RESOLUTION OF THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

of November 21, 2022 No. 143

About holding testing certification and issue of the certificate on certification of person rendering legal services

Based on part one of Item 3 of article 227 of the Law of the Republic of Belarus of October 14, 2022 "About licensing" and parts one of Item 12 of the Regulations on the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus approved by the resolution of Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus of July 26, 2024 No. 545, the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus DECIDES: No. 213-Z

1. Approve the Instruction about procedure for holding testing certification, issue of the certificate on certification of person rendering legal services, introduction in it of changes, prolongation of effective period, issue of the duplicate, cancellation (cancellation) of the certificate and pronouncement of the warning to the owner of the certificate it (is applied).

2. Determine that the individual entrepreneurs having for January 1, 2023 special permission (license) for implementation of activities for rendering legal services with indication of constituting licensed service activities – legal services, for the admission to passing till July 1, 2023 testing certification for the purpose of receipt of the certificate on certification of person rendering legal services represent to the Ministry of Justice the adequate notice without appendix of other documents.

3. This resolution becomes effective since January 1, 2023.

Approved by the Resolution of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus of November 21, 2022 No. 143

The instruction about procedure for holding testing certification, issue of the certificate on certification of person rendering legal services, introduction in it of changes, prolongation of effective period, issue of the duplicate, cancellation (cancellation) of the certificate and pronouncement of the warning to the owner of the certificate

Chapter 1. General provisions

1. This Instruction determines procedure for holding testing certification, issue of the certificate on certification of person rendering legal services (further, unless otherwise specified, – the certificate), introduction in it of changes, prolongation of effective period, issue of the duplicate, cancellation (cancellation) of the certificate and pronouncement of the warning to the owner of the certificate.

2. The citizens of the Republic of Belarus having are allowed to passing testing certification (further, unless otherwise specified, – examination):

the higher legal education;

length of service on legal specialty after receipt of the higher legal education at least three years.

3. Persons are not allowed to passing an examination:

recognized as incapacitated or it is limited by capable;

committed intentional crime for which criminal record is not removed or is not extinguished;

dismissed from court, law enforcement and other state bodies, other organizations for the bases recognized according to legal acts the discrediting circumstances of dismissal, and it is equal in the relation of which the Ministry of Justice the decision on the termination of the license for implementation of lawyer activities for making of the actions discrediting rank of the lawyer and legal profession – within three years from the date of dismissal, adoption of the relevant decision is made;

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