Regional Law No. 18-KZ “On some issues in the field of protection of population and territory against natural and technological disasters”.

This Regional Law regulates some issues in the sphere of protection of the population and territory against natural and technological disasters. The main purposes shall be set forth as follows: (a) prevention of the outbreak of natural and technological disasters; (b) reduction of damages in case of the outbreak of natural and technological disasters; (c) mitigation of the consequences of natural and technological disasters; (d) delimitation of powers between state bodies in the field of protection of population and territory against natural and technological disasters; and (e) determination of some functions of local government in the field of protection of population and territory against natural and technological disasters. Regional executive bodies and local government must timely and reliably inform the public through the mass media, including the use of specialized technical means of warning and informing the population in places of mass presence of people, and by other means on the status of protection of the population and territories from emergency situations and the measures taken to ensure their safety, on foreseeable and resultant emergency situations, and on methods and ways to protect the population against them.