Issuance of the determination for the buildings’ (structures’) repurposing (functional assignment’s changing) to the religious buildings (structures)

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4. Fill in the fields of request;

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Documents required for submission to "Government for Citizens" Public Corporation":

1. Application. 

2. Letter of consent of the owner to convert the building (structure) into a religious building (structure) (provided in the case of rented premises.

3. The explanatory notes on the conversion of buildings (structures) religious building (structure) in an arbitrary form, signed by the head of a registered religious associations (including the names of religious buildings (structures) and religious associations, to whom it would belong to, objectives of conversion, the number of parishioners in need of spiritual needs in the area, the candidacy of the priest religious buildings (facilities).

4. A copy of the decision of the Assembly (gathering) of local community or decision of the meeting of owners of premises (apartments) in force on the territory where you intend the change the building (construction), the consent to the conversion to an iconic building or structure (subject to availability of houses bordering it (including, if the border runs easement, road) with the territory pereprofilirovaniju religious buildings (facilities).

1) if the activity of religious associations is aimed at the set of supremacy of one religion in the state, the incitation of religious hatred or discord, including those associated with violence or calls for violence and other illegal actions;
2) if the activity of religious associations is aimed at coercing the citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan, foreigners and stateless persons in the perception of their attitude towards the religion, participation or non-participation in the activity of religious association, religious rites and (or) religion mentorship;
3) if the activity of religious associations are aimed at the violence against the citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan, foreigners and stateless persons or otherwise cause of harm to the health or dissolution of marriage between the spouses (breakup of a family) or termination of the family relations, cause of harm to the morality, the violation of rights and freedoms of a man and citizen, the incitation of citizens to the refusal to fulfill their duties stipulated by Constitution and laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and other infringements of legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
4) if the activity of religious associations is aimed at forced involvement of citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan, foreigners and stateless persons, including through charitable activities, and (or) preventing them from quitting the religious association, including through the use of blackmail, violence or threat of violence, using material or other dependence of citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan, foreigners and stateless persons, or through deception;
5) if the activity of religious associations is aimed at coercing the participants (members) of the religious association and religious followers to alienate their property in favor of a religious association, its leaders and other participants (members);
6) if the activity of religious associations is aimed at inducing them to make decisions and perform actions using religion and religious beliefs that are clearly capable of disorganizing the activity of public bodies, disrupting their smooth functioning, and reducing the degree of governability in the state;
7) the set of the unreliability of the documents submitted by the service recipient and (or) data (information) contained therein to receive the public service,;
8) the non-compliance of the service recipient and (or) submitted materials, objects, data and information required for the public service provision with the requirements established by regulatory legal acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
9) a negative response from an authorized public body to the enquiry for “no objection” required to provide the public service, as well as a negative conclusion of the examination, study or inspection;
10) in relation to the service recipient there is a court decision (sentence) that has entered into legal force prohibiting the activity or certain activity types that require the public service receipt;
11) in relation to the service recipient there is a court decision that has entered into legal force, on the basis of which the service recipient is deprived of a special right associated with the public service receipt;
12) the absence of consent of the service recipient provided in accordance with Article 8 of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Personal Data and Their Protection", to access sensitive personal data that are required to provide the public service.

• appeal;
• initiative of an administrative body or official.

 General requirements for the appeal

The appeal submitted in hard copy or electronic form shall indicate:

• Full name, IIN, postal address of a natural person, BIN of a legal entity;
• name of administrative body, official to whom the appeal is submitted;
• the essence of an appeal;
• date of filing an appeal;
• signature of the applicant or his representative;
• other information provided for by legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

If the administrative procedure is on a paid basis, the applicant must submit a document confirming the payment.

Source: Administrative Procedural Code of Republic of Kazakhstan,
The Law of the RK "On Public services"