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Pursuant to the Article 25 of the Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Administrative Offenses (hereinafter - Code), an administrative offense is an unlawful, wrongful (intentional or careless) action or inaction of an individual or illegal action or inaction of a legal entity for which this Code provides for administrative responsibility.
Article 41 of the Code
The following administrative penalties can be imposed for administrative violations:
Article 42. Primary and provisional measures of administrative penalties
- A notice, an administrative fine, an administrative arrest can only be applied as major administrative penalties.
- Deprivation of a special right, withdrawal of a permit or its termination, as well as exclusion from the register, termination or prohibition of activity or its certain types, as well as administrative expulsion from the Republic of Kazakhstan of foreigners or stateless persons can be applied both as major or additional administrative penalties.
- Confiscation, forced demolition of an illegally erected structure or structure under construction can only be applied as an additional administrative penalty.
Article 43. Notification
1. A notice involves the official provision by a court, a body (official) authorized to impose an administrative penalty of a negative assessment of the violation and a warning to an individual or legal entity about the inadmissibility of unlawful conduct. A notice is issued in writing.
2. In the absence of the circumstances provided for by Article 57 and the note to Article 366 of this Code, a court (judge), body (official) imposing an administrative penalty shall be obliged to apply a notice provided for by the relevant article of the Special Part of the Code.
Article 44. Administrative fine
1. An administrative fine (hereinafter: fine) is a monetary penalty imposed for an administrative violation in cases and within the limits provided for in the Articles of the Special Part of the section, in a sum corresponding to a certain amount of the monthly calculation index established in accordance with the applicable law at the time of initiation of administrative violation case.
In the cases provided for in the Articles of the Special Part of the section, sum of a fine is calculated as a percentage from:
1) amount of damage caused to the environment;
2) amount of an unfulfilled or improperly fulfilled tax obligation;
3) amounts of unpaid (not listed), untimely and (or) incompletely paid (listed) social security contributions;
4) amounts of non-transferred, untimely and (or) incompletely calculated, withheld (accrued) and (or) paid (transferred) mandatory pension contributions and mandatory professional pension contributions;
5) amount of the excisable goods obtained in the result of illegal business;
6) amount not accounted for in accordance with the requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on accounting and financial reporting or improperly accounted for;
7) amount of a transaction (operation) made (conducted) in violation of the financial legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
8) amount of income (revenue) received as a result of monopolistic activities or violation of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the electric power industry, on natural monopolies, legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan that regulate the activities of the financial market and financial organizations;
9) cost of energy resources used in excess of the approved standards for the period in which a violation occurred, but for no more than one year;
10) amounts of non-credited national and foreign currency;
11) amounts of unpaid (unlisted), untimely and (or) incompletely paid (listed) deductions and (or) contributions for compulsory social health insurance.
If, in the provisions of the Special Part of the section, an amount of fine is calculated as a percentage from the amount of transaction carried out in violation of the norms of the financial legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and such a transaction is carried out in foreign currency, an amount of fine is recalculated in tenge at the official rate established by the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan at the time of drawing up an act on an administrative violation.
An amount of fine imposed on an individual cannot exceed two hundred monthly calculation indices.
An amount of fine imposed on an official, a private notary, a private bailiff, a lawyer, small businesses, as well as non-profit organizations may not exceed seven hundred and fifty monthly calculation indices.
An amount of fine imposed on medium businesses cannot exceed one thousand monthly calculation indices.
An amount of fine imposed on large businesses cannot exceed two thousand monthly calculation indices.
3. A fine calculated in accordance with the second paragraph of the first part of this article may be established in amounts exceeding fines specified in this article or be less than the established amounts.
4. A fine is collected as income to the state budget in the manner prescribed by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Article 45. Confiscation of a subject being a tool or subject of committing administrative infraction, as well as property received due to commission of administrative infraction
1. Confiscation of an object that was an instrument or subject of an administrative violation, as well as property received as a result of an administrative violation involves their compulsory gratuitous transfer into state ownership in the manner prescribed by law.
Removal of an item subject to return to its owner from an illegal possession of a person who has committed an administrative violation or an item withdrawn from circulation is not deemed to be confiscation. An item withdrawn from circulation is subject to transfer to state ownership or destruction.
2. Only an item that is the property of an offender is subject to confiscation, unless otherwise provided by the Special Part of the Code.
3. Confiscation of hunting weapons, ammunition thereto and other permitted hunting and fishing gear cannot be applied to individuals for whom hunting (fishing) is the main legal source of income.
4. Confiscation is applied by a judge and may be imposed in cases when it is provided for by the relevant article of the Special Part of the section as an administrative penalty.
Article 46. Deprivation of a special right
1. Deprivation of a special right granted to a certain person is applied by a judge.
2.Term of special right deprivation cannot be less than one month and more than two years.
3.Deprivation term for the right to drive vehicles may not be less than six months and more than ten years.
4. Deprivation of the right to drive vehicles cannot be applied to persons who use these vehicles in connection with disability, except for cases of driving a vehicle in a state of intoxication or evading a process of being examined for a state of intoxication, as well as leaving by these persons of a road traffic accident in which they were participants in violation of the established rules.
5. Deprivation of the right to go hunting, fishing, storing and carrying hunting weapons, ammunition thereto and fishing gear cannot be applied to persons for whom hunting (fishing) is the main legal source of income with the exception to systematic violation of the procedure for exercising the right.
Article 47. Deprivation of permission or suspension of its validity, as well as exclusion from register
1. Withdrawal of a permit or its termination is applied for an administrative violation committed while carrying out activities or performing certain actions (operations) provided for by a permit.
1-1. Withdrawal of a permit or its termination is imposed by a judge, an authorized body (official), taking into account the provisions of parts three, four, fifth, sixth and 6-1 of the Article.
2. The period of permit withdrawal may not be less than one and more than six months.
3. Withdrawal or termination of a permit to carry out activities in the financial sector and activities related to the concentration of financial resources, with the exception of withdrawal of a credit bureau's permit, shall be carried out by an authorized body for regulation, control and supervision of the financial market and financial organizations and the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan within their competence for reasons and in the manner established by the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
4. Exclusion from the register is carried out by an authorized body in the field of customs for reasons and in the manner established by the customs legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and by an authorized body in the field of transport and communications for reasons and in the manner established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on road traffic.
5. Exclusion from the register of organizations carrying out microfinance activities is carried out by an authorized body for regulation, control and supervision of the financial market and financial organizations for reasons and in the manner established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on microfinance activities.
6. Exclusion from the register of debt collection agencies is carried out by an authorized body for regulation, control and supervision of the financial market and financial organizations for reasons and in the manner established by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Debt Collection Activities".
6-1. Exclusion from the register of payment institutions is carried out by the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan for reasons and in the manner established by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Payments and Payment Systems".
7. In the event if an activity during execution of which an administrative violation was committed is a subtype of a licensed type of activity, an administrative penalty in the form of withdrawal or termination of a permit applies only to a specific subtype of a licensed type of activity.
Note. For the purposes of the Code, withdrawal of a permit and its termination involves the withdrawal of a license to carry out a licensed type of activity or its subtype, a special permit, a qualification certificate, or termination of its action for a certain type or subtype of activity, or execution of a certain action, as well as another permit document provided for by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Permits and Notifications".
Article 48. Suspension or prohibition of activity or its separate types
1. Termination or prohibition of an activity or its certain types involve temporary cessation of activity execution by individuals and (or) legal entities or prohibition of activity, including branches, representative offices, structural divisions of a legal entity, production sites, as well as operation of units, buildings and structures, carrying out certain types of activities (works), rendering services.
2. If for the execution of an administrative violation it is possible to impose a penalty in the form of termination or prohibition of activity then termination or prohibition of an activity or its certain types is carried out through judicial process or by a body (official) authorized to consider administrative violation cases. Consideration of such cases is carried out within ten days.
3. Termination of activity or its individual types is imposed for up to three months.
4. Prior to consideration of the case, a security measure in the form of termination or prohibition of activity or its individual types may be applied to an individual or legal entity in the manner prescribed by Article 801 of this Code. In this case, the period of termination or prohibition of the activity or its individual types shall be included in the period for the termination or prohibition of the activity or its individual types, if this administrative penalty is applied during the consideration of the case.
Article 49. Compulsory demolition of the built structure or the structure under construction on illegal basis
Forced demolition of an illegally erected structure or structure under construction is imposed by a judge in the cases provided for by the Articles of the Special Part of the section.
Article 50. Administrative arrest
1. Administrative arrest is imposed for up to thirty days, while for violation of the requirements of the emergency situation is amounts up to forty-five days. Administrative arrest is imposed by a judge in exceptional cases within the limits provided for in the Articles of the Special Part of this section.
2. Administrative arrest cannot be applied to pregnant women and women with children under the age of fourteen, persons under the age of eighteen, the disabled of 1st and 2nd groups, as well as to women over the age of fifty-eight, men over sixty-three years old and men who raise children under the age of fourteen alone.
3. An administrative detention term is included into the administrative arrest term.
Article 51. Administrative expulsion of foreign persons or stateless persons beyond the borders of the Republic of Kazakhstan
1. Administrative expulsion from the Republic of Kazakhstan of foreigners or stateless persons is applied by a judge as a measure of administrative penalty in the manner and for the reasons provided for by the Special Part of the Code.
The provisions of this part do not apply to cases of foreigners or stateless persons expulsion, which are carried out in the manner prescribed by the civil procedure legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
2. If, in the course of administrative proceedings, a person against whom a measure of administrative penalty in the form of administrative expulsion from the Republic of Kazakhstan may be applied, informs about an act committed against him/her, recognized in accordance with the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan as a grave or especially grave crime, then consideration of a case on an administrative violation in respect of this person is postponed until a decision is made on such a message or application in the manner prescribed by Article 179 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Article 56. Circumstances mitigating liability for an administrative offense
Article 57. Circumstances aggravating liability for an administrative offense
Article 62. Exemption from administrative liability due to expiration of limitation period
Chapter 9. ADMINISTRATIVE LIABILITY OF THE UNDER-AGE
Article 65. Administrative liability of the under-age
Article 66. Aspects of administrative penalties imposition to the under-age
Chapter 38. PARTICIPANTS IN THE PROCEEDINGS ON ADMINISTRATIVE OFFENSES, THEIR RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS
Article 744. A person in respect of whom an administrative offense proceedings are being conducted
Chapter 40. ADOPTION OF MEASURES TO ENSURE THE PROCEEDINGS IN ADMINISTRATIVE OFFENSE CASES
Article 785. Measures to ensure the proceedings in administrative offense cases
Chapter 41. INITIATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFENSE CASES
Article 802. Reasons and grounds for initiating an administrative offense case
Chapter 42. CURTAILED PROCEEDINGS IN AN ADMINISTRATIVE OFFENSE CASE
Article 810. The grounds for curtailed proceedings in an administrative offense case are as follows
Article 811. The procedure for curtailed proceedings in case of an administrative offense