Government cancels 357 acts to get rid of bureaucratisation

The government of Kazakhstan has abolished 357 normative acts passed from 1991 to 2002 as a part of de-bureaucratisation and systematisation of the current subordinate legal base, says a report circulated by the prime minister's press service after a meeting yesterday, February 8, in Astana. By the same government decision the action of 60 orders of other state authorities passed from 1994 to 2000.

As of 8 February, 10.24 thousand current government decrees, 1.46 thousand departmental acts, 22.6 thousand decisions of executive authorities were revised as per an order by Danial Akhmetov, prime minister of RK "On measures for improvement of normative legal acts". In total 34.3 thousand documents were revised.

The majority of the cancelled documents contain outdated norms or they duplicate norms of previously passed acts. Also orders related with medium and small business and issued by unauthorised bodies have been abolished, the press service says in its report.