Kazakhstan Introduces Changes To Administrative Justice

On 17 December 2025, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed amendments aimed at expanding the scope of administrative justice, which will enter into force on 29 December 2025.

The amendments provide for the transfer of certain categories of disputes from the Civil Procedure Code to the Administrative Procedure and Process Code of Kazakhstan (APPC). In particular, the review of cases challenging the legality of regulatory legal acts, previously governed by Chapter 30 of the Civil Procedure Code, has been moved to the field of administrative justice.

Thus, any citizen is entitled to apply to an administrative court by filing:

1. a claim challenging a subordinate regulatory legal act, or;