Exemption from paying state fees in courts

The following are exempted from payment of state fees in courts:

1) plaintiffs – on claims for the recovery of wages and other claims related to labor activity;

2) plaintiffs – authors, performers and organizations managing their property rights on a collective basis – on claims arising from copyright and related rights;

3) plaintiffs – authors of objects of industrial property – on claims arising from the right to an invention, utility models and industrial designs;

4) plaintiffs – on claims for the recovery of alimony;

5) plaintiffs – on claims for compensation for harm caused by injury or other damage to health, as well as the death of the breadwinner;

6) plaintiffs – on claims for compensation for material damage caused by a criminal offense;

7) individuals and legal entities, except for persons not related to the case – for the issuance of documents to them in connection with criminal cases and alimony cases;

8) plaintiffs – on claims for the recovery of funds to the state as compensation for damage caused to the state by violation of the environmental legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

8-1) applicants – on applications of violations of the electoral rights of citizens and public associations, the rights of citizens and public associations to participate in a republican referendum;

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Article 541 is to be supplemented with subparagraph 8-2) in accordance with the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 08.04.2016 No. 491-V (shall be enforced from 01.01.2017).

9) vocational schools and vocational lyceums that provide training for skilled workers and workers with an advanced level of qualification – on claims for the recovery of expenses incurred by the state for the maintenance of students who arbitrarily left educational institutions or were expelled from them;

10) individuals and legal entities who, in cases provided for by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, applied to the court with a statement in defense of the rights and legally protected interests of other persons or the state;

11) an attorney (agent) who filed a lawsuit to return budget loans, as well as state and state-guaranteed loans in accordance with the budget legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

12) plaintiffs participating in the Great Patriotic War and persons equated to them, persons awarded orders and medals of the former USSR for selfless work and impeccable military service in the rear during the Great Patriotic War, persons who have worked (served) for at least six months from 22 June 1941 to May 9, 1945 and not awarded orders and medals of the former USSR for selfless work and impeccable military service in the rear during the Great Patriotic War, disabled people, as well as one of the parents of a disabled person from childhood – in all cases and documents;
13) plaintiffs-oralmans – in all cases and documents related to the acquisition of citizenship of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

14) individuals and legal entities – for filing applications with the court:
– on the cancellation of the court ruling to terminate the proceedings on the case or leave the application without consideration;
– on the postponement or installment plan of the execution of the decision;
– about changing the method and procedure for the execution of the decision;
– on securing claims or replacing one type of security with another;
– on the revision of decisions, rulings or rulings of the court on newly discovered circumstances;
– on the addition or reduction of fines imposed by court rulings;
– on the reversal of the execution of court decisions on the restoration of missed deadlines;
– on the cancellation of a court decision in absentia;
– on placement in special educational organizations and educational organizations with a special regime of detention;
– as well as complaints:
– on the actions of bailiffs;
– private complaints against court rulings on refusal to add up or reduce fines;
– other private complaints against court rulings;
– Complaints against rulings on cases of administrative offenses;
– on the cancellation of a court decision in absentia;

15) bodies of the prosecutor’s office – on all claims;

16) state institutions – when filing claims and appealing court decisions, with the exception of cases of protecting the interests of third parties;

17) public associations of people with disabilities and (or) organizations created by them, in which at least 35 percent of people with hearing, speech, and vision disabilities work – when filing claims in their own interests;

18) policyholders and insurers – on claims arising from compulsory insurance contracts;

19) plaintiffs and defendants – in disputes related to compensation for damage caused to a citizen by illegal conviction, illegal application of a measure of restraint in the form of detention or illegal imposition of an administrative penalty in the form of arrest;

20) the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan, its branches, representative offices and departments – when filing claims on issues within their competence;

21) excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 05.07.2012 No. 30-V (shall be enforced ten calendar days after its first official publication);

22) liquidation commissions of forcibly liquidated financial organizations – on claims, applications, complaints filed in the interests of liquidation proceedings;

22-1) temporary administrations of forcibly liquidated financial organizations – on claims, applications, complaints filed in the interests of the temporary administration;

23) banks authorized in accordance with the legislative act of the Republic of Kazakhstan to implement the state investment policy, – when filing claims:
– on the collection of debts on loans issued on a repayable basis at the expense of budgetary funds;
– on foreclosure on property;
– on the bankruptcy of debtors in connection with their failure to fulfill their obligations under external state and state-guaranteed loans, as well as loans issued at the expense of budgetary funds;

23-1) representatives of bondholders – when filing claims on behalf of bondholders on issues of non-fulfillment by issuers of obligations established by the bond issue prospectus;

24) bankruptcy and rehabilitation managers – when filing claims in the interests of the bankruptcy procedure, rehabilitation procedure within their powers provided for by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on rehabilitation and bankruptcy;

25) internal affairs bodies – when submitting applications on issues related to the expulsion of foreigners and stateless persons from the Republic of Kazakhstan for violation of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.