The Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan «On Administrative Infractions» (July 5, 2014 № 235-V, has been amended by the 2017)

The Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan
«On Administrative Infractions»
(July 5, 2014 № 235-V, has been amended by the 2017)

Unofficial translation

Footnote: Through the whole text of the Code:

the words «tax body», «tax bodies», «in a tax body», «body of tax service», «bodies of tax service» are substituted by the words «state revenues body», «state revenues bodies», «in the state revenues body»; the words «customs body», «customs bodies» are substituted by the words «state revenues body», «state revenues bodies» in accordance with the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 29.12.2014 No. 272-V (shall be enforced from 01.01.2015)

SECTION 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Chapter 1. LEGISLATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE INFRACTIONS

Article 1. Legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on administrative infractions

1. Legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on administrative infractions consists of this Code.

2. This Code is based on the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan, generally accepted principles and rules of international law.

3. International contractual and other obligations of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as regulatory resolutions of the Constitutional Council and Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan regulating administrative delictual legal relations that are the component part of the legislation on administrative infractions.

4. International treaties ratified by the Republic of Kazakhstan shall have a priority before this Code and shall be applied directly, except for the cases when it follows from the international treaty that for its application the issuance of the law is required. If international treaty ratified by the Republic of Kazakhstan establishes other rules than those provided by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on administrative infractions, the rules of the international treaty shall be applied.

Article 2. Basis for administrative liability

Basis for administrative liability is commission of the act containing all signs of component elements of the infraction provided in the Special part of this Code.

Article 3. Force of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on liability for administrative infractions in space

1. The person that committed administrative infraction in a territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan shall be subject to liability according to this Code.

2. Administrative infraction committed in a territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan shall be recognized as the act that was commenced or continued or was completed in a territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Force of this Code shall also apply to administrative infractions committed in a continental shelve and in exclusive economic zone of the Republic of Kazakhstan.