The following basic concepts are used in this Law:
1) peaceful assembly - a public event that is peaceful, non-violent and unarmed in nature,
does not pose a threat to the interests of state security, public order, health protection,
protection of the morals of the population, the rights and freedoms of others, held in the form
of a meeting, meeting and demonstration, processions and picketing by citizens of the
Republic of Kazakhstan;
2) participant of a peaceful assembly - a citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan who
voluntarily takes part in a peaceful assembly;
3) a specialized place for organizing and holding peaceful assemblies - a public place or a
route determined by the local representative body of a city of republican significance, the
capital or a district (city of regional significance) for holding peaceful assemblies;
4) organizer of a peaceful assembly - an adult citizen or a group of adult citizens of the
Republic of Kazakhstan, or a legal entity registered in the manner prescribed by the
legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, initiating a peaceful assembly, organizing its
holding and leading the peaceful assembly and its participants;
5) demonstration - the movement of a citizen or a group of citizens of the Republic of
Kazakhstan at a certain time along a certain route for the purpose of public expression of
opinion on socially significant issues and (or) actions (inaction) of persons and (or) bodies,
organizations, carried out using vehicles, with or without the use of sound-amplifying
technical means, posters, banners and other means of visual agitation, with or without raising
demands;
6) local executive body - a collegial executive body headed by the akim of the city of
republican significance and the capital, district (city of regional significance), exercising,
within its competence, local state administration and administration itself in the
corresponding territory;
7) meeting - the joint presence of citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan in a certain place
at a certain time for the purpose of collective public discussion of socially significant issues
and (or) actions (inaction) of persons and (or) bodies, organizations;
8) rally - the joint presence of citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan in a certain place at
a certain time for public expression of opinions on socially significant issues and (or) actions
(inaction) of persons and (or) bodies, organizations, carried out using sound-amplifying
technical means, posters, banners and other means of visual campaigning or without it, with
the presentation of demands or without it;
9) approval of the application - a document issued by the local executive body for a
peaceful assembly in the form of a demonstration, procession;
10) picketing - the presence of one citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan in a certain
place at a certain time for the purpose of public expression of opinion on socially significant
issues and (or) actions (inaction) of persons and (or) bodies, organizations, carried out
without movement and without the use of sound-amplifying technical means, with the use of
posters, banners and other means of visual campaigning or without it;
11) notification - a preliminary notification of the intention to hold a peaceful assembly in
the form of a picketing, assembly or rally in a certain place and at a certain time, sent by the
organizer of the peaceful assembly to the local executive body;
12) march - the passage of a citizen or a group of citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan
without using vehicles at a certain time along a certain route for the purpose of public
expression of opinion on socially significant issues and (or) actions (inaction) of persons and (
or) bodies, organizations, carried out using sound-amplifying technical means, posters,
banners and other means of visual agitation or without it, with or without raising demands.