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LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA

of November 8, 2002 No. ZR-424

About charity

(as amended on 01-03-2024)

Accepted on October 8, 2002

Chapter 1. General provisions

Article 1. Subject of regulation of the Law

This Law governs the relations arising in the course of charity implementation, establishes the legal basis of regulation, the purpose, the principles of implementation of charity, form of its support by the state, features of activities of charitable organizations.

Article 2. Charity purpose

The purpose of charity is:

1) assistance to those physical persons (to persons with limited opportunities, to orphans, the unemployed), and also to needy families which are not capable to provide independently own material and spiritual needs;

2) assistance to non-profit and other organizations;

2. 1) assistance to health care development;

3) provision of financial support to persons injured with war, natural disasters, infectious diseases, epidemics and other emergency situations and participation in liquidation of their effects;

4) assistance, by creation of workplaces or retraining of the unemployed, in question of employment of persons needing the public assistance;

5) assistance to implementation of programs in the field of science, educations, arts, literatures, health cares, sport and physical culture;

6) assistance to implementation of programs for protection and reconstruction of monuments of history, architecture, culture, art;

7) assistance to implementation of activities for protection and improvement of the nature and environment;

8) assistance to implementation of the social programs approved by the Government of the Republic of Armenia.

Article 3. Concept "Charity"

1. Charity is provision by physical persons and legal entities voluntary, disinterested, not prohibited by the law (non-paid or on favorable terms) the financial and spiritual support (further - charitable assistance) to physical persons to health and non-profit organizations for implementation of the purposes of article 2 of this Law.

2. Provision of cash or other appliances to batches or the commercial organizations is not considered charity (except for the organizations of health sector).

Article 4. Legal regulation of charity

Charity in the Republic of Armenia is regulated by the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia, the Civil code of the Republic of Armenia, this Law, other legal acts, and also international treaties of the Republic of Armenia.

Article 5. Principles of implementation of charity

The principles of implementation of charity are:

1) respect for social justice;

2) strengthening and distribution of humanity;

3) protection of human dignity;

4) strengthening of consent between generations;

5) respect for social targeting;

6) exception of social dependency;

7) exception of racial discrimination.

Article 6. Right to charity implementation

1. Physical persons and legal entities perform charity by the principle of voluntariness and liberty of choice of the purposes, individually or jointly, personally or indirectly.

2. Restriction of liberty of choice of the purposes determined by this Law and forms of implementation of charity is forbidden.

Chapter 2. Participants of charity

Article 7. Participants of charity

Participants of charity are philanthropists, volunteers, beneficiaries. Charitable organizations can act both as philanthropists, and as beneficiaries.

Also the Republic of Armenia and municipalities can be participants of charity (philanthropists and beneficiaries).

Article 8. Philanthropists

Philanthropists - physical persons and legal entities which perform charity for the purpose of, specified in article 2 of this Law.

Article 9. Volunteer

1. The volunteer takes part in the charity established by this Law and performs volunteer works for benefit of receivers of charity in the procedure established by the Law.

Article 10. Beneficiaries

Beneficiaries - the physical persons and legal entities receiving charitable gifts in the consent.

Chapter 3. Charitable organizations, features of their creation and activities

Article 11. Charitable organizations

1. Charitable organizations are those non-profit organizations which perform the charitable assistance determined by this Law.

2. The name of charitable organization shall include the word "charitable".

3. Charitable organizations are created in the form of public associations, funds, and also in other forms provided by the Law.

4. State bodies and local self-government cannot be founders of charitable organization.

Article 12. Features of use of property of charitable organization

1. Charitable organizations cannot accept as donation any property, with condition of its use to benefit of the donator.

2. The charitable organization can use on compensation of the device and economic needs up to 20 percent of income gained by the organization within each financial year, income except for gained in the form of donation concerning which the philanthropist establishes other conditions.

3. By charitable organization within year after receipt of cash donations and other donations at least 80 percent of these donations shall be used if the philanthropist or the charitable program do not install other. Donations in natural form and other donations entirely go for implementation of the charitable purposes in limits of term of their validity, but no later than within one year after their obtaining if the philanthropist or the charitable program do not install other.

In case of non-use by charitable organizations of cash donations and donations in natural form at the scheduled time, terms of their use can be extended by authorized body for a period of up to six months.

Terms of use of donations in natural form can be prolonged within the term of their validity.

In case of non-use of cash donations and donations in natural form in the specified terms, they can be collected judicially. The goods imported into the Republic of Armenia for the purpose of charity are revaluated in the procedure established by the Government of the Republic of Armenia.

Article 13. Charitable program

1. The charitable program is description of the actions of non-profit organization directed according to the purposes of this Law to the solution of certain tasks which affirms according to the procedure, established by the charter of this organization.

2. The authorized body performs the following functions:

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