Article 16. Registration of Statutes of Religious Organisations

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 492.

Article 15. Religious Organisations as Legal Entities

The religious organisations shall be recognised to be legal entities from the moment of registration of their statutes (regulations).

The religious organisations as legal entities shall exercise rights and fulfill duties in accordance with the legislation and their statutes (regulations).

In order the religious community may get the legal capacity of a legal entity, the citizens-founders in the number of at least ten persons at least eighteen years old residing in the same point or in adjacent points shall present the application with the enclosure of the statute (regulations) to the city (town) or district executive committee at the place of planned activities of the community. Should the religious community belong to particular religious Organisation, this fact shall be indicated in the statute and confirmed by the respective religious board or centre.

The city (town) or district executive committees shall consider the application and send the same to the respective regional (Oblast) executive committee or the Minsk City Executive Committee with their conclusion within two weeks.

After receiving the materials presented for the registration, the regional (Oblast) executive committees or Minsk City Executive Committee shall consider them and take the decision on the registration or refusal of the registration of the statute (regulations) and inform the religious Organisation thereof.

In case of absence of the confirmation as specified in the first part of the present Article, the regional (Oblast) executive committees or Minsk City Executive Committee shall be entitled to request additional materials and obtain the conclusions of the specialists. In this case the decision shall be taken within three months.

The religious associations, centres, boards and religious fraternities, cloisters, missions, ecclesiastical educational institutions created by them shall present their statutes (regulations) for registration to the state body of the Republic of Belarus for the affairs of religions which shall take the decision within one month.