YEREVAN, MARCH 18, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA National Assembly on March 18 passed a number of bills and legislative packages (discussed on the same day), by which amendments and additions are made to some laws. In particular, a package of government-proposed amendments to the RA Code of Administrative Infractions, the RA Criminal Code, and the RA Law on Currency Exchange Regulation and Control was passed in second reading and completely. Based on it, greater responsibility is envisaged with respect to persons who violate the requirements of the currency legislation. The bill on amendments to the Law on State Registration of Property Rights was passed in second reading and completely, by which the provisions stipulating the grounds for appointment and dismissal of heads of the State Cadastre of Real Estate and its territorial units were declared invalid, with the aim of eliminating the possible contradictions to the RA Law on Civil Service. The parliament also passed in first reading the government-proposed bill on an amendment to the RA Law on Provision of Apartments Built for Refugees Displaced from the Republic of Azerbaijan in 1988-1992 to Refugees with the Right of Ownership. According to the main speaker, first deputy minister of territorial administration Vache Terterian, the studies show that within the period envisaged by law, not all refugees have applied for being provided the apartments they occupy with the right of ownership, so in order to solve the problem of privatization, it is proposed extending the deadline for presenting applications until June 30, 2010.

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