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LAW
OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN
On access to information
Article 1. Basic definitions used in this Law ...................................................................................1
Article 2. Legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on access to information .............................2
Article 3. Applicability of the present Law .....................................................................................2
Article 4. Basic principles of providing access to information .......................................................2
Article 5. Limitation of the right for access to information.............................................................3
Article 6. Information, access to which cannot be limited ..............................................................3
Article 7. Rights and obligations of information user .....................................................................3
Article 8. Information holder ...........................................................................................................4
Article 9. Rights and obligations of information holder ..................................................................4
Article 10. Means to provide access to information ........................................................................5
Article 11. Providing information upon a request ...........................................................................5
Article 12. Displaying information in offices, occupied by information holders............................7
Article 13. Providing access to the meetings of collegial bodies of state bodies ............................7
Article 14. Reports of heads of central executive bodies, akims and rectors of national higher
educational institutions ....................................................................................................................8
Article 15. Placement of information in mass media ......................................................................8
Article 16. Placement of information on the internet sites ..............................................................8
Article 17. Placement of information on the “electronic government” web portal .......................11
Article 18. Appealing unlawful limitation of the right for access to information .........................12
Article 19. Commission on issues of access to information ..........................................................12
Article 20. Responsibility for violating the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on access to
information ....................................................................................................................................12
Article 21. Order of entering into force of this Law ......................................................................12
This Law sets regulations for public relations created as a result of the exercise of the
constitutional right to freely receive and distribute information by any means not prohibited by
law.
Article 1. Basic definitions used in this Law
The following basic definitions are used in this Law:
1) information – data on persons, objects, facts, events and processes, which is received or
created by an information holder, recorded on any device and which possesses prerequisites that
allow to identify such data;
2) access to information – the right to freely receive and distribute information by any means
not prohibited by law, which is guaranteed by the state and protected by the Constitution and the
laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
3) an information user – an individual or a legal entity, requesting and (or) using
information;
4) internet portal of open budgets – a component of an “electronic government” web portal,
facilitating a placement of budgetary reports, consolidated financial reports, results of the state
audit and financial control, and also public discussion of the budgetary programs and reports
about the implementation of the budgetary programs;