LEGISLATIVE FUNCTION OF THE PARLIAMENT: SOME OF THE ISSUES OF SUBSTANTIVE COMPETENCE

Authors

  • Leila Telmanovna Zhanuzakova Institute of Legislation and Legal Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan
  • Bagdad Кabylkadyrovich Nurgazinov Institute of Legislation and Legal Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan
  • Alipasha Agakhanoviсh Karaev Institute of Legislation and Legal Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52026/1994-408Х_2020_62_4_25

Keywords:

President, Parliament, Senate, Majilis, deputies, government, constitutional Council, public administration, Parliamentarism

Abstract

In Kazakhstan, with the adoption of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan of August 30, 1995, there was a transition to the concept of rational parliamentarism, according to which the Parliament is endowed with strictly defined competence in the field of legislative activity. This practice has found its constitutional design in Section 4 «Parliament», as well as in the Constitutional Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan «On Parliament and the Status of its Deputies» dated October 16, 1995 № 2529.

In accordance with the legislation, the legislative competence of the Parliament is its authority in strictly defined areas of activity listed in paragraph 3 of Article 61 of the Constitution. According to the Constitution, the implementation of the legislative function is ensured in the framework of the adoption of the law «On amendments and additions to the Constitution, the adoption of constitutional and other laws, or the latest amendments».

In accordance with paragraph 3 of article 61 of the Constitution the Parliament may make laws setting out the basic principles and rules regulating the most important public relations, specified in the paragraph above, and other relations shall be regulated by legislative acts, i.e. acts of the President and the government. Legislative regulation is a major function of the Legislative point of power, process and target potential influence of Parliament on the most important spheres of public relations in order to streamline and normative character.

Author Biography

Leila Telmanovna Zhanuzakova, Institute of Legislation and Legal Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Chief researcher of the Department of constitutional, administrative legislation and public administration of the Institute legislation and legal information of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Deputy Director of the research Institute of law of the University «Turan», doctor of law, professor

Published

30.09.2020

How to Cite

Zhanuzakova Л. Т., Nurgazinov Б. К., & Karaev А. А. (2020). LEGISLATIVE FUNCTION OF THE PARLIAMENT: SOME OF THE ISSUES OF SUBSTANTIVE COMPETENCE. Scientific and Legal Journal «Bulletin of the Institute of Legislation and Legal Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan», 4(62). https://doi.org/10.52026/1994-408Х_2020_62_4_25