LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF TAJIKISTAN

of July 23, 2016 No. 1338

About humanitarian antimine activities

Accepted by the Resolution MH MOPT of May 27, 2016, No. 455

Approved by the Resolution MM MORT of July 15, 2016, No. 264

This Law establishes legal and organizational basis of humanitarian antimine activities and is directed to regulation of the relations connected with these activities.

Chapter 1. General provisions

Article 1. Basic concepts

In this Law the following basic concepts are used:

- humanitarian antimine activities - complex of the actions connected with mine clearing, the notification of the population about danger of mines, assistance to persons, injured from min. and unexploded ammunition, promotion of prohibition on use of antipersonnel mines and destruction of their inventories which are carried out for the purpose of decrease in impact of harm from the mines on social and economic condition and the environment performed by budgetary, extrabudgetary funds and with attraction of the help of the humanitarian organizations;

- mine clearing - complex of the actions connected with liquidation of danger of min. and unexploded ammunition, including public relations, technical and nontechnical researches, marking, neutralization, documentation after mine clearing and transfer cleared the territory;

- mine - the ammunition intended for installation underground or on its surface for the purpose of harming the person and the equipment;

- antipersonnel mine - the mines intended for harming the person;

- unexploded ammunition - explosive ammunition which was used, but for different technical or other reasons did not blow up;

- the dangerous territory - the site which is dangerous owing to presence or expected presence of min. and unexploded ammunition;

- the sapper - professionally prepared physical person who is engaged in mine clearing;

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