LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

of June 29, 2021 No. 57-VII ZRK

About the state courier communication

This Law governs the public relations connected with implementation by the public courier service of the Republic of Kazakhstan (further - the public courier service) activities in the field of provision of services of the state courier communication, determines legal and organizational basis of such activities, and also social guarantees to the staff of the public courier service and members of their families.

Chapter 1. General provisions

Article 1. The basic concepts used in this Law

In this Law the following basic concepts are used:

1) unclassified departures - the departures having restrictive marks "For office use", "Governmental", "Office", "Confidentially", "Valuable";

2) confidential departures - the departures having security classifications of "Special importance", "Top secret" and "Confidentially";

3) the state courier communication - the government express communication providing acceptance, collection, processing, accumulating, armed security forces, safety, maintenance, transportation and delivery of correspondence;

4) services of the state courier communication - activities for acceptance, collection, processing, accumulating, implementation of armed security forces, ensuring safety, maintenance, transportation and delivery of correspondence;

5) authorized body - the state body performing functions of authorized body concerning the public courier service;

6) courier route - established procedure of following of the employee of the public courier service for transportation and delivery of correspondence on interstate (long-distance) and city routes;

7) correspondence - the confidential and unclassified departures (packets, post-packets, sending, packs, hardware) delivered to the addressee.

Article 2. Assignment of the public courier service

1. The public courier service is intended for providing state bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan with the state courier communication and other organizations according to this Law with protection of the data constituting the state secrets.

Correspondence of the officials and state bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan determined by article 3 of this Law is inviolable and is not subject to examination and detention, except the cases provided by the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The single system of the state courier communication is formed by the public courier service and its branches.

The public courier service is legal entity in form of business of republican public institution, has the valid name, seals with the image of the State Emblem of the Republic of Kazakhstan, stamps, forms of the established sample in the Kazakh and Russian languages, the character, and also bank accounts, including in foreign currency, according to the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The description and approval of the character of the public courier service are performed by authorized body.

2. Regulations on the public courier service, rules of the organization of activities of the public courier service and provision of services of the state courier communication, and also the list of users of services of the state courier communication affirm authorized body.

3. Intervention in activities of the public courier service when implementing of the powers by it is forbidden.

4. The structure and states of the public courier service are approved by authorized body.

Article 3. Tasks of the state courier communication

1. Tasks of the state courier communication are:

1) delivery of correspondence proceeding from (sent to the address) the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Elbasa, chairmen of Chambers of Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the President of the Security Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Counselor of state of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Republic of Kazakhstan, heads of Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Office of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Elbasa and Government office of the Republic of Kazakhstan, with delivery in the location of these officials, including outside the Republic of Kazakhstan;

2) delivery of correspondence of state bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan and other organizations determined by the list of users of services of the state courier communication;

3) delivery of the correspondence proceeding from (sent to the address) heads of states, heads of governments, bodies of authority and management of the State Parties of the Commonwealth of Independent States, according to the Agreement on Intergovernmental courier communication;

4) implementation of armed security forces and ensuring safety of confidential departures within the competence established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

5) implementation of international cooperation on the questions carried to conducting the state courier communication.

2. Other tasks of the state courier communication can be established by the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan and other regulatory legal acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Article 4. Legal basis of the organization of the state courier communication

1. The legal basis of the organization of the state courier communication is constituted by the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan, this Law and other regulatory legal acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

2. If the international treaty ratified by the Republic of Kazakhstan establishes other rules, than those which contain in this Law then are applied rules of the international treaty.

Article 5. Principles of the organization of the state courier communication

The principles of the organization of the state courier communication are:

1) legality;

2) the guaranteed safety of correspondence in case of its delivery;

3) efficiency on delivery correspondence;

4) organizational unity of system of the state courier communication;

5) safety of the state secrets and other secrets protected by the law;

6) one-man management and subordination (subordination).

Article 6. Management of the public courier service

1. The public courier service is headed by the chief of the public courier service appointed to position and dismissed by the head of authorized body.

2. Chief of the public courier service:

1) performs management of single system of the public courier service on the principle of one-man management and subordination (subordination);

Submits 2) for consideration of authorized body of the offer on change of structure and states of the public courier service;

Assigns 3), moves on service, dismisses, imposes authority punishments, encourages and awards employees and employees of the public courier service;

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