Article 7. Places of detention of persons suspected or accused of committing a crime, maintaining their records of the Law On the Procedure and conditions of detention of Persons in Special Institutions, Special Premises providing temporary Isolation from Society - Excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated June 30, 2025 No. 203-VIII SAM

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Article 7. Places of detention of persons suspected or accused of committing a crime, maintaining their records of the Law On the Procedure and conditions of detention of Persons in Special Institutions, Special Premises providing temporary Isolation from Society - Excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated June 30, 2025 No. 203-VIII SAM

The footnote. Title as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated December 29, 2010 No. 375-IV (effective after ten calendar days after its first official publication); as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated November 24, 2021 No. 75-VII (effective after ten calendar days after the date of its first official publication).

1. The places of detention of suspects and accused persons are:

1) pre-trial detention facilities of the penal enforcement system and national security agencies of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

2) temporary detention facilities of the internal affairs and national security bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

2. In the cases provided for by this Law, the places of detention of suspects and accused persons may be penal institutions and guardhouses.

3. In cases where detention on suspicion of committing a criminal offense is carried out in accordance with the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan by captains of sea vessels on long-distance voyages, heads of territorial divisions of the Border Service of the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the commander of the area, suspects are held in premises designated by the specified officials and specially adapted for the detention of suspects..

4. The person or body in charge of the criminal case is obliged to notify, within twelve hours, one of the relatives of the suspect or accused of the place or change of the place of his detention in accordance with the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Notification of the place or change of the place of detention of a suspected or accused foreigner within the specified period is sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the National Security Committee, the authorized body of the penal enforcement system of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as to the embassy, consulate or other representative office of the State of which he is a citizen.

Records of persons held in pre-trial detention facilities of the penal enforcement system are kept in accordance with the procedure established by the authorized body in the field of penal enforcement activities.

The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated March 30, 1999 No. 353-I.

This Law defines the legal basis for the activities of special institutions and special premises that legally provide temporary isolation from society, and also establishes the rights and obligations of the persons contained therein.

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