The legislature since 1992

Legislative Hall has housed an elected legislature since 1992: two chambers in the territorial period, one since 2007. The Mejlis keeps the territorial name, the standing committees and the statute book of the territorial legislature.

• 1992The Organic Act of the Territory provides for an elected legislature. An interim legislature, drawn from the councils of the Provisional Government and from district delegates, first meets in Legislative Hall in October.
• 1993The Banking and Commercial Currency Act charters Talasbank and lets the dollar circulate beside the som. The Toponymic Heritage Statute restores Turkic and Sogdian names to streets, districts and reservoirs, and confirms the name Nurzhan. The Standard Time Act fixes Irad Time at UTC+6.
• 1994First general elections: a Territorial Senate of 15 members and a House of Representatives of 35.
• 1995

  

  The Hydrocarbon and Mining Code sets up the royalty fund for road building. The Latin Orthography Revision standardises the Iradi alphabet.
• 1997The Language and Education Reform Act makes teaching in Iradi and English compulsory in public schools.
• 2003The Judicial Reforms Act introduces jury trials and commercial arbitration.
• 2006After the withdrawal of the United States, the legislature reconstitutes itself as a national assembly and on 9 December proclaims the Democratic Republic of Irad. The assembly is dissolved when the Popular Front takes Talas on 4 June 2007.
• 2007

  

  The administration of the Special Economic Zone reconstitutes the legislature under its territorial name, as a single chamber. Members of the last territorial legislature sit as a provisional chamber until 2011.
• 2011First election of the 60-member chamber, held on the same day as the election of the Governor.
• 2013The chamber amends the Elective Governor Acts of 1992, removing the limit on the Governor's terms.
• 2019Nurbek Sultanov is elected Speaker by the new chamber.
• 2023Election of 7 November: the Democratic Party of Irad 51 seats, independents 6, Nurzhan civic lists 3.

From the statute book

Among more than 800 statutes passed in the territorial period, these remain in force as part of the basic law of the Zone.

The journals of the territorial legislature, 1992–2006, are held at the State Archives (Fond 110).