordinating and”;

18) In Article 47:

in paragraph 1:

in the first part, the words “the Ministry of Justice” shall be replaced with the words “the justice authorities”;

in the third part, the words “to the Ministry of Justice” shall be replaced with the words “to the justice authorities”.

Article 2. This Law shall be put into effect from the date of its official publication.

President

of the Republic of Kazakhstan