Kazakhstan's Ministry of Agriculture has revised the rules for providing services in land relations after discrepancies were found between the Kazakh and Russian versions of the document, reports infohub.kz.
According to the Administrative Cassation Court, the rules for providing state services in the land sector contained ambiguous interpretations and inconsistencies between the language versions. In particular, discrepancies concerned such popular services as the provision of land plots from village or settlement lands, as well as the coordination of a projected plot with the data of the Unified State Real Estate Cadastre information system.
The court found that the non-identical texts of the bylaw affected not only terminology but also directly influenced the procedure for providing services, the timing of procedures, the list of documents, and even the range of recipients. Such gaps created conditions for ambiguous application of the law, legal uncertainty, and certain risks.
Since regulatory legal acts in Kazakh and Russian must be strictly authentic, the court issued a private ruling addressed to the government and the relevant ministry. In compliance with this ruling, the Ministry of Agriculture promptly developed, coordinated with state and local executive bodies, and adopted a new legal act — Order No. 118 dated April 3, 2026.
The measures taken have fully eliminated semantic and procedural discrepancies between the versions of the bylaws. Now the procedure for obtaining land plots and their coordination has been brought into strict compliance with the principles of transparency and uniformity of law enforcement, and reliable protection of the rights and legitimate interests of citizens and entrepreneurs is ensured, the court assured.