Penal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Criminal legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan consists of this Penal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Other Laws, providing criminal responsibility shall subject to application only after their inclusion in this Code.

This Code shall be based on the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan and generally recognized principles and regulations of international right. Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan has supreme legal force and direct effect on the entire territory of the Republic. In the case of contraventions between regulations of this Code and Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the provisions of the Constitution act. The regulations of this Code, recognized as unconstitutional, as well as derogating from the rights and liberties of an individual and a citizen, vested by Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan shall lose legal force and not subject to application. Regulatory resolutions of the Constitutional Council and the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan shall be a component part of criminal legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

International treaties, ratified by the Republic of Kazakhstan, shall have priorities before this Code and applied immediately, except the cases unless the international treaty that its application requires the issuance of law.