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1996];
6 May 1998 [shall come into force on 3 June 1998];
10 June 1999 [shall come into force on 14 July
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20 June 2000 [shall come into force on 21 July
2000];
6 December 2001 [shall come into force on 3 January
2002];
27 June 2002 [shall come into force on 24 July
2002];
7 April 2004 [shall come into force on 4 May 2004];
2 June 2005 [shall come into force on 6 July 2005];
13 October 2005 [shall come into force on 16 November
2005];
15 June 2006 [shall come into force on 11 July
2006];
8 January 2007 [shall come into force on 10 January
2007];
1 March 2007 [shall come into force 3 August 2007];
29 March 2007 [shall come into force on 11 April
2007];
20 November 2008 [shall come into force 1 January
2009];
12 December 2008 [shall come into force on 1 January
2009];
18 June 2009 [shall come into force on 3 July
2009];
29 October 2009 [shall come into force on 1 December
2009];
1 December 2009 [shall come into force on 1 January
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10 December 2009 [shall come into force on 13 January
2010].
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The Saeima1 has adopted and
the President has proclaimed the following Law:
On State Security
Institutions
Chapter One
GENERAL PROVISIONS
1. Section 1. Purpose of this
Law
This Law prescribes the system of State security institutions
and the distribution of competence among the subjects thereof,
the legal basis, purposes and tasks of activities, the
obligations and responsibility thereof, as well as govern the
procedures for the financing, supervision and control of
activities of such institutions.
[27 June 2002]
Section 2. State Security
Institutions
State security institutions are the State institutions laid
down in this Law, which, within the scope of their competence,
carry out intelligence, counterintelligence activities and are
the subjects of investigatory operations.
[27 June 2002; 7 April 2004]
Section 3. Intelligence and
Counterintelligence
(1) [27 June 2002]
(2) Intelligence is the activities of specially authorised
State institutions, the purpose of which is obtaining information
regarding intentions and activities (actions) of foreign
governments, their institutions, organisations or individual
persons, which are or may be directed against the Republic of
Latvia and vitally important State interests thereof.
(3) Counterintelligence is the activities of specially
authorised State institutions, the purpose of which is ensuring
the protection of the State constitutional order, national
independence, national economic, scientific, technical and
military potential, official secrets and vitally important State
interests and security against spying, diversions, sabotage,
terrorist acts and other types of threats, as well as taking
special measures to prevent or terminate such threats or to
eliminate the consequences caused thereby.
(4) Intelligence and counterintelligence activities shall be
conducted according to the competence laid down for each State
security institution in law and on the basis of the decision of
an official of a State security institution.
(5) The content of intelligence and counterintelligence
activities shall be determined by the by-law of intelligence and
counterintelligence activities of the respective State security
institution, which, after co-ordination with the Council of State
Security Institutions, shall be approved by the head of the
respective State security institution.
(6) Intelligence and counterintelligence activities shall be
conducted both by means of the specific intelligence and
counterintelligence activities of the respective State security
institution in accordance with the by-law of intelligence and
counterintelligence activities and by taking the measures of
investigatory operations laid down in the Investigatory
Operations Law.
(7) The results of the measures of investigatory operations
taken within the scope of intelligence and counterintelligence
activities may be used as procedural evidence only upon consent
of the head of the respective State security institution and in
accordance with the procedures laid down in law.
[27 June 2002; 7 April 2004]
Section 4. Legal Basis of Activities
of State Security Institutions
The legal basis of activities of State security institutions
shall be the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia, the National
Security Law, this Law, the Investigatory Operations Law, other
laws and regulatory enactments, as well as international treaties
governing the protection of national security and State economic
sovereignty, and the tasks, obligations and rights of the
subjects ensuring the public safety and order.
[27 June 2002]
Section 5. Basic Principles of
Activities of State Security Institutions
(1) The activities of State security institutions shall be
organised and carried out on a lawful basis, in conformity with
the general human rights, in co-operation with the citizens and
other inhabitants and relying upon their assistance.
(2) Activities of State security institutions shall be aimed
solely at guaranteeing the security of the Republic of Latvia and
they may not threaten the security of other countries.
(3) In carrying out intelligence, counterintelligence or other
activities related to guaranteeing national security, it is
prohibited to cause physical or moral harm to persons, to
endanger the life and health of people, or to threaten to apply
or use physical means of coercion.
(4) The type, scale and intensity of activities of State
security institutions must be commensurate to the type and level
of dangerousness of threat to national security.
(5) Activities of State security institutions shall not be
restricted depending on the citizenship, gender, nationality,
age, place of residence, education, social, service and property
status and office of persons, their political and religious
views, affiliation with parties or other public
organisations.
(6) Officials of State security institutions are prohibited
from directly or indirectly acting in the interests of political
parties, organisations, movements or persons, from involving in
activities of institutions implementing State authority and
administration, Prosecutor's Office and court institutions, as
well as the activities of public, political, religious
organisations and merchants in order to influence or persuade
them, except cases when it is necessary in order to prevent or
detect criminal offences or threats to national security.
(7) No one, except officials who are specifically authorised
for such purpose by law, is entitled to interfere with activities
of State security institutions and their officials, unless such
activities are unlawful. The officials and employees of such
institutions shall be responsible for their activities in
accordance with the procedures laid down in law.
(8) The principle of separation of authority (competences)
laid down in law shall be observed in activities of State
security institutions. The status of employees of such
institutions shall be used solely for the performance of their
lawful obligations. Their activities may only be directed at
achieving the purposes or fulfilling the tasks laid down in this
Law.
[27 June 2002; 7 April 2004; 2 June
2005]
Section 6. Protection of the Rights
and Freedoms of a Person
If a person believes that State security institutions through
their actions have infringed on the lawful rights and freedoms of
a person, such person is entitled to submit a complaint to the
public prosecutor who, after completing an examination, shall
provide an opinion with respect to the conformity of activities
of the official of the State security institution with the law,
or to bring an action to a court.
Chapter Two
COMPETENCE OF THE INSTITUTIONS IMPLEMENTING STATE AUTHORITY AND
ADMINISTRATION IN THE MANAGEMENT OF STATE SECURITY
INSTITUTIONS
Section 7. Competence of the
Saeima
[27 June 2002]
Section 8. Competence of the
National Security Council
[27 June 2002]
Section 9. Competence of the
Cabinet
[27 June 2002]
Chapter Three
ORGANISATION OF STATE SECURITY INSTITUTIONS
Section 10. Main Tasks of State
Security Institutions
(1) The main tasks of State security institutions shall be as
follows:
1) collection, accumulation, analysis of political, economic,
social, military, scientific, technical and other information
related to the threats to national security and ecology and the
use thereof in accordance with the procedures laid down in
law;
2) ensuring the protection of official secrets and other
interests of vital importance to the State;
3) forecasting the threats to national security, drawing up of
proposals, recommendations and programmes on the issues of
national security;
4) preventing or neutralisation of threats to national
security;
5) timely and complete informing of the institutions
implementing State authority and administration regarding any
threats to national security;
6) provision of an opinion on the possibility to issue a
licence for exportation, importation and transit of strategic
materials or weapons. Adverse opinion of the State security
institution may form the grounds for non-issuance of the licence
or cancellation of the licence;
7) submission of information and materials obtained regarding
criminal offences detected in the field of national security to
the Prosecutor's Office or to an investigative institution, the
competence of which includes carrying out of pre-trial
investigation on the particular criminal offence;
8) carrying out of investigation within the scope of
competence determined thereto;
9) co-operation and participation in maintaining world
piece;
10) exchange of classified information within the scope of the
competence determined thereto with foreign institutions,
international organisations and institutions thereof.
(2) [18 June 2009]
[27 June 2002; 7 April 2004; 13
October 2005; 18 June 2009; 10 December 2009]
Section 11. Aggregate of State
Security Institutions
(1) The aggregate of State security institutions shall consist
of:
1) the Constitution Protection Bureau;
2) the Defence Intelligence and Security Service;
3) the Security Police;
[6 May 1998]
(2) The State security institutions indicated in Paragraph one
of this Section shall operate independently, within the scope of
the competence determined thereto.
(3) The Cabinet may also involve other State administrative
institutions in fulfilment and provision of the State security
measures.
[6 May 1998; 10 June 1999; 6
December 2001; 27 June 2002; 7 April 2004]
Section 12. Council of State
Security Institutions
(1) The aggregate of the heads of State security institutions
shall be the Council of State Security Institutions, the head of
which shall be nominated from among the heads of security
institutions.
(2) The Council of State Security Institutions shall:
1) review the priorities of activities of State security
institutions, the requirements and tasks to be set forth for such
institutions;
2) co-ordinate the circulation of information, the procedures
for analysis and use thereof in State security institutions;
3) draw up the draft budget of State security
institutions;
4) aggregate the proposals and requests of State security
institutions, submit and maintain them in the institutions
implementing State authority and administration;
5) review the draft laws and regulations on the issues of
activities of State security institutions;
6) assess the effectiveness of activities of State security
institutions;
7) review and co-ordinate the by-laws of intelligence and
counterintelligence activities of State security
institutions.
(3) The Prosecutor General may participate in the meetings of
the Council of State Security Institutions.
[29 March 2007; 11 April 2007 / See Transitional
Provisions of Law of 29 March 2007]
Section 13. Constitution Protection
Bureau
The Constitution Protection Bureau is a State security
institution under subordination of the Cabinet, the activities of
which are governed by a special law.
[7 April 2004]
Section 14. Defence Intelligence and
Security Service
(1) The Defence Intelligence and Security Service is a State
security institution under subordination of the Ministry of
Defence, carrying out military counterintelligence, intelligence
and other tasks laid down in this Law.
(2) The Defence Intelligence and Security Service shall:
1) obtain and ensure the Ministry of Defence, the institutions
subordinate thereto, other institutions implementing State
authority and administration and the responsible officials
thereof, as well as the National Armed Forces, with intelligence
and counterintelligence information necessary for the operation
thereof;
2) detect and, in co-operation with other State security
institutions, prevent the subversive activities of foreign
special services, as well as organisations or individual persons
within the Ministry of Defence, institutions subordinate thereto
and in the National Armed Forces;
3) take measures for protection of the official secret within
the Ministry of Defence, institutions subordinate thereto and in
the National Armed Forces, and control the fulfilment
thereof;
4) verify the candidates wishing to obtain special permits
(licences) issued by the Ministry of Defence for the performance
of individual types of commercial activity subject to licencing,
and provide an opinion on the issuance of special permits
(licences).
(3) The Defence Intelligence and Security Service shall
operate in accordance with a by-law approved by the Cabinet.
(4) The Defence Intelligence and Security Service, within the
scope of its competence, shall be the subject of investigatory
operations.
(5) [2 June 2005]
(6) [27 June 2002]
(7) The Defence Intelligence and Security Service shall be the
national institution of signals intelligence of the Republic of
Latvia, carrying out and controlling the signals intelligence and
ensuring the protection of the obtained information.
[6 December 2001; 27 June 2002; 7
April 2004; 2 June 2005; 10 December 2009]
Section 15. Security Police
(1) The Security Police is a State security institution under
subordination of the Ministry of the Interior, which performs the
tasks laid down in this Law and is responsible for the fulfilment
thereof.
(2) In the field of national security the Security Police
shall perform:
1) counterintelligence and investigatory operations measures
in order to combat crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide,
organised and economic crime, terrorism, sabotage and other
crimes endangering national security and authority, crimes
committed by organized crime groups, corruption, money forgery,
as well as non-sanctioned distribution of nuclear materials,
narcotic and other (chemical, radioactive) substances of strong
effect or double usage goods, firearms and weapons of another
kind, explosives;
2) counterintelligence and investigatory operations measures
which are necessary for the protection of the Ministry of the
Interior and institutions of the system thereof;
3) protection of the official secret within the competence
laid down in the Law On Official Secrets;
4) co-ordination of activities of State and local government
institutions, as well as other legal persons in the field of
anti-terrorism and the analysis of the State policy in this
field.
(3) The Security Police shall organise and carry out the
measures of protection (safeguarding) of State officials, as well
as representatives of foreign and international organisations and
institutions, except for protection (safeguarding) of such
officials which is provided by the Military Police in accordance
with the National Armed Forces Law. The officials to be protected
by the Security Police, as well as the co-operation with other
State institutions and the procedures for protection
(safeguarding) shall be determined by the Cabinet.
(4) The Security Police shall operate in accordance with the
National Security Law, the Investigatory Operations Law, the Law
On Police, this Law and a by-law approved by the Cabinet.
(5) The Security Police shall be the subject of investigatory
operations.
(6) [13 October 2005]
[27 June 2002; 7 April 2004; 13
October 2005; 20 November 2008]
Section 16. Information Service of the National Guard
Headquarters [6 May 1998]
Section 17. Protection of
Information
(1) It is prohibited for officials and employees serving in
and retired officials and employees of State security
institutions, without a special authorisation of the head of the
institution, to disclose information, which has become known or
available to them due to the fulfilment of their official duties.
Such information in the criminal proceedings may be disclosed
only with a permission of the head of the respective State
security institution.
(2) The officials and employees of State security institutions
shall take an oath of secrecy:
"I, ___________________________, hereby swear that without
special authorisation I shall not disclose or make available to
any institution or individual information, which has become known
or available to me due to the fulfilment of my official duties
___________________________".
(name of the institution)
(3) The aggregate of officials and employees subject to taking
the oath, as well as the procedures for taking the oath shall be
determined by the head of the State security institution.
(4) Persons guilty of breaking the oath shall be held liable
in accordance with the procedures laid down in the rules of
procedure (by-law) and the law.
[27 June 2002; 7 April 2004]
Chapter Four
SERVICE IN STATE SECURITY INSTITUTIONS
Section 18. Service in State
Security Institutions
(1) A person not subject to the restrictions laid down in
Paragraph two of this Section may be an official or an employee
of State security institutions.
(2) A person may not be an official or an employee of State
security institutions, if:
1) he or she is not a citizen of Latvia;
2) he or she does not have at least secondary education;
3) he or she does not know the Latvian language according to
the necessary level of fluency in the official language and at
least one foreign language;
4) he or she is under the age of 18;
5) he or she has been held criminally liable and has been
convicted of an intentional criminal offence, as well as
disclosing of a official secret through negligence, except the
case when the person has been rehabilitated;
6) he or she has been deprived of access to the official
secret;
7) he or she has been dismissed from the office by a court
judgment in a criminal matter;
8) his or her capacity to act is limited in accordance with
the procedures laid down in law;
9) he or she is or has been a permanent or freelance staff
employee of the security service (intelligence or
counterintelligence service) of the U.S.S.R., Latvian S.S.R. or
some foreign state, or an agent, resident or keeper of safe house
(any covert organisation of any form thereof);
10) he or she after 13 January 1991, has worked in the
C.P.S.U. (L.C.P.), the Working People's International Front of
the Latvian S.S.R., the United Council of Labour Collectives, the
Organisation of War and Labour Veterans or the All-Latvia
Salvation of Society Committee.
(3) The basic conditions for appointment to the office or
hiring in State security institutions, the criteria of
professional readiness and other issues related to the service
(work) shall be determined by this Law, as well as the Law On
Official Secrets and other laws governing the activities of State
security institutions, by-laws of such institutions and other
laws and regulations.
(4) Foreign citizens (nationals) and non-citizens of Latvia
may perform the duties of an expert or a consultant of State
security institutions on the basis of an employment contract or
an agreement, only in the following cases:
1) there is an opinion of the head of the State security
institution on the necessity to use professional knowledge of
such persons, and the National Security Committee of the
Saeima has received a respective motivated
application;
2) the conditions provided for in the Law On Official Secrets
have been conformed to;
3) there is a consent of the National Security Committee of
the Saeima in respect to the possibility to use the person
in work in State security institutions.
(5) An official of State security institutions is a
representative of the State authority, and any lawful requests
and orders made or issued by him or her, when fulfilling his or
her office duties, are mandatory for all persons. Defamation of
an official of State security institutions, resisting him or her,
endangering the life or health of an official, as well as action
interfering with fulfilment of his or her office duties, shall be
punished in accordance with the law.
(6) [1 December 2009]
(7) Officials of State Security institutions, without a
consent of the Prosecutor General, shall not be held criminally
liable in the territory of the State, they may not be subject to
detention (including administrative detention), search,
conveyance by force; their residential or office premises or
personal or official vehicles shall not be subject to search or
inspection. The criminal procedural restrictions shall not apply
to such officials in cases when they are caught committing a
criminal offence, regarding which the Prosecutor General and the
head of the respective State security institution must be
informed about within 24 hours.
(8) [20 June 2001]
(9) [1 December 2009]
(10) [1 December 2009]
(11) [1 December 2009]
(12) [1 December 2009]
(13) [1 December 2009]
[10 June 1999; 20 June 2000; 27
June 2002; 7 April 2004; 2 June 2005; 15 June 2006; 1 December
2009]
Section 19. Rights of Officials of
State Security Institutions
(1) Officials of State security institutions have the
right:
1) within the scope of their competence, to receive the
necessary information, documents and other materials from State
and local government institutions, irrespective of the ban of the
use thereof. Information, documents and materials shall be issued
in the requested form and free of charge;
2) within the scope of their competence, to have free access
to all types of State and local government information carriers,
including the materials of electronic data banks, directories,
archives and other documents, and to access them irrespective of
the ban of the use thereof. Getting acquainted with the
information carriers and access thereto shall be ensured in the
requested mode and free of charge;
3) within the scope of their competence, upon request of the
head of the security institution, to freely get acquainted with
all types of information in the registered data bases,
registration of which has been determined in laws and
regulations, irrespective of the belonging thereof, to access
such information and to receive it. Getting acquainted with such
information, access thereto and receipt thereof must be ensured
in the requested scope, mode and free of charge;
4) when fulfilling their official duties and presenting the
certificate of the employee of the State security institution,
without delay and requesting any other documents, to freely
access (enter) the non-residential premises and land plot
territories belonging to institutions, merchants, organisations
and private individuals, the subdivisions of the National Armed
Forces, except the premises and land plot territory of
exterritorial status;
5) if necessary, to be extraordinarily provided with transport
tickets in any type of public transport vehicles, but if there
are no tickets - to be provided with the possibility to enter and
travel by such transport vehicles;
6) in the interests of the service, to use the communications
and mass information means belonging to the State and local
governments, and in exceptional cases - also belonging to private
individuals, free of charge. Expenses for the use of
communications and mass information means belonging to private
individuals shall be reimbursed if requested by the owner;
7) to possess and carry official or personal weapons and
special means for self-defence. The procedures for possessing and
carrying thereof shall be determined by the head of the State
security institution. When applying the weapons and special
means, the requirements of the Law On Police must be conformed
to;
8) within the scope of their competence, to receive free of
charge the necessary information, documents and other materials
regarding services provided to persons, including information
from the holder of information resources and technical resources
regarding contacts of the persons, using post, telegraph,
telecommunications and other data transmission networks;
9) when fulfilling the official duties, to verify the personal
identification documents.
(2) Information obtained in accordance with the procedures
laid down in this Section shall be used only within the scope of
intelligence, counterintelligence, investigatory operations and
criminal procedural activities.
[27 June 2002; 7 April 2004; 2 June
2005]
Section 20. Limitations of the
Rights of Officials and Employees of State Security
Institutions
(1) It is prohibited for officials of State security
institutions:
1) to carry out political activities, to organise strikes,
demonstrations, pickets and to participate therein, to establish
trade unions and to participate in the operation thereof;
2) [7 April 2004];
3) to take advantage of their official position, to take
decisions on issues related to the personal interests of the
official or employee himself or herself or of their next of
kin.
(2) The property belonging to officials and employees of State
security institutions and the management thereof may not become
an obstacle or hindrance for performance of the official duties
or assignment of such officials and employees to another
position.
(3) The restrictions for holding multiple offices for
officials of State security institutions shall be determined by
the Law On Prevention of Conflict of Interests in Activities of
Public Officials.
[7 April 2004; 2 June 2005]
Section 21. Liability of Officials
and Employees of State Security Institutions
(1) Officials and employees of State security institutions
shall be held liable for unlawful action in accordance with the
procedures laid down in laws, taking into account the
restrictions and procedures provided for in this Law.
(2) An action that, when fulfilling an official task, has been
performed in a situation of justified professional risk, without
exceeding the boundary of the necessary self-defence or extreme
emergency, shall not be deemed to be a violation of the law.
(3) If a competent State authority or an official thereof has
detected that the official or employee of the State security
institution has committed an administrative offence, it must be
reported within 24 hours to the head of the respective State
security institution who must provide an opinion within three
days on whether there are circumstances which exclude the
liability of the subordinated official or employee.
(4) The head of the State security institution shall impose
the following disciplinary punishments for an unlawful or
unethical action of the official or employee of the State
security institution, assessing the severity of the offence:
1) a reproof;
2) a reprimand;
3) reduction of the monthly work salary in the amount of up to
20 per cent for a time period up to one year;
4) demotion;
5) a dismissal from work (service).
[20 June 2000; 27 June 2002; 2 June
2005]
Section 22. Social Guarantees in
Case of Injury or Death of the Official or Employee of State
Security Institutions
[1 December 2009]
Section 23. Pensions to Officials of
State Security Institutions
Service pensions shall be granted to officials of State
security institutions in accordance with the laws and regulations
governing the service pensions of employees of defence
institutions and institutions of the interior, as well as of the
Constitution Protection Bureau.
[27 June 2002]
Section 23.1 Benefits,
Compensations and Supplement to Officials and Employees of State
Security Institutions Performing Official Duties outside the
State
[1 December 2009]
Chapter Five
STRUCTURE OF STATE SECURITY INSTITUTIONS, FINANCING, GENERAL
MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF THE ACTIVITIES THEREOF
Section 24. Approval of the
Structure and Staff-Roll of State Security Institutions,
Financing of Activities of such Institutions
(1) Upon initiative of the head of a State security
institution, the numerical composition of the staff, the
structure and staff-roll of the State security institution shall
be approved by the responsible minister. The head of the State
security institution shall be liable for those issues of staff
selection and appointment, the resolution of which is not under
the supervision of the responsible minister in accordance with
the procedures and in the amount laid down in the State
Administration Structure Law.
(2) Officials and employees of a State security institution
shall receive remuneration, determined according to the Law On
Remuneration of Officials and Employees of State and Local
Government Authorities.
(3) Activities of State security institutions shall be
financed from the funds from the State budget.
(4) The procedures for utilisation of funds and internal
control shall be determined by the head of the State security
institution.
(5) Data on the numerical composition of the staff and
internal structure of State security institutions, staff-rolls,
finances and technical equipment thereof shall be an official
secret.
[27 June 2002; 7 April 2004; 2 June
2005; 1 December 2009]
Section 25. Control and Monitoring
of Activities of State Security Institutions
(1) The Saeima and the National Security Committee
thereof shall carry out parliamentary control over activities of
State security institutions.
(2) The Cabinet, within the scope of its competence, shall
control activities of State security institutions.
(3) The National Security Committee of the Saeima is
entitled to hear the reports and statements of the heads of State
security institutions, as well as to get acquainted with the
official documents and information of such institutions, except
the documents on covert sources of information.
(4) The responsible minister shall carry out monitoring over
the State security institution under his or her subordination in
all fields, except the processes of investigatory operations,
intelligence and counterintelligence of State security
institutions and the official secret protection system.
[27 June 2002; 4 July 2004; 2 June
2005]
Section 26. Supervision of
Activities of State Security Institutions
(1) The Prosecutor General and public prosecutors specifically
authorised by him or her shall carry out supervision over the
processes of investigatory operations, intelligence and
counterintelligence of State security institutions and the
official secret protection system. When carrying out supervision,
they are entitled to get acquainted with the documents, materials
and information at disposal of State security institutions.
Identity of information sources shall be disclosed only in such
cases when they are directly involved in committing of a criminal
offence, moreover, only to the Prosecutor General, but to public
prosecutors specifically authorised by him or her - only upon
consent of the head of the State security institution; it is
prohibited to disclose the identity of information sources under
supervision procedures.
(2) Public prosecutors supervising State security institutions
shall have the same information protection duties as the
employees of such institutions.
(3) Inspections of State security institutions and the scope
of such inspections must be co-ordinated with the National
Security Committee of the Saeima and the results of such
inspections must be notified thereto.
(4) State security institutions shall be subject to court
control in the cases and in accordance with the procedures laid
down in the Investigatory Operations Law.
(5) Internal laws and regulations of State security
institutions related to the processes of investigatory
operations, intelligence and counterintelligence and the official
secret protection system, shall come into force after approval
thereof by the Prosecutor General.
(6) The internal laws and regulations referred to in Paragraph
five of this Section need not be co-ordinated with the Ministry
of Justice.
[27 June 2002; 2 June 2005]
Transitional Provisions
1. With the coming into force of this Law, the following
decisions of the Supreme Council and the Presidium of the Supreme
Council of the Republic of Latvia shall be repealed:
1) Decision of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia
"On the Establishment of the Safety Guard Service of the Supreme
Council of the Republic of Latvia" (Latvijas Republikas
Augstākās Padomes un Valdības Ziņotājs, 1991, No. 35/36);
2) Decision of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia
"On Amendments to the Decision of the Supreme Council of the
Republic of Latvia "On Establishment of the Safety Guard Service
of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia"" (Latvijas
Republikas Augstākās Padomes un Valdības Ziņotājs, 1991, No.
35/36).
2. Within two months after coming into force of this Law the
Cabinet shall take over the Security Service of the Republic of
Latvia under its subordination, in the meantime drawing up the
new by-law of the Security Service.
3. As of the moment the Cabinet has taken the Security Service
of the Republic of Latvia under its subordination and approved
the by-laws of this Service, the following shall be repealed:
1) Decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the
Republic of Latvia On Approval of the By-law of the Security
Service of the Republic of Latvia (Latvijas Republikas
Augstākās Padomes un Valdības Ziņotājs, 1992, No. 44/45);
2) Decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the
Republic of Latvia On Approval of the Staff-Roll of the Security
Service of the Republic of Latvia;
3) Decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the
Republic of Latvia On Amendments to 4 June 1992 Decision of the
Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia "On
Approval of the By-Laws of the Security Service of the Republic
of Latvia"(Latvijas Republikas Augstākās Padomes un Valdības
Ziņotājs, 1993, No. 3/4);
4) Decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the
Republic of Latvia On Regulation for Acquisition, Registration,
Storage and Issuance of the Firearms, Ammunition, High Explosive
Substances for the Safety Guard Service of the Supreme Council of
the Republic of Latvia (Latvijas Republikas Augstākās Padomes
un Valdības Ziņotājs, 1991, No. 49/50);
5) Decision of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia
On Renaming of the Safety Guard Service of the Supreme Council of
the Republic of Latvia Latvijas Republikas Augstākās Padomes
un Valdības Ziņotājs, 1992, No. 6/7).
4. The remuneration determined according to this Law (work
salary, benefits, etc.) in 2009 shall be determined in accordance
with the Law On Remuneration of Officials and Employees of State
and Local Government Authorities in 2009.
[12 December 2008]
This Law shall come into force from the date of its
proclamation.
The Saeima has adopted this Law on 5 May 1994.
President G. Ulmanis
Riga, 19 May 1994
1 The Parliament of the Republic of
Latvia
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