Legal Encyclopedia. The letter K

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

- Any change in the text of Chapter. 3-8 of the Constitution.

The procedure and conditions of application, acceptance, approval and entry into force of the KP to the Constitution of the Russian Federation are regulated by the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the federal law.

Revision of the Constitution means the adoption of a new constitutional act, as the basis for the revision of the provisions that are the heads of securing the basics of the federal structure; the main provisions of the President of the Russian Federation activities of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the Russian Government; judicial authority in the Russian Federation, and bases of local government in the Russian Federation.

The proposal for the amendment of the Constitution of the Russian Federation introduced to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation by the President of the Russian Federation, Federation Council, State Duma,

Russian Government, the legislative (representative) bodies of subjects of the Russian Federation, as well as a group of no less than one-fifth of the members of the Federation Council and State Duma deputies of the Russian Federation the draft law on the amendment to the Constitution, implying an exception addition, a new version of any of the the provisions of Chapter. 3-8 of the Constitution.

The proposal for an amendment to the Constitution of the Russian Federation must contain either the text of a new article (part or paragraph of the article) of the Constitution, or the text of the new version of the article (part or paragraph of the article) of the Constitution, or the exclusion of article (part or paragraph of the article) of the Constitution.

Along with the draft law of the Russian Federation of the Russian Federation, KP presented the rationale for the adoption of the amendment, as well as a list of Russian laws, federal constitutional laws, federal laws, cancellation, modification, addition, or the adoption of which will require the adoption of this amendment.

Review of the State Duma of the Russian Federation the draft law for the amendment of the Constitution of the Russian Federation carried out in three readings.

The draft law of the Russian Federation for an amendment to the Constitution of the RF State Duma shall be considered approved if voted for its approval at least two thirds of the total number of deputies of the State Duma.

Approved by the State Duma a draft law on the amendment to the Constitution of the Russian Federation within 5 days from the date of approval is sent to the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

RF Law on amendment of the Constitution of the Russian Federation shall be considered adopted if voted for its approval of not less than three-fourths of the total number of members of the Federation Council.

In case of rejection by the Federation Council of the RF Law on the amendment to the Constitution of the Russian Federation Council has the right to submit to the State Duma a proposal to establish a conciliation commission.

The Law on Amendment to the Constitution of the Russian Federation sent no later than 5 days from the date of its adoption by the legislative (representative) bodies of Russian Federation subjects for consideration.

The legislative (representative) body of the subject of the Russian Federation alone is obliged to consider the law on the amendment to the Constitution of the Russian Federation not later than one year from the date of its adoption, and then issue a decree on the law on the amendment to the Constitution and send it to the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. The Federation Council at its next meeting following the date of expiry of the Legislative

(Representative) bodies of subjects of the Russian Federation Law on the amendment to the Constitution, establishes the results of this review.

approval of a legislative

(Representative) bodies of at least 2/3 of the subjects of the Russian Federation of the Russian Federation Law on the Amendment of the Constitution of the Russian Federation within 7 days from the date when the results of its consideration of legislative (representative)

bodies of the RF subjects directed by the Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation to the President for signature and publication.

President within 14 days of receipt of the law on the amendment to the Constitution of the Russian Federation signs it and carries out official publication.

At the official publication of the amendment to the law of the Constitution shall include the name of the law, the date of its approval by the State Duma, the Federation Council, the legislative (representative)

bodies of the RF subjects, the date of its signing by the President of the Russian Federation and the registration number. The Law on Amendment to the Constitution of the RF comes into force after its official publication, unless another effective date is not set by law.