LAW OF THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC

of July 21, 2015 No. 185

About measures for the prevention of damnification to health of children, their physical, intellectual, mental, spiritual and moral development in the Kyrgyz Republic

Accepted by Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic on June 18, 2015

This Law establishes measures for the prevention of damnification to health, physical, intellectual, mental, spiritual and moral development of children in the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic.

Article 1. The basic concepts used in this Law

For the purposes of this Law the following basic concepts are used:

1) children (minors) - persons who did not reach 18-year age;

2) persons replacing parents - close relatives (full age brothers and sisters, the grandfather, the grandmother, brothers and sisters of parents), adoptive parents, adoptive parents, guardians, custodians, officials of organizations, on care or under the care of which there is minor;

3) persons performing actions with participation of children - persons performing actions by training, to education, development, health protection, social protection and social servicing of children, assistance of their social adaptation, social resettlement and other actions with participation of children;

4) places in which finding of children is forbidden - the public places established and determined according to this Law in which stay can do harm to health of children, their physical, intellectual, mental, spiritual and moral development;

5) places in which finding of children is limited - the public places established and determined according to this Law in which for the purpose of the prevention of damnification to health of children, finding of minors without parents is forbidden at night to their physical, intellectual, mental, spiritual and moral development (persons, them replacing) or persons performing actions with participation of children;

6) night time - period during the summer period (from June 1 to August 31) from 23:00 to 06:00 o'clock, in the rest of the time of year - from 22:00 to 06:00 o'clock;

7) subjects of prevention of offenses - state bodies, local government bodies, business entities irrespective of patterns of ownership, the officials, citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic, foreign citizens and persons without citizenship living in the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic;

8) information security of children - condition of security of children in case of which there is no risk connected with causing by information of harm to their health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral development;

9) information doing harm to health or development of children - information which distribution among children is forbidden or limited according to this Law;

10) information products - products of mass media intended for turnover in the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic, printed materials, audiovisual products on any kinds of carriers, computer programs and databases, and also information distributed by means of spectacular actions and information placed in information and telecommunication networks (including on the Internet) and networks of mobile radiotelephone communication;

11) information products for children - the information products corresponding on subject, content and decorating to physical, mental, spiritual and moral development of children.

Article 2. Determination of places in which finding of children is forbidden or limited

1. Finding of children irrespective of time of day is forbidden:

1) on objects (in the territories, in rooms) legal entities or individual entrepreneurs who are intended for sales of goods only of sexual nature;

2) at beer restaurants, wine bars, pubs, other places which are intended for the realization only of alcoholic products, beer and drinks made on its basis.

2. Finding of children at night without parents (persons, them replacing) or persons performing actions with participation of children is forbidden:

1) on streets, stadiums, in parks, squares;

2) in vehicles public;

3) in the territories of stations and the airports, except as specified, when children are passengers;

4) on reservoirs and the territories adjoining to them;

5) in places public of apartment apartment houses, in the territories adjacent to apartment apartment houses, including nurseries and sports grounds;

6) on objects (in the territories, in rooms) legal entities or individual entrepreneurs who are intended for rendering of services in the sphere of trade and public catering (the organizations or Items) for entertainments, leisure (including entertainment centers, night clubs, baths, saunas) where retail sale of alcoholic products, the beer and drinks made on its basis is provided in the procedure established by the law;

7) on objects (in the territories, in rooms) legal entities or individual entrepreneurs who are intended for ensuring access to the Internet (including in Internet cafe, Internet clubs).

3. Action of regulations of part 2 of this Article does not extend:

1) at night since December 31 for January 1;

2) during in the general education organizations and the organizations of primary professional education of the festive events devoted to completion of training in programs of the basic of the general, secondary general education, primary professional education in the specified organizations concerning graduates of the specified organizations;

3) during the festive actions organized by public authorities.

Article 2-1. Types of information, doing harm to health and development of children

1. Information belongs to the information doing harm to health or development of children, forbidden for distribution among children:

1) inducing children to making of the actions posing threat of their life or to health including to damnification to the health, suicide;

2) capable to cause in children desire to use drugs, the psychotropic or stupefying substances, drugs containing in structure narcotic substances, tobacco products, the nicotinocontaining products, the alcoholic and alcohol-containing products, beer and drinks made on its basis, energy drinks to take part in gamblings, to be engaged in prostitution, vagrancy or begging;

3) the proving or justifying admissibility of violence or cruelty or inducing to perform violent acts in relation to people or animal, except as specified, provided by this Law;

4) denying family and traditional social values, propagandizing the nonconventional sexual relations and creating disrespect for parents or other family members;

5) justifying delinquent behavior;

6) containing strong language;

7) containing information of pornographic nature.

2. Information belongs to information which distribution among children of certain age categories is limited:

1) presented in the form of the image or description of cruelty, physical or mental abuse, crime or other antisocial action, causing fear, horror or panic in children, including presented in the form of the image or description in the form of nonviolent death, disease, suicide, accident, accident or catastrophic crash and their consequences degrading human dignity;

2) presented in the form of the image or description of the sexual relations between the man and woman;

3) containing the swear words and expressions which are not relating to strong language.

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