The Milli Majlis Committee for Family, Women’s and Children’s Affairs held an online meeting on 8 April.

Committee Chair Hijran Huseynova said on opening the meeting about the first item of the agenda being the Bill containing amendments to the Forest, Labour, Family, Criminal, Tax, Criminal Procedure and Administrative Offences codes. She added that the Committee were to look at the amendments to Articles 51 and 115 of the Family Code that are contained in Article 3 of the Bill; they specify precisely which executive authority is to control the exercise of children’s rights.

The Bill proposes the replacement of the current wording ‘the appropriate executive authority agency’ in the Family Code with the passage ‘the body (institution) designated by the appropriate executive authority agency’ so as to provide for the operation of the Territorial Medical Detachment Administration Association. The same adjustment is to be made applicable to the birth registration procedure stipulated in Article 166, according to Mrs Huseynova.

The Committee recommended that the Bill should be tabled at a plenum of the Milli Majlis.

The second item that Mrs Huseynova informed the meeting participants about was the Bill (in the first reading) containing draft amendments to the following laws: ‘On the State Care of Diabetes Mellitus Patients’, ‘On Blood and Blood Component Donation, and the Blood Service’, ‘On the Prevention of Neglect of Adolescents and of Juvenile Offences’, ‘On the Azerbaijani Red Crescent Society’, ‘On the Apiary Sector’, ‘On the Social Adaptation of Persons Relieved of Penitentiary Sentence Service’, ‘On Education’, ‘On Physical Education and Sports’, ‘On Cession of Lands for State Needs’, ‘On Countering the Diseases Caused by the HIV’ and ‘On the Prevention of Household Violence’.

Mrs Huseynova made it clear that the amendments to the Law ‘On the Prevention of Household Violence’ contained in Article 11 of the Bill were being put before the Committee: their emergence, too, is due to the need to maintain operation of the Territorial Medical Detachment Administration Association.

Deputy Chair of the Committee Jala Aliyeva and the Committee members Rashad Mahmudov and Sadagat Valiyeva voiced their ideas about the Bill. It was suggested following the discussion that the draft should be motioned for the first reading at a plenum of the Milli Majlis.

The Committee members Rauf Aliyev, Parvin Karimzade, Ramin Mammadov, Sevil Mikayilova and Konul Nurullayeva as well as other officials took part in the meeting, too.

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