Article 23. Competence of the authorized body of the Law on Advocacy and Legal Assistance

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Authorized body:

1) formulates and implements the state policy in the field of legal assistance;

2) coordinates the activities of persons providing state-guaranteed legal assistance;

3) develops drafts of regulatory legal acts on the provision of legal assistance;

4) monitors the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on advocacy and legal assistance, the completeness of the scope and quality of legal assistance;

5) carries out international cooperation in the field of legal assistance;

6) coordinates the standards of legal aid provision;

7) coordinates the criteria for the quality of legal aid;

8) develops and approves quality criteria for the provision of state-guaranteed legal aid;

9) is the administrator of budget programs for all types of state-guaranteed legal aid;

10) ensures the functioning and development of a system of state-guaranteed legal aid;

10-1) establishes the amount of payment for state-guaranteed legal assistance provided by a lawyer, legal adviser, and reimbursement of expenses related to legal advice, defense, and representation, as well as the conduct of conciliation procedures;

11) ensures publication at least once a year in periodicals distributed throughout the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan and posting on its Internet resource information about the system and the main results of state-guaranteed legal aid;

12) develops and approves the accounting procedure for state-guaranteed legal assistance provided by a lawyer or legal consultant;

13) approves the rules for the payment of state-guaranteed legal aid provided by a lawyer, legal adviser, and reimbursement of expenses related to legal advice, defense, and representation, as well as the conduct of conciliation procedures;

14) monitors the quality of state-guaranteed legal aid;

15) monitors the activities of chambers of legal consultants;

16) provides legal information to the public about persons providing legal assistance, mechanisms, grounds and conditions for providing legal assistance;

17) develops and approves the standard charter of the Chamber of Legal Consultants;

18) maintains the register of Chambers of legal consultants;

19) develops and approves a standard insurance contract for professional liability of lawyers in coordination with the authorized body for regulation, control and supervision of the financial market and financial organizations;

20) develops and approves a standard professional liability insurance contract for legal consultants in coordination with the authorized body for regulation, control and supervision of the financial market and financial organizations;

21) exercise other powers provided for by this Law, other laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan, acts of the President and the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The footnote. Article 23 as amended by the Laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 07/03/2019 No. 262-VI (effective from 01.01.2020); dated 06/20/2022 No. 128-VII (effective sixty calendar days after the date of its first official publication); dated 04/19/2023 No. 223-VII (effective after ten calendar days after the day of its first official publication).

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