Article 3. Basic Concepts

The following basic concepts shall be applied in the present Constitutional Law:

curfew means the time of day during which a ban is established on staying on the streets and in other public places or outside the home without specially issued passes and identity documents;

state of emergency means temporarily imposed in accordance with the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan throughout the territory or in certain areas of the Republic of Uzbekistan, a special legal regime for the activities of government bodies, local government authorities, self-government bodies of citizens, non-state non-profit organizations and other organizations, regardless of the organizational and legal form and forms of ownership, their officials, which allows the establishment of certain restrictions on the rights and freedoms of citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan, foreign citizens and stateless persons, as provided for by this Constitutional Law, as well as the rights of legal entities and imposing additional obligations on them;

borders of territories in which a state of emergency is imposed (hereinafter referred to as territories where a state of emergency is introduced) mean the limits of the state of emergency, covering the entire territory or the territory of one or more administrative-territorial units of the Republic of Uzbekistan or part of them;

State Commission for Ensuring the State of Emergency means a temporary special authority of public administration created by a decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan for the period of the state of emergency;

commandant of the territory means an official who directs the activities of the commandant's office of the territory and exercises unified control of the forces and means that ensure the state of emergency;

Territory commandantʼs office means a temporary special body of public administration, created on the territory where a state of emergency has been imposed, to govern the forces and means that ensure the state of emergency.