Article 80. Documents of the company The Law on Joint-Stock Companies
1. The company's documents related to its activities are subject to storage by the company in digital form and (or) on paper during the entire period of its activity at the location of the company's executive body or in another place determined by its charter.
The following documents are subject to storage:
1) the articles of Association of the company, amendments and additions made to the articles of association of the company;
2) Minutes of the constituent assemblies;
3) the founding agreement (decision of the sole founder), amendments and additions made to the founding agreement (decision of the sole founder);
4) excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated December 24, 2012 No. 60-V (effective after ten calendar days after its first official publication);
5) excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 03/19/2010 No. 258-IV;
6) permits for the company to engage in certain types of activities and (or) perform certain actions (operations);
7) documents confirming the company's rights to the property that is (was) on its balance sheet;
8) prospectuses of the company's securities issue;
9) documents confirming the state registration of the company's securities issue, cancellation of securities, as well as approval of reports on the results of the placement and redemption of the company's securities submitted to the authorized body;
10) regulations on branches and representative offices of the company;
11) minutes of general meetings of shareholders, minutes of voting results and ballots (including invalid ballots), materials on the agenda of general meetings of shareholders;
12) lists of shareholders to be submitted for the general Meeting of Shareholders;
13) minutes of meetings (decisions of absentee meetings) of the Board of Directors and ballots (including invalid ballots), materials on issues on the agenda of the Board of Directors affecting the rights of shareholders in accordance with this Law, the charter and the prospectus for the issue of non-governmental equity securities of the company;
14) minutes of meetings (decisions) of the executive body;
15) the Corporate Governance Code, if any.
2. Other documents, including the financial statements of the company, are kept for a period established in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
3. At the request of a shareholder, the company is obliged to provide him with copies of the documents provided for in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this article, in accordance with the procedure established by the company's charter, but no later than ten calendar days from the date of receipt of such a request by the company, while restrictions may be imposed on the provision of information constituting an official, commercial or other legally protected secret.
The amount of the fee for providing copies of documents is set by the company and may not exceed the cost of making copies of documents and paying for expenses related to the delivery of documents to the shareholder.
Documents regulating certain issues of the issue, placement, circulation and conversion of the company's securities, containing information constituting an official, commercial or other legally protected secret, must be submitted for review to the shareholder upon his request.
4. The Company has the right, no later than ten calendar days from the date of receipt by the company of the shareholder's request specified in paragraph 3 of this article, to refuse to provide a copy of the documents in the presence of at least one of the following conditions:
1) the electronic version of the requested document as of the date of the shareholder's request is posted on the Internet resource of the financial reporting depository in accordance with the procedure provided for by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the securities market and on joint-stock companies.;
2) the document is requested repeatedly within the last three years, provided that the first requirement of the shareholder to provide it has been fulfilled by the company in full.;
3) the document relates to the previous periods of the company's activity (more than three years prior to the date of the request), with the exception of documents on transactions, the execution of which is carried out on the date of the shareholder's request;
4) the document relates to the previous periods of the company's activity (more than twelve months before the date of the person's acquisition of the company's shares), with the exception of documents on transactions executed during the period of the person's ownership of the company's shares (this rule applies to persons who have become shareholders of the company not earlier than twelve months before the date of application to the company).
The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated May 13, 2003 No. 415.
The article was amended and supplemented by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated July 23, 2026, No. 352-VIII SAM.
This Law defines the legal status, procedure for the establishment, operation, reorganization and liquidation of a joint-stock company; the rights and obligations of shareholders, as well as measures to protect their rights and interests; the competence, procedure for the formation and functioning of the bodies of a joint-stock company; the powers, procedure for the election and responsibility of its officials.
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