Majilis deputies approved the bill on religious activities

The Majilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan at the plenary meeting approved in the second, final reading the draft law “On Amendments and Additions to Some Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Religious Activities and Religious Associations”.

The purpose of the bill is to improve state-confessional relations, specify the rights and obligations of subjects of religious activity, as well as regulate the religious sphere.

The bill provides for 53 amendments and additions to 12 legislative acts (3 codes and 9 laws). As previously reported, the meaning and content of the changes can be generally divided as follows: amendments aimed at ensuring the supremacy of the principles of the secular foundations of the state, preventing the spread in society of the ideology of religious radicalism and extremism; amendments to determine the competence of governmental bodies; amendments to define the responsibility and humanization of administrative legislation.