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What should be the immunity?

Комитет по законодательству, правоохранительным органам, обороне, безопасности, миротворческой деятельности, защите прав и свобод граждан

05.04.2016

The Constitution PMR enshrines the status of immunity for the President, judges and deputies of the Supreme Council. Recently the public interest artificially became more in the situation, which have the legislators. Attention is paid to the involvement of deputies of liability imposed by the courts. Deputies of the Supreme Council decided to put the dot the i in this matter. A parliamentary package of legislations, which proposes to bring existing legislation into conformity with the norms of the legal position of the Constitutional Court, presented in the form of regulations. The legislative initiatives we are talking about the fact that the member of the Supreme Council under any circumstances cannot be held accountable for the opinions expressed by them or received in the course of the parliamentary activities of the decision. In case where the deputy commits an offense, he may be liable on general grounds. It has the right to initiate an administrative case prosecutor, criminal - Chairman of the Investigative Committee.

Amendments to existing legislation are formed in respect of persons who have held the post of head of state, Vice-President, Chairman of the Supreme Council and stop the execution of its powers. Under the law-in-draft, they cannot be criminally or administratively liable for acts committed by them during the execution of their powers, as well as arrested, detained, searched, examined, questioned without the consent of the Supreme Council.

The law-in-draft was supported by deputies of the Committee on Legislation.