of July 14, 2021 No. 1637-IX
About modification of some legal acts of Ukraine concerning providing to the detainee, the suspect, the person accused condemned the rights to legal assistance
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine decides:
I. Make changes to the following legal acts of Ukraine:
1. In the Penitentiary code of Ukraine (The sheet of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 2004, Art. No. 3-4, 21):
1) in Article 8:
the second to state part in the following edition:
"2. The right to legal assistance, confidential legal advice bureaus (appointment) to the defender (defenders) in criminal proceedings, the lawyer (lawyers), the legal representative (legal representatives) who (which) represents (represent) person by hearing of cases about administrative offenses, administrative, civil, economic cases in court, the lawyer (lawyers), the specialist (specialists) in the field of the right which (which) represents (represent) person in the European Court of Human Rights, and also if the convict is minor, - with the () the legal representative (legal representatives) is guaranteed to the convict.
Persons determined by paragraph one of this part have the right to appointment to one convict. The appointment to two and more condemned at the same time is not allowed.
The convict has the right to such appointment no more than with two persons determined by paragraph one of this part, at the same time.
Also condemned persons who are on treatment in healthcare institutions, placed in the disciplinary isolation center, punishment cell or the room of chamber type (solitary confinement), according to the procedure, determined by this Code have the right to appointment to persons determined by paragraph one of this part.
The convict has the right to appointment to persons determined by paragraph one of this part without restriction of time and quantity in working, output, festive, non-working days at any time from 8 to 20 o'clock on own initiative and/or initiative of person (persons) on appointment to whom (which) he has the right (person (persons) which, (which) came (profits) to him).
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