Administrative law

Administrative law is an independent branch of law regulating relations that arise in organising and carrying out public administration: relations of state bodies with each other, with enterprises and organisations subordinate to them, and with citizens and associations. Its principles are legality, equality of citizens before the law, democracy, humanism, justice and the inevitability of liability for fault. Its sources are the Constitution, constitutional laws and laws, presidential decrees and resolutions, Cabinet resolutions, acts of ministries and agencies, and decisions of local authorities. Its subjects are the President, public administration bodies and their staff, officials of enterprises and organisations, citizens who have reached 16, foreign citizens and stateless persons, and public associations. Central administration bodies include the Cabinet of Ministers, ministries, committees and agencies (in Karakalpakstan, its own Council of Ministers), while at local level the khokimiyat headed by a khokim exercises executive power. The mahalla citizens’ assembly is not a state body but a citizens’ self-government body; public organisations work on a voluntary basis, and their decisions bind only their members. In practice, the Law on Administrative Procedures adopted in 2018 sets how agencies handle citizens’ requests and disputes with state bodies are decided in administrative courts; many services can be obtained through the Unified Interactive Public Services Portal.