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Article 52 1. Excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated No. 254-III dated May 21, 2007 (shall be applied from the date of its official publication). 2. Deputies of Parliament are obliged to take part in its work. Voting in Parliament shall be carried out by the deputy only in person. The absence of a deputy without a clear reason at meetings of the Chambers and their bodies more than three times, as well as the transfer of the right to vote, entails the application to the deputy of statutory measures of punishment. 3. A deputy of Parliament shall not have the right to be a deputy of another representative body, occupy other paid positions, except teaching, research, and creative activities, be engaged in entrepreneurial activity, be a member of a governing body or a supervisory board of a commercial organization. Violation of this rule shall entail the termination of a deputy's powers. 4. A deputy of Parliament during the term of his office may not be arrested, subject to detention, measures of administrative punishment imposed judicially, charged with criminal liability without the consent of a respective Chamber except for cases of being detained at the scene of a crime or the commission of serious crimes. 5. The powers of a deputy of the Parliament shall be terminated in cases of resignation, death, being recognized as incapable, dead or untraceable by a valid judgment of the court, and in other cases stipulated by the Constitution and the Constitutional Law. A deputy of the Parliament shall be deprived of his mandate in cases of: 1) his departure for permanent residence beyond the Republic of Kazakhstan; 2) the entry into force against him of a conviction rendered by a court ; 3) loss of citizenship of the Republic of Kazakhstan. A deputy of the Mazhilis of the Parliament loses his mandate in case of: 1) withdrawal or expulsion of a deputy from the political party from which, in accordance with the constitutional law, he was elected on the basis of a party list; 2) termination of the activities of a political party from which, in accordance with the constitutional law, a deputy was elected on the basis of a party list; 3) recall by voters, in the manner determined by the constitutional law, of a deputy elected in a single-mandate territorial constituency. The powers of appointed deputies of the Senate of Parliament may be terminated early by the decision of the President of the Republic. The powers of the deputies of Parliament and the Mazhilis of Parliament shall be terminated early in cases of dissolution of Parliament and the Mazhilis of Parliament respectively. 6. Preparation of issues concerning the application of penalty measures to the deputies, their compliance with the requirements of item 3 of this article, rules of deputy ethics, as well as termination of the deputies' powers and deprivation of their powers and deputy inviolability, shall be imposed by the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Footnote. See the resolutions of the Constitutional Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 7/2 dated May 17, 2001; No. 19/2 dated December 13, 2001; No. 10 dated January 30, 2003; No. 1 dated February 11, 2003; No. 5 dated May 12, 2003; No. 9 dated August 25, 2004. Footnote. Article 52 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 284-I dated October 7, 1998; No.254-III dated May 21, 2007(shall be applied from the date of its official publication); dated 08.06.2022 (shall be enforced from 08.06.2022).