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LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

of October 21, 2021 No. ZRU-723

About modification and amendments in some legal acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan in connection with enhancement of the legal basis of procedure for adoption

Accepted by Legislative house on August 16, 2021

Approved by the Senate on September 30, 2021

Article 1. Bring in article 152 of the Family code of the Republic of Uzbekistan approved by the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan of April 30, 1998 No. 607-I (Sheets of Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 1998, appendix to No. 5-6; 2003, No. 1, Art. 8; 2004, No. 1-2, of Art. 18; Sheets of chambers of Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2007, No. 4, Art. 157; 2008, No. 4, Art. 189; 2009, No. 9, Art. 328; 2010, No. 9, Art. of the Art. 334, 335; 2011, No. 9, Art. 252, No. 12/2, Art. 363; 2013, No. 4, Art. 98; 2014, No. 1, Art. 2; 2016, No. 9, Art. 276; 2017, No. 9, Art. 510, No. 10, Art. 605; 2018, No. 1, Art. of the Art. 1, 4, No. 4, Art. 224; 2019, No. 8, Art. 469, No. 12, Art. 880; 2020, No. 1, Art. 1, No. 3, Art. 199, No. 10, Art. 593, No. 12, Art. 691; 2021, appendix to No. 4), following changes and amendment:

in part one:

to state the paragraph of the sixth in the following edition:

"the crimes which are earlier condemned for making against life, health, crimes, life-threatening or health, crimes against sexual freedom, against family, youth and morality, against freedom, honor and advantage of the personality (except for slander, insult), against constitutional rights and freedoms of citizens (except for violations of the law about appeals of physical persons and legal entities, violations of the author's or inventive rights), against the world and safety of mankind, against the Republic of Uzbekistan, the crimes connected with plunder of alien property, acquisition or sale of the property got in the criminal way, commercial bribery or bribery of the employee of non-state commercial or other non-state organization, crimes against procedure for management, and also justice, application of tortures and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment crimes against public safety (except for illegal import, sale, acquisition, storage or use of unmanned aerial vehicles, distribution of the untrue data on distribution quarantine and other infections, dangerous to the person, violation of procedure for storage and use of unmanned aerial vehicles, abuse of regulations of safety when implementing research activities, abuse of regulations of labor protection, violation of the sanitary legislation or rules of fight against epidemics, abuses of regulations of safety of mining, construction or explosive operations, fire safety regulations), the crimes constituting drug trafficking or psychotropic substances, crimes against public order and military crimes of official";

add with paragraphs the seventh, eighth and ninth the following content:

"the heavy and especially serious crimes which are earlier condemned for making not relating to the crimes specified in paragraph six of part one of this Article;

concerning which criminal cases for making of crimes, the specified in paragraphs six and the seventh parts one of this Article, are stopped without solution of question of guilt;

having the diseases interfering adoption. The list of these diseases affirms the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan";

the second to state part in the following edition:

"The age difference between adoptive parents and adopted shall not be lower than fifteen years, except as specified the adoption by the stepfather and stepmother or close relatives adopted".

Article 2. Bring in part one of article 22 of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan of January 2, 2014 No. ZRU-364 "About guardianship and custody" (Sheets of chambers of Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2014, No. 1, Art. 1; 2016, No. 12, Art. 383; 2017, No. 6, Art. 300; 2018, No. 7, Art. 431; 2020, No. 1, Art. 3, No. 9, Art. 539; 2021, appendix to No. 4) following changes and amendment:

to state the paragraph of the sixth in the following edition:

"the crimes which are earlier condemned for making against life, health, crimes, life-threatening or health, crimes against sexual freedom, against family, youth and morality, against freedom, honor and advantage of the personality (except for slander, insult), against constitutional rights and freedoms of citizens (except for violations of the law about appeals of physical persons and legal entities, violations of the author's or inventive rights), against the world and safety of mankind, against the Republic of Uzbekistan, the crimes connected with plunder of alien property, acquisition or sale of the property got in the criminal way, commercial bribery or bribery of the employee of non-state commercial or other non-state organization, crimes against procedure for management, and also justice, application of tortures and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment crimes against public safety (except for illegal import, sale, acquisition, storage or use of unmanned aerial vehicles, distribution of the untrue data on distribution quarantine and other infections, dangerous to the person, violation of procedure for storage and use of unmanned aerial vehicles, abuse of regulations of safety when implementing research activities, abuse of regulations of labor protection, violation of the sanitary legislation or rules of fight against epidemics, abuses of regulations of safety of mining, construction or explosive operations, fire safety regulations), the crimes constituting drug trafficking or psychotropic substances, crimes against public order and military crimes of official";

add with paragraphs the seventh and eighth the following content:

"the heavy and especially serious crimes which are earlier condemned for making not relating to the crimes specified in paragraph six of part one of this Article;

concerning which criminal cases for making of crimes, the specified in paragraphs six and the seventh parts one of this Article, are stopped without solution of question of guilt";

to consider the paragraph of the seventh the paragraph the ninth.

Article 3. To provide to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan together with other interested organizations execution, bringing to contractors and explanation among the population of essence and value of this Law.

Article 4. To the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan:

bring decisions of the government into accord with this Law;

provide review and cancellation by state bodies of their regulatory legal acts contradicting this Law.

Article 5. This Law becomes effective from the date of its official publication.

President of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Sh. Mirziyoev

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