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LAW OF TURKMENISTAN

of March 25, 2002 No. 111-II

About conscription and voisnky service

(as amended on on March 3, 2008)

The citizen of Turkmenistan according to the Constitution of Turkmenistan shall protect the Fatherland Turkmenistan, its sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity, the constitutional system, to observe the Constitution of Turkmenistan and the laws of Turkmenistan, to provide legality and law and order.

Execution by the citizen of Turkmenistan of conscription is its holy patriotic duty before the people and Rodinoyturkmenistan.

This Law performs legal regulation in the field of conscription and military service for the purpose of realization by citizens of Turkmenistan of the constitutional debt and obligation on protection of the Fatherland.

Section I. General provisions

Article 1. Conscription and military service. Military personnel

1. The conscription of citizens of Turkmenistan (further - citizens) provides:

military accounting;

preparation for military service;

revenues to military service;

passing of military service;

stay in inventory;

appeal on military charges and passing of military charges during stay in inventory.

2. During mobilization, in the period of warlike situation and in wartime the conscription of citizens is determined by the laws of Turkmenistan, Presidential decrees of Turkmenistan, other regulatory legal acts of Turkmenistan and also provides:

conscription on mobilization, in the period of warlike situation and in wartime;

passing of military service during mobilization, in the period of warlike situation and in wartime;

military training in the period of warlike situation and in wartime.

3. Citizens are exempted from execution of conscription only on the bases provided by this Law.

4. Citizens have the right to perform the constitutional debt on protection of the Fatherland by revenues to military service according to the procedure, established by this Law.

5. Execution by citizens of conscription is provided within the powers, stipulated by the legislation Turkmenistan, by state governing bodies, local government bodies, the companies, organizations and the organizations, irrespective of legal forms and patterns of ownership (further - the companies, organizations, the organizations), and their officials.

6. Military service - special type of the public service performed by citizens in Armed Forces of Turkmenistan, in border troops of the State Border Service of Turkmenistan, in internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Turkmenistan (further - other troops), in bodies of Committee of homeland security of Turkmenistan, and also in the special military forming created according to the legislation of Turkmenistan (further - military forming).

7. Citizens are called up for military service, and also enlist.

Data on the military personnel are entered in their personal records and documents of military accounting which maintaining and storage are performed according to the procedure, established by regulatory legal acts of Turkmenistan.

Article 2. Legal basis of conscription and military service

The legal basis of conscription and military service are the Constitution of Turkmenistan, this Law, other laws of Turkmenistan and acts of the President of Turkmenistan in the field of defense, conscription, military service and the status of the military personnel, the international agreements of Turkmenistan.

Article 3. The obligations of state bodies, courts, officials of the companies, organizations and organizations connected with execution by citizens of conscription

1. Bodies of the local executive authority, officials of the companies, organizations and organizations shall:

notify citizens on challenges of military commissariat;

provide to citizens possibility of timely appearance on challenges of military commissariat;

send on requests of the military commissioner necessary for entering to documents of military accounting of the information about the citizens arriving on military accounting and staying on the military registry.

Heads of the companies, organizations and organizations performing operation of apartment houses and also house owners shall report in the bodies performing military accounting, the data on changes of list of constantly living citizens consisting or obliged to stay on the military registry in a month.

2. Law-enforcement bodies within the competence shall:

send to seven-day time on requests of the military commissioner of the etrap or city necessary for entering in documents of military accounting of the information about the citizens staying on the military registry;

perform registration and the statement of the citizens obliged to stay on the military registry, only in the presence in their accounting and military documents of marks of military commissariats on statement on military accounting and removal from it;

make search and in the presence of legal causes to detain the citizens evading from military accounting, conscription or military charges, passings of military service, military charges;

report in seven-day time in the corresponding military commissariats about cases of identification of the citizens obliged to consist, but who are not staying on the military registry.

3. Bodies of civil registration shall report in seven-day time in the corresponding military commissariats about modification of civil registrations of the citizens consisting or obliged to stay on the military registry.

4. Bodies of inquiry, pretrial investigation shall report in seven-day time in the corresponding military commissariats about initiation of legal proceedings and their permission concerning the citizens consisting or obliged to stay on the military registry.

5. Courts shall report in seven-day time in the corresponding military commissariats about the sentences which took legal effect concerning the citizens consisting or obliged to stay on the military registry.

6. Medico-social commissions of experts shall report in seven-day time in the corresponding military commissariats about recognition of the citizens consisting or obliged to stay on the military registry, disabled people and disability removal.

Article 4. Providing the actions connected with execution of conscription by the citizens who are not the military personnel

1. State governing bodies, the local executive authority and local self-government for performing medical examination and surveys of the citizens arriving on military accounting, military service, called on military charges and also for appeal of citizens on military service shall provide and equip the necessary territories and rooms, to provide provision of necessary medicines, the medical equipment, tools, economic property, transport, to involve necessary specialists doctors, average medical personnel and technical workers.

2. To the citizen participating in actions for ensuring execution by citizens of conscription its average earnings remain, traveling expenses if participation in the specified actions is connected with departure from the permanent residence, according to the procedure, established by the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan are refunded.

3. Compensation of the losses suffered by the company, organization, the organization and the citizen in connection with providing the actions specified in Items 1 and 2 of this Article is performed according to the procedure, established by the President of Turkmenistan.

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