Article 9. Competence of local executive bodies Law On Prevention of Infractions

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1. Local executive bodies of the capital, regions, and cities of national importance:

1) develop and implement crime prevention measures in regional development plans;

2) take measures to eliminate the causes and conditions conducive to the commission of offenses;

3) ensure the interaction of subjects of crime prevention at the local level;

4) promote the employment of persons who are inclined to commit offenses, as well as convicted persons in institutions of the penal (penitentiary) system in accordance with the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Local Public Administration and Self-Government in the Republic of Kazakhstan";

5) ensure the creation and functioning of a crime prevention system at the local level;

6) provide maintenance in accordance with the procedure established by the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan for children in need of special social services, aged from three to eighteen years in juvenile adaptation centers, support centers for children in need of special social services;

7) provide maintenance in accordance with the procedure established by the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan in special educational institutions for minors aged eleven to eighteen years;

8) ensure the formation of social infrastructure for minors, including organizations performing functions for the protection of children's rights, special educational organizations, and monitor their activities;

9) submit for approval to the relevant local representative bodies the composition of interdepartmental commissions for the prevention of offenses, juvenile affairs and the protection of their rights, as well as ensure their functioning;

9-1) form interdepartmental commissions for the implementation of the constitutional principle of Law and Order, approve their composition and position, and ensure their functioning;

10) ensure the implementation and coordination of State policy in the field of protection of children's rights;

11) carry out the formation, monitoring of the implementation and evaluation of the results of the state social order in the field of crime prevention in accordance with the established procedure;

12) ensure the organization of legal education of citizens;

13) determine the types and procedure of encouragement, as well as the amount of monetary remuneration for citizens involved in the prevention of offenses;

14) exercise, in the interests of local government, other powers assigned to local executive bodies by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

2. Local executive bodies of cities, districts (cities of regional significance), akims of districts in the city, cities of regional significance, towns, villages, rural districts:

1) ensure the implementation of measures for the general prevention of offenses and are responsible for its implementation;

2) ensure the organization of legal education of citizens;

3) submit for approval to the relevant local representative bodies the composition of interdepartmental commissions on juvenile affairs and protection of their rights, as well as ensure their functioning;

3-1) form interdepartmental commissions on the implementation of the constitutional principle of Law and Order in the administrative-territorial units defined by paragraph 2 of Article 38 of this Law, approve their composition and position, and ensure their functioning;

4) establish aid organizations and ensure their functioning;

5) take measures to involve citizens in the prevention of offenses;

6) keep records of citizens involved in the prevention of offenses, determine the types and procedure for their encouragement;

7) establish commissions to encourage citizens involved in crime prevention;

8) issue an official warning;

9) form a social infrastructure for minors;

10) organize the provision of special social services to persons (families) who find themselves in a difficult life situation;

11) provide organizational and methodological assistance to non-profit and other organizations whose activities are related to the implementation of measures to prevent offenses, neglect and homelessness, and improve the legal literacy of the population;

12) organize interaction with mobile groups, family support centers, and psychological support centers to identify victims and organize assistance to them;

13) interact with other subjects of crime prevention;

14) create offices for helping child victims of violence;

15) exercise, in the interests of local government, other powers assigned to local executive bodies by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan № 245-VIII LRK of December 30, 2025.

The article was amended and supplemented by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated July 1, 2026, No. 330-VIII SAM

This Law determines legal, economic, social, and organizational bases for the activities of state bodies, the bodies of local self-government, organizations, and citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Prevention of infractions.

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Republic of Kazakhstan

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— Has lost legal force due to the adoption of the new Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 245-VIII ZRK dated December 30, 2025, “On the Prevention of Offenses.”

Article 9. Competence of judicial authorities The Law on the Prevention of Offenses

Judicial authorities:

1) coordinate the activities of state bodies on legal propaganda;

2) conduct a legal examination of draft regulatory legal acts in order to prevent the adoption of norms that contribute to the commission of offenses;

3) excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated January 18, 2012 No. 547-IV (effective after ten calendar days after its first official publication);

4) excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated January 18, 2012 No. 547-IV (effective after ten calendar days after its first official publication);

5) excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated January 18, 2012 No. 547-IV (effective after ten calendar days after its first official publication);

6) inform law enforcement agencies about the facts of upcoming or committed offenses that have become known to them, attributed to the competence of these bodies.;

7) exercise other powers provided for by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated April 29, 2010 No. 271-IV.

This Law defines the legal, economic, social and organizational bases of the activities of state bodies, local governments, organizations and citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the prevention of offenses.

President

Republic of Kazakhstan