Article 15. Exemption from payment of the state duty of certain categories of individuals

The following persons are exempt from paying the state fee for registration at the place of permanent residence and temporary stay:

elderly and disabled people living in nursing homes for the elderly and disabled;

students of boarding schools, academic lyceums and vocational colleges who are fully supported by the state and live in hostels.

The state duty for state registration of dekhkan farms, joint stock companies created on the basis of state enterprises, separate subdivisions of non-state non-profit organizations (representative offices and branches) registered in the Republic of Uzbekistan, as well as associations of private homeowners shall not be collected.

Participants in the war 1941 —1945 are exempted from paying the state duty (patent fee) provided for in subparagraphs "a" — "d" of paragraphs 10 and 11, subparagraphs "a" and "b" of paragraphs 12, 13 and 15 of the Appendix to this Law, or individuals equated to them, as well as individuals with disabilities of group I who are the sole authors of inventions, utility models, industrial designs, selection achievements, topologies of integrated microcircuits, programs for electronic computers and databases and who are requesting a title of protection in their own name.

The following shall be exempted from payment of the state duty for issuing a license for the right to carry out concert and entertainment activities:

1) individuals with disabilities of I and II groups;

2) performers assigned to the IV rating group, studying in educational institutions and receiving the right to carry out concert and entertainment activities for the first time, shall not pay the state duty during the period of study in this educational institution, but no more than one year from the date of obtaining the right to perform concert entertainment activities (subject to the availability of an appropriate supporting document).

Pensioners — payers of the state duty for issuance of a license for the right to carry out concert and entertainment activities shall pay the state duty for the right to carry out concert and entertainment activities in the amount of 50 percent of the established amount.

A notary of a public notary office who has expressed a desire to engage in private practice is exempt from paying the state fee for issuing a license for the right to engage in private notarial activity.