of September 7, 2017 No. ZRU-443
About distribution of legal information and ensuring access to it
Accepted by Legislative house on August 15, 2017
Approved by the Senate on August 24, 2017
The purpose of this Law is regulation of the relations in the field of distribution of legal information and ensuring access to it.
The legislation on distribution of legal information and ensuring access to it consists of this Law and other acts of the legislation.
If the international treaty of the Republic of Uzbekistan establishes other rules, than those which are stipulated by the legislation the Republic of Uzbekistan about distribution of legal information and ensuring access to it then are applied rules of the international treaty.
In this Law the following basic concepts are applied:
legal information - texts of regulatory legal acts, official interpretation to them, explanations about procedure for application of regulatory legal acts, solutions of the Constitutional court of the Republic of Uzbekistan, resolutions of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan concerning application of the legislation, and also materials of generalization of court practice;
access to legal information - possibility of free receipt of legal information and its use;
distribution of legal information - the actions directed to acquaintance of the indefinite group of people with legal information.
The basic principles of distribution of legal information and ensuring access to it are publicity, openness, timeliness of distribution of legal information and ensuring access to it, freedom of search and receipt of legal information.
The state guarantees access to legal information.
Citizens have rights to freely look for, receive and extend legal information.
State bodies, other organizations and officials shall provide in accordance with the established procedure to everyone access to legal information.
Access to legal information is limited if this information is carried in accordance with the established procedure to the data constituting the state secrets or other secret protected by the law.
The Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan within the powers:
extends in accordance with the established procedure legal information, including by mailing, publication of regulatory legal acts, placement them on the official website;
sends to the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan texts of resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan and if necessary information and analytical materials on them for official publication and bringing to contractors;
provides development and realization of the necessary actions directed to timely distribution of legal information and ensuring access to it;
exercises control of execution of the legislation on distribution of legal information and ensuring access to it;
approves the list of state bodies and organizations for obligatory mailing of regulatory legal acts;
performs international cooperation in the field of distribution of legal information and ensuring access to it.
The Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan can perform also other powers according to the legislation.
The ministries, the state committees and departments within the powers:
extend in accordance with the established procedure legal information, including by mailing, publication of regulatory legal acts, placement them on the official websites;
send to the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan texts of the regulatory legal acts adopted by them and if necessary information and analytical materials on them for mailing and official publication;
provide timely bringing to the structural and territorial subdivisions of texts of the regulatory legal acts which arrived in central office;
exercise control of execution of the legislation on distribution of legal information and ensuring access to it in the structural and territorial subdivisions;
will organize the necessary work on explanation of essence and value of the regulations containing in texts of regulatory legal acts, directed to increase in legal consciousness, legal culture in society and legality strengthening;
create funds of legal information for the sphere of the activities;
keep in accordance with the established procedure the systematized account of regulatory legal acts;
on requests of physical persons and legal entities provide them legal information on the sphere of the activities;
in accordance with the established procedure make explanations about procedure for application of regulatory legal acts.
The ministries, the state committees and departments can perform also other powers according to the legislation.
The Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan is specially authorized state body in the field of distribution of legal information and ensuring access to it.
The Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan within the powers:
receives from state bodies and the organizations texts of the regulatory legal acts adopted by them and if necessary information and analytical materials on them (the explanatory note with statement of the concept of the regulatory legal act, the comparative table with explanation of changes and amendments, etc.) on paper and electronically;
provides mailing of texts of regulatory legal acts and in need of the corresponding information and analytical materials to all state bodies and the organizations electronically for the list determined by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
performs official publication of regulatory legal acts;
approves procedure for conducting the systematized accounting of regulatory legal acts;
performs the state accounting of regulatory legal acts and work on systematization of the legislation;
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