Article 27. Conduct of Legal Expertise of Draft Normative Legal Acts by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan and its Territorial Divisions

The Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan shall conduct legal expertise of draft normative legal acts after their agreement with interested organizations and other types of expertise.

The Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan shall conduct a legal expertize of draft normative legal acts, including identifying provisions and norms in them that create conditions for manifestation of corruption, committing other offenses, introducing excessive administrative and other restrictions for physical persons and legal entities, as well as the possibility of codification of legislation with the reflection of the necessary norms in one normative legal act and the abolition of other norms governing the corresponding relations.

Draft laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the course of their legal expertize by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan shall be subject to mandatory assessment to determine their direct effect and the presence of normative legal acts that duplicate or contradict the norms of draft laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan for their subsequent cancellation.

Based on the results of the legal expertize, the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan shall present a conclusion.

Legal expertise of normative legal acts of ministries, state committees and departments shall be carried out by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Legal expertize of draft decisions of local government bodies shall be carried out by the relevant territorial divisions of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan.