The Law of Georgia
On the Fee for a Deferment of Compulsory Military Service
Article 1. General provisions
According to Article 94 of the Constitution of Georgia and Laws of Georgia “Оn the Principles of the
System of Fees” and “Оn Military Duty and Military Service”, this Law shall define an amount, order and
the conditions of payment of fees for a deferment of compulsory military service.
Article 2. Definition of the fee for a deferment of compulsory military service
The fee for a deferment of compulsory military service shall be an obligatory payment to the state budget
of Georgia, which shall be paid for using the right to deferment of compulsory military service envisaged
by Subparagraph (d) of Paragraph 1 of Article 30 of the Law of Georgia “Оn Military Duty and Military
Service”.
Article 3. Payer of the fee for a deferment of compulsory military service
Payers of the fee for a deferment of compulsory military service shall be persons aged between 18-27 years
old, who according to the Law of Georgia “Оn Military Duty and Military Service” shall be subject to the
call-up and wish to defer it.
Article 4. Deferment of compulsory military service
1. Established by this Law payment of the fee for a deferment of compulsory military service shall be the
basis for the conscript’s postponement of compulsory military service.
2. In cases of payment of this fee by a conscript, the military department of the body of local government
shall make the corresponding record in his private dossier and attach the document certifying payment of
the fee.
Article 5. The rate of the fee for a deferment of compulsory military service
A fee for a deferment of compulsory military service for the person subject to the call-up for compulsory
military service shall make annually 200 (two hundred) laries or a lump sum - 2000 (two thousand) laries.
Article 6. The order of payment of the fee for a deferment of compulsory military service in the state
budget of Georgia
1. 20 % fee for a deferment of compulsory military service shall be entered in the state budget of Georgia,
10% - in the respective local budget, 45% shall be paid to the Ministry of Defence, 15% - to the Ministry of
Internal Affairs, and 15% - to the State Department of Protection of the State Border of Georgia. These
payments shall be made on the accounts of special incomes in the state treasury.
2. The term for the payment of the fee for a deferment of compulsory military service shall be determined
by the decree of the President of Georgia.
3. In order to define an estimated amount of revenues which shall be accumulated by the collection of fees
for a deferment of compulsory military service and to supervise the accumulation of these revenues, the
bodies of local government, by August 1st annually, shall present the corresponding calculations on the
estimated amount of revenues, which shall be accumulated by the collection of these fees during next
financial year, to the Ministry of Finance of Georgia. (7.05.2003)
Article 7. The order of consideration of disputable issues
Disputed questions connected with the payment of the fee for a deferment of compulsory military service
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shall be resolved by the court.
Article 8. Enforcement of the Law
This Law shall enter into force upon its promulgation.
President of Georgia
Tbilisi
June 21, 2002
No. 1531
Eduard Shevardnadze