Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan
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- Kazakhstan
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Official sourceArticle 53
Parliament at a joint session of the Chambers shall:
1) introduce amendments and supplements to the Constitution pursuant to the proposal of
the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
1-1) adopts constitutional laws;
1-2) conducts a repeated discussion and voting on constitutional laws or articles of a
constitutional law that raised objections from the President of the Republic, within a month
from the day the objections were sent. Failure to comply with this deadline means acceptance
of the objections of the President. If the Parliament, by a three-quarters majority of the total
number of deputies of each of the Chambers, overcomes the objections of the President, the
President signs the constitutional law within one month. If the objections of the President are
not overcome, the constitutional law is considered not adopted or adopted in the wording
proposed by the President;
2) approve the reports of the Government and the Accounts Committee for Control over
Implementation of Republican Budget on the implementation of the national budget. Failure
to approve the report of the Government on the execution of the Republican Budget by
Parliament means that the Parliament expresses a vote of no confidence in the Government;
3) Excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan No.51-VI dated March 10, 2017 (
shall be applied from the date of its first official publication).);
4) take a decision on war and peace issues;
5) take the decision to use the Armed Forces of the Republic pursuant to the proposal of
the President of the Republic to fulfil international obligations for the maintenance of peace
and security;
6) hears the annual messages of the Constitutional Court on the state of constitutional
legality in the Republic;
7) form joint commissions of the Chambers, elect and release their chairpersons from
office, hear reports on the activity of the commissions;
8) exercise other powers assigned to the Parliament by the Constitution.
Footnote. See normative resolution of the Constitutional Council of the Republic of
Kazakhstan No. 5 dated June 26, 2008.
Footnote. Article 53 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan No.254-III
dated May 21, 2007 (shall be applied from the date of its official publication); as amended by
the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 51-VI dated March 10, 2017 (shall be applied
from the date of its first official publication); dated 08.06.2022 (see Article 3 for the
procedure for entry into force).
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