It is registered
Ministry of Justice
Republic of Uzbekistan
On October 9, 2025 No. 3686
of October 9, 2025 No. 23-mkh
About approval of Rules of preparation, acceptance, conducting legal examination and state registration of departmental regulatory legal acts
According to the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan "About regulatory legal acts", the Presidential decree of the Republic of Uzbekistan of September 8, 2025 No. UP-161 "About Measures for Strengthening of Responsibility and Initiative of the Ministries and Departments in Increase in Efficiency of Legal Support of Reforms and Regulation of the Public Relations", the resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan of April 13, 2018 "About organizational measures for further enhancement of activities of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan" and the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan of October 9, 1997 No. 469 "About measures for law enforcement of regulations of the ministries and departments" I order to No. PP-3666:
1. Approve Rules of preparation, acceptance, conducting legal examination and state registration of departmental regulatory legal acts according to appendix 1.
2. Recognize invalid some departmental regulatory legal acts according to appendix 2.
3. This order becomes effective from the date of its official publication.
Minister
A. Tashkulov
Appendix No. 1
to the Order of the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan of October 9, 2025 No. 23-mkh
These rules determine procedure for preparation, registration, coordination and acceptance by the ministries and departments of drafts of departmental regulatory legal acts, and also legal examination and state registration of the adopted departmental regulatory legal acts in the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan and introduction their force.
1. In these rules the following concepts are applied:
the legislative equipment - set of rules, methods, means and acceptances (techniques) used for the organization and implementation of activities for law-making.
the departmental regulatory legal act - the official document accepted according to the legislation the ministry and department in certain type, directed to establishment, change or cancellation of precepts of law as obligatory state instructions;
Single electronic system of development and coordination of drafts of regulatory legal acts (further - electronic system) - the electronic system providing development, coordination, adoption of drafts of departmental regulatory legal acts, and also conducting legal examination and state registration of the adopted acts;
legal examination - implementation of check of compliance of the departmental regulatory legal act of the Constitution and to the laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan, other regulatory legal act having in comparison with it higher legal force, to the purposes and tasks of the reforms undertaken in the country, rules of the legislative equipment, and also justification and feasibility of application of referential regulations.
2. Development, coordination of drafts of departmental regulatory legal acts, their acceptance, conducting legal examination and state registration of the adopted acts are performed only by means of electronic system, except for the departmental regulatory legal acts containing information carried according to the legislation to the state secrets and confidential information.
3. The ministries and departments adopt departmental regulatory legal acts according to the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan "About regulatory legal acts", the Presidential decree of the Republic of Uzbekistan of September 8, 2025 No. UP-161 "About Measures for Strengthening of Responsibility and Initiative of the Ministries and Departments in Increase in Efficiency of Legal Support of Reforms and Regulation of the Public Relations", the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan of October 9, 1997 No. 469 "About measures for law enforcement of regulations of the ministries and departments", and also other acts of the legislation, including these rules.
In these rules departments are understood as executive bodies of the republic, authorized to perform state policy in the respective sphere, including committees, the agencies and the inspections subordinated to the ministries and departments, or specially authorized state bodies.
4. The ministries and departments adopt departmental regulatory legal acts on basis and in pursuance of legal acts, decrees and resolutions of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and also resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers.
The ministries and departments can adopt departmental regulatory legal acts if legal acts, by decrees and resolutions of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan to them confer powers on implementation of state policy in the respective sphere.
Committees, the agencies and the inspections subordinated to the ministries and departments can adopt departmental regulatory legal acts if power on implementation of state policy in the respective sphere according to legal acts, decrees and resolutions of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and also resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers is assigned to them. At the same time, in necessary cases, committees, the agencies and the inspections subordinated to the ministries and departments approve drafts of these documents with the higher ministry or department.
Structural divisions and territorial authorities of the ministries and departments have no right to adopt departmental regulatory legal acts. The ministries and departments have no right to delegate powers on adoption of departmental regulatory legal acts to other bodies, and also the executive bodies which are logging in or being under organizational supervision.
5. The ministries and departments in case of the questions requiring legal settlement shall adopt timely the corresponding departmental regulatory legal acts within powers on implementation of state policy.
The Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan has the right to bring submissions to the ministries and departments about need of adoption of the corresponding departmental regulatory legal act, with indication of the term of its acceptance.
The term of adoption of departmental regulatory legal acts shall not exceed two months if in legal acts, decrees and resolutions of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers longer term is not established.
6. Inclusion of precepts of law in the documents which are not departmental regulatory legal acts is not allowed (town-planning regulations and rules, phytosanitary requirements, health regulations, regulations and hygienic standard rates, environmental standards and rules, veterinary, and also veterinary health regulations and regulations, letters, telephone messages, explanations on private questions, individual acts and others) (except as specified, provided in the paragraph the second this Item). The acts which do not have obligatory nature, but containing precepts of law as obligatory state instructions are subject to cancellation and are not applied.
At the same time, in the course of reduction of health regulations, regulations and hygienic standard rates, phytosanitary requirements, environmental standards and rules, veterinary and veterinary health regulations and regulations in compliance with international standards entering of precepts of law into them is allowed.
The Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan has the right to bring ideas of cancellation and response from execution of the acts of normative and legal nature adopted by the ministries and departments which did not undergo state registration.
The ministries and departments in ten-day time shall cancel and withdraw the acts of normative and legal nature which did not undergo state registration from execution and to report about it in the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
7. Departmental regulatory legal acts are adopted in the form of orders and resolutions according to appendices 1-14 to these rules.
8. Orders are accepted by heads of the ministries and departments in which decision making on behalf of the ministry or department is performed solely.
9. Resolutions are accepted by departments in which decision making on behalf of department is performed by their collegiate organs.
Departmental regulatory legal acts of two or more ministries and departments are accepted in the form of the resolution.
10. Orders and resolutions can be accepted in coordination with other organizations
11. Orders and resolutions provisions, rules, instructions which are component of this order or resolution according to appendices 1-5 to these rules can affirm.
Approval by one order or the resolution of several provisions, rules, instructions or other acts is not allowed.
12. The main content of provisions provides establishment systemically of the rules connected among themselves directed to regulation of complex of the relations united on the basis of general signs.
13. The main contents of rules provide establishment of the separate precepts of law directed to regulation of the specific relations.
14. The main contents of instructions provide specification of aspects of application of provisions of acts of the legislation.
15. Departmental regulatory legal acts can be adopted for certain term (temporary) or sine die.
Effective period of the departmental regulatory legal act can be established for all act or its part. In this case it shall be specified for what term or before what event the regulatory legal act or its part keeps action.
16. Effective period of departmental regulatory legal acts can be limited:
a) specific date;
b) approach of certain event or goal achievement of adoption of the departmental regulatory legal act.
17. Preparation of the draft of the departmental regulatory legal act is assigned to one or several structural divisions of the ministries and departments taking into account their functions and competences. At the same time the circle of the officials responsible for preparation of the specified project, term of its preparation, and if necessary - the organizations involved in this work are determined.
18. For preparation of drafts of departmental regulatory legal acts working groups can be created.
19. The draft of the departmental regulatory legal act is subject to obligatory legal examination by legal service of the ministries and departments.
20. In the course of work on the draft of the departmental regulatory legal act the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan relating to project subject, experience of legislative regulation and the legislation of other states, the international agreements and other documents is studied, practice of application of the relevant acts of the legislation, scientific literature and materials of mass media on case in point, and also data of social and other researches are analyzed if those were carried out.
The draft of the departmental regulatory legal act is also subject to studying regarding availability of the precepts of law provided in Item 22 of these rules.
Before project development of the departmental regulatory legal act within assessment of the regulating impact it is necessary to study urgent need of its acceptance and possibility of elimination of problem by means of other alternative decisions without adoption of this act.
21. Departmental regulatory legal acts shall correspond to the acts of the legislation having in comparison with them higher legal force, to the purposes and tasks of the reforms undertaken in the country, and also rules of the legislative equipment.
22. In departmental regulatory legal acts inclusion of precepts of law is forbidden:
creating conditions for manifestation of corruption and making of other offenses;
creating possibility of direct and indirect discrimination on the basis of floor;
regulating the questions which are included into power of bodies of economic board, and the corporate relations;
complicating the operating procedures, including procedure of business activity;
limiting the rights and freedoms of citizens;
establishing new privileges or measures of responsibility for physical persons and legal entities, and also unreasonable additional expenses and payments;
providing new types of tax and charges, licensed, allowing and notifying procedures;
containing excessive administrative or other restrictions.
23. The structure of the departmental regulatory legal act shall provide logical development and disclosure of subject of legal regulation, and also uniform understanding and application of future act.
24. The departmental regulatory legal act shall have the short name corresponding to its content and reflecting its subject of regulation. The name of the act shall be exact, accurate and is most information saturated.
If the order or the resolution the provision, rules, the instruction or other document affirms, that name of the order or the resolution shall contain instruction on approval of these acts in form according to appendices 1 - 5 to these rules.
25. For explanation of the purposes and motives of adoption of the departmental regulatory legal act the project can join the prolog - preamble.
The preamble contains motives, the purposes and tasks of adoption of the departmental regulatory legal act, and also acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan, decrees and resolutions of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan (their Articles or Items), in execution or based on which it is accepted shall be specified legislative. At the same time, types of regulatory legal acts are specified according to their legal force.
The preamble shall not contain precepts of law, be divided into Items and be numbered.
26. Precepts of law are stated in the form of Items which are numbered by the Arab figures with point and have no headings. Numbering of Items of the departmental regulatory legal act shall be end-to-end. Items can be divided into subitems which are numbered by lowercase letters or figures with the closing parentheses, and paragraphs.
27. In the departmental regulatory legal act it is not allowed:
use of double numbering and (or) letters (for example, "1.1", "5.1.1", "1.a", "a.a", etc.);
statement in Item at the same time both subitems, and independent (not connected with the subitem) paragraphs;
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