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LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

of July 11, 1997 No. 151-I

About languages in the Republic of Kazakhstan

(as amended on 17-03-2025)

The preamble is excluded according to the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan of 13.01.2025 No. 157-VIII ZRK

Chapter 1. General provisions

Article 1. The basic concepts used in this Law

In this Law the following basic concepts are used:

1) diaspora - part of the people (ethnic community) living out of the country of its historical origin;

1-1) signs - information on the name and kind of activity of physical persons and legal entities, including means of their individualization, placed within entrance to the building on number of entrances to it and (or) on entrance of barrier of the occupied territory, and also roofs and facades within buildings, extensions to them and shoddy constructions of physical persons and legal entities in places of their actual stay and sales of goods, performance of works and rendering services;

1-2) authentic transfers of the text - transfer of the text into other language which is permanently keeping sense and contents of the original;

2) onomastics - the Section of linguistics studying own names, history of their origin and transformation;

3) the onomastichesky commission - the advisory advisory body developing offers on forming of single approaches according to the name and renaming of administrative and territorial units, components of settlements, the airports, ports, railway stations, railway stations, stations of the subway, bus stations, bus stations, physiographic and other objects of state-owned property in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan, to refining and change of transcription of their names and assignment of own names of persons to the state legal entities, legal entities with participation of the state and also to recovery and preserving historical names as component of historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

3-1) authorized body in the field of onomastics - the central executive body performing management and cross-industry coordination in the field of onomastics;

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