Article 24. Rights of state bodies providing protection

Bodies making a decision on providing protection shall have right to:

request and receive from state bodies, citizens' self-government bodies, legal entities and individuals required information under applications (notifications) on a threat to security of persons in relation to whom the decision is made on providing protection;

perform legal proceedings or issue required instructions to bodies providing security measures;

seek, as necessary, from bodies providing security measures and bodies providing social protection measures application of additional security measures;

fully or partially cancel security measures and social protection measures subject to approval with bodies providing the specified measures.

Bodies providing security measures shall have the right to:

select required security measures, determine methods for their application, if necessary, change and amend applied security measures;

seek from protected persons observance of terms and conditions of application of security measures in relation to them, and execution of legitimate instructions related to application of the specified measures;

apply to bodies performing pre-investigation check, inquiry, preliminary investigation, a prosecutor or a court that are in charge of criminal proceedings, with a request to apply security measures in performance of legal proceedings, or on their cancellation;

implement law enforcement intelligence operations.

Bodies providing social protection measures shall have the right to:

request from bodies that made a decision on providing protection and from protected persons additional information required to exercise social protection measures;

apply to bodies that made a decision on providing protection with a request on cancellation of social protection measures in case of identifying circumstances that exclude a possibility of applying the specified measures.