Article 12. Exemption from payment of state duties for registration of civil status acts

The following shall be exempted from paying the state duty for registration of civil status acts:

1) bodies of public education, interdepartmental commissions on minors' affairs, for issuance of repeated birth certificates for sending orphans and children left without parental care to children's institutions and educational institutions;

2) individuals, for registration of birth, death, for the issuance of certificates to them when changing, supplementing and correcting records of birth certificates in cases of adoption (adoption of a girl), establishing paternity, changing sex, as well as in connection with mistakes made during registration of acts civil status;

3) natural persons, for issuing them, on the basis of a court decision, certificates of divorce with individuals recognized in the established manner as missing or incapacitated due to mental disorder (mental illness or dementia), or with individuals convicted of a crime to imprisonment for a period of at least three years;

4) individuals, for issuance of repeated or replacement of the previously issued death certificates of rehabilitated relatives;

5) Individuals who have suffered as a result of natural and man-made emergencies in the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan or foreign countries, including domestic disasters (fires, collapses, burning of vehicles in residential or non-residential areas) — for the issuance of duplicate certificates.