LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

of December 30, 2025 No. 245-VIII ZRK

About prevention of offenses

This Law determines legal, economic, social and organizational basis of activities of state bodies, local government bodies, organizations and citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan for prevention of offenses.

Section 1. System of prevention of offenses

Chapter 1. General provisions

Article 1. Basic concepts

In this Law the following basic concepts are used:

1) social adaptation - package of measures, the offenses performed by subjects of prevention directed to forming of the personality capable to accept and respect the rules and rules of conduct in society;

2) social resettlement - package of measures, the offenses performed by subjects of prevention directed to rendering the legal, public, psychological, pedagogical assistance to person in difficult life situation and also process of overcoming psychological and (or) moral injury;

3) pedagogical escort of the minors requiring special attention - complex of the individual social and psychology and pedagogical measures directed to early identification of the students requiring the increased pedagogical attention and rendering timely support to them;

4) law-abiding behavior - the conscious behavior of person meeting the standards of behavior established by the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

5) offices of the help to children - to victims of violence - the offices intended for rendering full assistance to the children who were injured from violence;

6) education of the minor - continuous process of impact on the child from parents or other legal representatives, and also employees of state bodies on instilling of the rules and standards of behavior accepted in society and directed to its spiritual, physical, moral, mental, cultural, intellectual development and protection against negative influence of social environment in it;

7) prevention of offenses among minors - complex of the legal, pedagogical and other measures directed to the prevention of offenses, neglects, homelessness and antisocial behavior among minors, identification and elimination of the reasons and conditions, promoting them, performed in total with measures for individual prevention with minors, parents or other legal representatives of minors, not the acting as on their education, training or content or negatively influencing their behavior, and also the other persons involving minors in making of offenses or manifestation of antisocial behavior;

8) the organizations for assistance - the legal entities performing provision of special social services and (or) the help according to this Law;

9) physical abuse - intentional damnification to health by use of physical force and causing physical pain;

10) neglected - the minor, control of whose behavior is absent owing to non-execution or improper execution of obligations on his education, training and (or) content from parents or their legal representatives or owing to its unauthorized withdrawal from the house or the organizations performing functions on protection of the rights of the child;

11) neglect - the social phenomenon which is characterized by lack of proper control of behavior and conduct of life of minors, promoting making of offenses by them;

12) antisocial behavior - the actions of physical person breaking the commonly accepted standards of behavior and morals, the rights and legitimate interests of other persons including which are not involving administrative or criminal liability;

13) the public assistant - the citizen participating in prevention of offenses and ensuring public order by voluntary rendering assistance to subjects of prevention of offenses;

14) the public place - the place public within or out of settlements, held for use the population, and also holding mass actions, servicing and rest of citizens which list is provided by this Law;

15) offense - illegal act (action or failure to act) attracting the responsibility established by the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

16) person inclined to making of offenses, - the physical person staying on the preventive registry who owing to danger of the antisocial behavior is in condition of risk of possible making of offense or made offense;

17) prevention of offenses - complex of the legal, economic, social, organizational and other measures performed by subjects of prevention of the offenses directed to preserving and strengthening of law and order by identification, studying, elimination of the reasons and conditions promoting making of offenses;

18) measures for prevention of offenses - general, individual and special measures on prevention of offenses;

19) system of prevention of offenses - set of subjects, types and measures for prevention of offenses, and also coordination of their activities and monitoring;

20) subjects of prevention of offenses - the state bodies, local government bodies, the organizations and citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan performing prevention of offenses;

21) viktimologichesky prevention of offenses - activities of subjects of prevention of offenses for application of the preventive measures directed to decrease at the particular person or group of persons of risk to become the victim from offense;

22) legal education - package of measures of educational, information and organizational nature, directed to forming of law-abiding behavior, sense of justice and legal culture of citizens;

23) the home relations - the relations between the spouses who were the spouses, persons living or living jointly, the close relatives, persons having general child(children);

24) homeless - neglected, not taking the places of residence;

25) psychological violence - intentional impact on mentality of the person, humiliation of honor and advantage by means of threats, insults, blackmail or coercion (compulsion) to making of the offenses or acts posing hazard to life or health, and also leading to violation of mental, physical and personal development;

26) sexual violence - the intentional illegal action encroaching on sexual integrity or sexual human freedom, and also actions of sexual nature in relation to minors;

27) domestic violence - intentional illegal act (action or failure to act) of one person in the field of the home relations concerning another (others) the persons (persons) causing or containing threat of causing physical and (or) mental suffering;

28) economic violence - intentional deprivation of the person of housing, food, clothes, property, means to which he has the right provided by the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Article 2. Legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on prevention of offenses

1. The legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on prevention of offenses is based on regulations of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan, consists of this Law, international treaties ratified by the Republic of Kazakhstan and other regulatory legal acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

2. The international agreements ratified by the Republic of Kazakhstan have priority before this Law. The procedure and conditions of action in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan of international treaties which participant is the Republic of Kazakhstan are determined by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Article 3. Main objectives and principles of this Law

1. Main objectives of this Law are ensuring protection and observance of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of man and citizen in the field of prevention of offenses, preserving and strengthening of law and order by identification, studying, elimination of the reasons and conditions promoting making of offenses.

2. State policy in the field of prevention of offenses is performed on the basic principles:

1) legality;

2) publicity;

3) scientific justification;

4) confidentiality;

5) priority of preventive measures on prevention of offenses over repressive;

6) complexity and systemacity;

7) individual approach to each man and citizen;

8) humanities;

9) supports and preserving family;

10) inadmissibility of causing to man and citizen of physical and (or) mental suffering.

Article 4. Main objectives of this Law

The main objectives of this Law are:

1) ensuring protection of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of man and citizen from illegal encroachments;

2) decrease in level of offenses;

3) prevention, suppression of offenses;

4) increase in level of legal culture and forming of law-abiding behavior;

5) ensuring purposeful work on social resettlement and adaptation of the victims and persons inclined to making of offenses;

6) increase in active participation of citizens in ensuring public order and prevention of offenses;

7) coordination of activities of subjects of prevention of offenses;

8) enhancement of system of prevention of offenses, and also identification, studying, elimination of the reasons and conditions promoting them;

9) assistance to physical, intellectual, spiritual and moral development of citizens, fostering patriotism, civic consciousness and the peacefulness combined with interests of society, traditions of the people of Kazakhstan, achievements of national and world culture;

10) ensuring purposeful work on social resettlement of the children requiring the increased pedagogical attention and to forming at minors of sense of justice and legal culture;

11) forming of the legal basis for carrying out measures for individual prevention with persons inclined to making of offenses;

12) interaction of subjects of prevention of offenses with parents and other legal representatives of the minor;

13) the state support of non-profit organizations which activities are connected with implementation of measures for prevention of offenses, neglect and homelessness among minors, by means of placement of the state social order and other measures according to legal acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Chapter 2. Subjects of prevention of offenses

Article 5. Competence of state bodies

1. The state bodies specified in this Law within competence:

1) participate in development and provide realization of state policy on prevention of offenses;

2) are analyzed, establish the reasons and conditions promoting making of offenses take measures for their elimination;

3) is applied by measures for prevention of offenses;

4) make suggestions for improvement of system of prevention of offenses in authorized state bodies;

5) take measures for social adaptation and social resettlement;

6) is applied by measures for viktimologichesky prevention of offenses;

7) participate in forming of healthy lifestyle;

8) interact with public associations on prevention of offenses;

9) carry out to mass media information work about the taken measures for prevention of offenses;

10) perform other functions provided by this Law, the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan, acts of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

2. Heads of the state bodies specified in this Law bear responsibility for rejection of measures for prevention of offenses.

Article 6. The rights of citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of prevention of offenses

Citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan have the right:

1) voluntarily to take part in prevention of offenses;

2) to warn and stop offenses, to demand from other citizens of respect for public order;

3) to render assistance to subjects of prevention of offenses in preventive actions;

To report 4) in authorized state bodies about the facts of making of the offenses and persons inclined to making of offenses;

5) to use technical means to fixing of offense;

6) to participate in assistance to the victims from illegal encroachments, the road accidents;

7) together with state bodies and the organizations to carry out explanatory and legal work in the field of prevention of offenses;

8) to appeal in the procedure established by the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan action (failure to act) of subjects of prevention of offenses in the field of prevention of offenses.

Article 7. Competence of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan:

1) develops the main directions of social and economic policy of the state, safety, ensuring public order and will organize their implementation;

2) is provided by acceptance of timely measures on non-admission of crisis demographic processes, control of sharp growth of unemployment and the fall of level of living of the population attracting growth of number of offenses;

3) provides interaction of subjects of prevention of offenses and coordination of their activities;

4) is developed by provision, structure of the interdepartmental commission on prevention of offenses under the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and submits them for approval to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

5) is brought to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan by the annual National report on condition of public safety (prevention of offenses);

6) performs other functions assigned to it by the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan and acts of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Article 8. Competence of local representative bodies

Local representative bodies:

1) are approved and control execution of local budgets regarding expenses on prevention of offenses;

2) is heard by reports of heads and officials of subjects of prevention of offenses on the work which is carried out by them;

3) approve on representation of the akim structure of the interdepartmental commissions on prevention of offenses, for minors and protection of their rights;

4) promote execution by citizens and the organizations of regulations of this Law;

5) are considered and approve the budget programs developed by the relevant akimats, concerning assignment for encouragement of the citizens participating in prevention of offenses;

6) control activities of the commissions of the relevant akimats for encouragement of the citizens participating in prevention of offenses;

7) is performed by other powers, stipulated by the legislation the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Article 9. Competence of local executive bodies

1. Local executive bodies of areas, cities of republican value, capital:

1) are developed and realize measures for prevention of offenses in development plans for regions;

2) take measures for elimination of the reasons and conditions promoting making of offenses;

3) provide interaction of subjects of prevention of offenses at the local level;

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