Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.uz) — President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev has returned to parliament a law introducing amendments and additions to the Code of Administrative Liability. This was announced by MP Gulshana Khudoyarova at a meeting of the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis on 15 September.
According to the committee, the law was adopted by the Legislative Chamber on 27 January, approved by the Senate in May and then submitted to the Presidential Administration. On 8 September, the head of state returned the document to both chambers, raising “a number of conceptual issues and objections.”
The bill provided for administrative liability for failing to inform a car buyer that the odometer reading had been altered or that the odometer itself had been replaced. It proposed adding a new Article 178-2 to the Code of Administrative Liability.
The Senate noted that the provision was aimed at protecting buyers from inaccurate information about mileage and abuses in the sale of vehicles.
The document also provided for changes to the procedure for reducing the period of deprivation of the right to drive vehicles or the right to hunt.
One of the president’s comments concerned the preparation of a new version of the Code of Administrative Liability.
Under a presidential order dated 7 May 2026, No. F-30, relevant ministries and agencies, together with scholars, are developing a corresponding draft.
The new version is planned to include a separate procedural section that will detail the rules and procedures for handling cases at each stage of consideration. According to the committee representative, introducing repeated amendments to the code within a short period concerning case proceedings could lead to improper development of practice, uncertainty and differing interpretations.
The preparation of a new version of the Code of Administrative Liability is also provided for under the “Justice — 2030” strategy, approved in August. The Ministry of Justice, together with the Supreme Court and the Prosecutor General’s Office, has been tasked with developing a draft of the new version by 1 April 2027.
The president’s other comments concerned the provision on liability for manipulating odometer readings. They cite the experience of Germany, Poland, France, Canada, South Korea and other countries.
According to the committee representative, taking international experience into account, it is proposed to establish administrative liability not for failing to inform the buyer about incorrect odometer readings, but directly for externally interfering with the device in order to alter its readings.
Thus, the proposed change concerns the very approach to defining the offense: liability would be linked to interference with the operation of the odometer rather than the subsequent failure to provide information to the buyer.
The committee said that the comments raised could not be addressed within the initial concept of the bill.
The Committee on Anti-Corruption and Judicial-Legal Affairs proposed removing the law from the Legislative Chamber’s repeated consideration.
Speaker of the Legislative Chamber Nuriddin Ismoilov noted that the document had passed both chambers of parliament, but, given the preparation of a new version of the Code of Administrative Liability, it was proposed to consider the relevant issues together with the new version and in line with its principles.
The deputies unanimously supported the proposal to remove the law from repeated consideration.
