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Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On State Duty"

Year: 2020

Type: Domestic law

Rights Category: Documentation

Description

The Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On State Duty” (January 7, 2020) regulates the payment, calculation, and collection of state duties for various legal and administrative services provided by government authorities. It defines the types of state duties, the procedures for their payment, exemptions, and the responsibilities of individuals and legal entities in fulfilling their obligations. The law aims to ensure the proper functioning of public services by establishing a legal framework for state duty collection, contributing to the state budget while maintaining fairness and accessibility for citizens and businesses.

Selected provisions
Article 5. Objects of Collection

State duty is collected for:

Claims filed in courts for civil cases, lawsuits against decisions of enterprises, institutions, organizations, public associations, and actions (inaction) of their officials that do not arise from administrative and other public legal relations, applications for special proceedings, appeals, cassation, and review complaints against court decisions in civil cases, rulings on case termination, leaving a claim without consideration, imposing judicial fines, applications challenging arbitration court decisions, applications for enforcement orders for the compulsory execution of arbitration court decisions, appeals, cassation, and review complaints against court rulings in civil cases regarding arbitration court decisions and their enforcement, applications for recognition and enforcement of foreign court and foreign arbitration (arbitral) decisions, appeals, cassation, and review complaints against court rulings in civil cases concerning the recognition and enforcement of foreign court and foreign arbitration (arbitral) decisions, as well as for the issuance of duplicates and copies of documents by civil courts.
(Clause 1 of Article 5 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated August 14, 2024, No. ZRU-943 — National Database of Legislation, 14.08.2024, No. 03/24/943/0616)

Claims filed in economic courts, applications for insolvency proceedings, applications for third-party intervention with independent claims on the subject of the dispute, applications for establishing facts significant for the emergence, modification, or termination of the rights of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs in the economic sphere, appeals, cassation, and review complaints against economic court decisions, rulings on case termination, leaving a claim without consideration, imposing judicial fines, applications challenging arbitration court decisions, appealing arbitral awards, applications for enforcement orders for the compulsory execution of arbitration court decisions, appeals, cassation, and review complaints against economic court rulings on arbitration court decisions and their enforcement, applications for recognition and enforcement of foreign court and arbitration (arbitral) decisions, appeals, cassation, and review complaints against court rulings in cases concerning the recognition and enforcement of foreign court and arbitration (arbitral) decisions, as well as for the issuance of duplicates and copies of documents by economic courts.
(Clause 2 of Article 5 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated August 14, 2024, No. ZRU-943 — National Database of Legislation, 14.08.2024, No. 03/24/943/0616)

Applications filed in administrative courts for challenging departmental regulatory legal acts, applications (complaints) challenging decisions, actions (inaction) of republican executive authorities, other bodies authorized to conduct administrative and legal activities, self-government bodies of citizens and their officials, challenging actions (decisions) of election commissions, challenging refusals to perform notarial acts, register civil status records, or actions (inaction) of a notary or official of the civil registry office, challenging refusals of state registration or evasion of state registration within the established time frame, including claims for compensation for damages, appeals, cassation, and review complaints against administrative court decisions, rulings on case termination, leaving a claim without consideration, imposing judicial fines, as well as for the issuance of duplicates and copies of documents by administrative courts.
(Clause 3 of Article 5 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated August 14, 2024, No. ZRU-943 — National Database of Legislation, 14.08.2024, No. 03/24/943/0616)

Notarial acts performed by notaries and consuls of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Registration of civil status records, as well as the issuance of duplicate certificates of civil status registration and certificates due to changes, additions, corrections, and restoration of civil status records.

Issuance of an identification ID card for a citizen of the Republic of Uzbekistan, a biometric passport for a citizen of the Republic of Uzbekistan for travel abroad, as well as a travel document for a stateless person, issuance of entry permits to the Republic of Uzbekistan from abroad, invitation documents to the Republic of Uzbekistan, issuance of an identification ID card to a foreign citizen or stateless person, as well as for reviewing applications for admission, restoration, and renunciation of citizenship of the Republic of Uzbekistan and applications for recognition as a citizen of the Republic of Uzbekistan, registration of permanent and temporary residence for citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan, as well as registration of permanent residence for foreign citizens and stateless persons.

(Clause 6 of Article 5 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated March 14, 2022, No. ZRU-759 — National Database of Legislation, 14.03.2022, No. 03/22/759/0213)

State registration of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs.

Issuance of a hunting permit.

Granting legal protection to inventions, utility models, industrial designs, plant varieties, trademarks, service marks, geographical indications, appellations of origin of goods, topographies of integrated circuits, software for electronic computing machines, and databases.

(Clause 9 of Article 5 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated March 3, 2022, No. ZRU-757 — National Database of Legislation, 04.03.2022, No. 03/22/757/0181)

Processing of exhibition cargo from foreign legal entities, sale of cargo customs declaration forms to foreign legal entities.

Registration of international public organizations, accreditation of employees of non-governmental non-commercial organizations, including religious organizations, representations, and branches of international and foreign non-governmental non-commercial organizations that are foreign citizens, as well as members of their families dependent on them, certification of contracts for the alienation of property subject to special registration, certification of other contracts subject to valuation, registration of marriages between citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan and foreign citizens, as well as marriages between foreign citizens, registration of the dissolution of marriages between citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan and foreign citizens, with persons declared missing or incapacitated due to mental illness or intellectual disability, or with persons sentenced to at least three years of imprisonment.

Issuance and extension of exit or entry-exit visas for foreign citizens and stateless persons, processing of multiple-entry-exit visas for foreign citizens and stateless persons, registration of temporary residence for foreign citizens and stateless persons for the duration of their visa, and extension of temporary residence registration for the period of visa extension, registration of temporary residence for citizens of CIS member states, as well as persons arriving from CIS countries with former USSR passports that do not contain citizenship marks, review and processing of documents for foreign citizens, including CIS nationals, or stateless persons for permanent residence in the Republic of Uzbekistan, issuance of certificates to foreign citizens or stateless persons regarding the loss of a passport or a replacement document.

(Clause 12 of Article 5 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated March 14, 2022, No. ZRU-759 — National Database of Legislation, 14.03.2022, No. 03/22/759/0213)

Accreditation of representative offices of foreign commercial organizations in the Republic of Uzbekistan.
(Clause 13 of Article 5 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated December 6, 2022, No. ZRU-808 — National Database of Legislation, 07.12.2022, No. 03/22/808/1069)

Issuance of licenses and permits for conducting specific types of activities.