Article 60. Liability of civil servants On the Civil Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan

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1. Civil servants shall be held legally liable for failure to perform and/or improper performance of their official duties, and for breaches of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the regulations of public authorities as established by the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Legal liability shall cover criminal, administrative, civil and disciplinary liability.

2. Political liability shall arise for the improper implementation and/or failure to achieve the aims and objectives of state policy.

Political liability shall entail the termination of the powers of political civil servants following resignation, loss of confidence, or a decision to terminate their powers taken by an official (or authority) authorised to appoint them to a civil service position and to relieve them of that position.

Political civil servants shall bear political and legal responsibility.

3. Elected civil servants shall be legally liable.

Elected public officials shall also be accountable to the public for failing to achieve the aims and objectives of their election programme and/or for decisions taken or implemented by them within the scope of their official powers; this liability shall encompass the termination of their term of office following resignation or in other circumstances stipulated by the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

4. Administrative civil servants shall bear legal liability.

5. Officials shall be prohibited from issuing orders or instructions that are unrelated to the performance of their official duties and/or intended to contravene the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Following a command or instruction that is known to be unlawful shall not exempt a civil servant from liability.

Should there be any doubt as to the lawfulness of an order or instruction received for execution, a civil servant must immediately report this in writing to their immediate superior and to the head of the department who has issued the order or instruction. Where a civil servant’s immediate superior and the head of the civil servant’s department confirm an order or instruction in writing, the civil servant must comply with them, provided that doing so does not entail actions constituting criminal offences or administrative offences.

The immediate superior or the superior who approved the order or instruction shall be liable for the consequences of a civil servant implementing an unlawful order or instruction.

6. Civil servants shall retain the right to appeal against decisions taken by a public authority in relation to them, or against the actions (or omissions) of its officials, to a higher public authority and/or the competent authority, or to a court.

7. Heads of public authorities and their deputies, akims and their deputies, heads of administrative offices, and heads of structural units of public authorities, unless otherwise stipulated by this Law, shall be held disciplinarily liable under the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan for corruption offences committed by persons directly subordinate to them or under their supervision, provided that all of the following conditions are met:

1) a link has been established between a corruption offence and culpability for the failure to perform, or the improper performance of, official duties relating to the prevention of corruption offences;

2) there is a final and binding court ruling holding the persons in question criminally liable for a corruption offence, or the criminal proceedings for the commission of a corruption offence have been discontinued by a criminal prosecution authority or a court pursuant to paragraphs 3), 4), 9), 10), 11) and 12) of part one of Article 35 or Article 36 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

8. A civil servant shall be held financially liable for damage caused to a public authority in the circumstances and to the extent prescribed by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

9. A civil servant must compensate a public authority for any direct and actual loss caused to it.

10. A civil servant shall not be held financially liable for damage caused to a public authority if the damage resulted from force majeure or a state of necessity, legitimate self-defence, or the failure of the public authority to fulfil its duty to ensure appropriate conditions for the safekeeping of public property entrusted to the civil servant.

Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan № 290-VIII ZRK of 19 May 2026

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Article 60. Resignation and dismissal of political civil servants The Law on the Civil Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan

1. Resignation is the termination of the performance of duties in a relevant public position by a political civil servant, carried out on the basis of his written application.

2. The resignation is accepted or a reasoned refusal is given by a state body or an official who appointed (elected) a political civil servant to this public position. The decision to accept or refuse to resign is made within one month from the date of submitting a written application. In case of refusal to resign, a political employee must continue to perform his official duties and has the right to be dismissed.

In case of refusal to resign, a political civil servant may be brought to disciplinary responsibility in accordance with the law by decision of the person (body) that made the decision to refuse to resign.

At the same time, a political civil servant is brought to disciplinary responsibility in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan if there are any of the following grounds during the period of his activity:

1) when a directly subordinate employee commits a corruption offense on a large or especially large scale;

2) when a corruption offense is committed by a directly subordinate employee, if it has been committed repeatedly;

3) when two or more directly subordinate employees commit a corruption offense.

3. Political civil servants shall submit and resign on the grounds and in accordance with the procedure established by the Constitution, this Law and other legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

If the grounds for resignation are not provided for by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, political civil servants are dismissed on the general grounds provided for by this Law or the labor legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

3-1. Political civil servants specified in the sub-paragraphs 1), 2), 3), 4), 4-1) and 5) of this paragraph, resign if, after three months from the date of their appointment, a corruption offense has been committed.:

1) the head of the central state body − when committing a corruption crime by his deputy, directly subordinate to a political civil servant, the head of the staff or the head of the regional, city of republican significance or the capital of the territorial subdivision of the central state body;

2) akim of a region, a city of republican significance or the capital − when committing a corruption crime by his deputy, directly subordinate to a political civil servant, chief of staff or akim of a district (city of regional significance), district in the city, with the exception of the elected akim ;

3) deputy head of the central state body − when committing a corruption crime by the head of the department supervised by him, an independent structural unit;

4) deputy akim of the region, city of republican significance or capital − when committing a corruption crime by the head of the executive body supervised by him, funded from the local budget;

4-1) the head of the office of the akim of the region, the city of republican significance and the capital − when committing a corruption crime by his deputy, the head of the executive body supervised by him, funded from the local budget, the head of the directly subordinate structural unit of the office of the akim of the region, the city of republican significance and the capital;

5) akim, with the exception of the persons specified in subparagraph 2) of this paragraph, − for the commission of a corruption offense by his deputy, the head of the akim's office, the head of the executive body supervised by him, funded from the local budget.

Political civil servants shall resign on the grounds and in accordance with the procedure provided for in part one of this paragraph, within ten calendar days after the entry into force of a court verdict or the termination of a criminal case by a criminal prosecution body or court on the basis of paragraphs 3), 4), 9), 10), 11) and 12) the first part of Article 35 or Article 36 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The specifics of the resignation of elected akims who are political civil servants are regulated by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Local Public Administration and Self-Government in the Republic of Kazakhstan"

3-2. The appointment of a political civil servant to another political public position does not release him from the obligation to resign for committing a corruption offense by a direct subordinate employee at the former place of work of the political civil servant during his activity on the grounds and in accordance with the procedure provided for in paragraph 3-1 of this article.

4. Gross violation of official powers, commission of misconduct incompatible with public service may not serve as grounds for the resignation of a political civil servant, but are grounds for dismissal. The grounds and procedure for dismissal of political civil servants are determined by the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

5. Political civil servants appointed by the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan may be dismissed by decision of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan due to loss of confidence for non-fulfillment or improper fulfillment of their official duties.

The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated November 23, 2015 No. 416-V SAM.

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