of their receipt.
3. Impeding of legal processional activity of a journalist shall entail
responsibility established by the Laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Footnote. Article 25 as amended by the Laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated
03.05.2001 No. 181; dated 18.01.2012 No. 546-IV (shall be enforced upon expiry of thirty
calendar days after its first official publication).
Article 26. Cases of release from responsibility for distribution of details
that do not reflect reality
Chief editor (editor), and equally a journalist shall not bear responsibility for
distribution of details in mass media that do not reflect reality:
1) if these details contained in official communications and documents;
2) if they are received from advertisement and information agencies or press
service of state bodies;
3) if they are literal reproduction of formal address of the deputies of
representative bodies, officials of state bodies, organizations and citizens;
4) if they were contained in author performances, going on the air without
preliminary recording, or in texts that shall not be subject to editing in accordance
with this Law;
5) if these details contained in compulsory communications in accordance with
Article 18 of this Law.
Footnote. Article 26 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 3
May 2001 No. 181.
The President
of the Republic of Kazakhstan
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