Article 110. Amounts payable to experts, specialists, witnesses, translators of the Civil Procedure Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan
1. Witnesses, experts, specialists and interpreters shall be reimbursed for travel expenses incurred by them in connection with their appearance in court, rental of premises and daily allowances in the amounts established for persons sent on business trips. The expert and the specialist are also reimbursed for the cost of chemical reagents and other consumables belonging to them, which they spent while performing the assigned work, as well as the fees they paid for the use of equipment and utilities.
2. Employees who are summoned to court as witnesses shall retain their average earnings at their place of work during their absence in connection with their appearance in court. Witnesses who are not in an employment relationship receive compensation for distracting them from their usual activities, taking into account the actual time spent and based on the minimum monthly salary established by law.
3. The work performed is subject to payment, which is not included in the scope of official duties of experts involved on a one-time basis, as well as specialists commissioned by the court. The amount of payment is determined by the court in agreement with the parties and is preliminarily deposited into an account opened in accordance with the procedure established by the budget legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan by the party that filed the petition.
4. The payment of amounts to witnesses, experts, specialists, as well as payment for the examination by the judicial examination authorities is made by the party that filed the petition. If the petition is filed by both parties, or the summoning of a witness, the appointment of an expert examination, or the involvement of a specialist are made on the initiative of the court, the required amounts are paid by the parties in equal parts.
5. The amounts to be paid for the examination by a judicial examination body or a private judicial expert shall be deposited into their account in the form of an advance payment by the party(s) who filed the petition or by the party charged by the court with such an obligation. In the event of non-payment of the amount within the time limits set by the court, the costs associated with the examination shall be imposed by a court decision on the person who did not make (untimely payment), regardless of the results of the consideration of the case in accordance with the second part of Article 109 of this Code.
6. The payment of amounts due to experts and specialists in the event that one or both parties are exempt from paying costs is made at the expense of budgetary funds based on the results of consideration of the case on the basis of a court decision.
The procedure for payment of amounts due to experts and specialists is determined by the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The Civil Procedure Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated October 31, 2015 No. 377-V SAM.
The article was amended and supplemented by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated July 14, 2026, No. 350-VIII SAM
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