1) legality;
2) openness and transparency of the activity of information holders;
3) truthfulness and completeness;
4) relevance and timeliness;
5) equal access to information;
6) nondisclosure of state secrets and other types of secrets protected by law;
7) protection of private life, personal and family secrets;
8) respect for rights and legal interests of individuals and legal entities.
Article 5. Limitation of the right for access to information
Right for access to information may be limited only by laws and only to the extent as
necessary in order to protect constitutional and public order, human rights and freedoms, health
and human morals.
Article 6. Information, access to which cannot be limited
Access to the following types of information cannot be limited; information about:
1) emergency situations and catastrophes, endangering security and health of citizens and
their consequences, and also about natural disasters, their official forecasts and results;
2) status of health care system, sanitary conditions, demography, migration, education,
culture, social protection, economy, agriculture, and levels of criminality;
3) facts about committed acts of terrorism;
4) ecological situation, fire security, sanitary-epidemiological and radiation environment,
and food security;
5) privileges, compensations and benefits provided by the state to individuals and legal
entities;
6) violations of human rights and freedoms;
7) size of the gold and monetary reserve of the National Bank of the Republic of
Kazakhstan;
8) texts of legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan, except for legislative acts
containing state secrets and other types of secrets protected by law, and also draft laws;
9) formation and spending funds from republican and local budgets, except for information
containing state secrets;
10) control of spending funds from republican and local budgets, except for information
containing state secrets;
11) facts of violations committed by information holders and their officials;
12) mass repressions based on political, social and other motives, including information
from archives, except for information related to state secrets of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Article 7. Rights and obligations of information user
1. Information user has the right to:
1) receive and distribute information through any means possible not prohibited by law;
2) make a request to receive information;
3) check truthfulness and completeness of information being received;
4) call back the request;
5) receive information without an obligation to explain the necessity;