Federal Law of the Russian Federation
ON SEVERAL ISSUES ON ARRANGEMENT OF THE ACTIVITY OF MARTIALLAW COURTS AND BODIES OF MILITARY JUSTICE
Adopted by the State Duma on October 21, 1994
Approved by the Federation Council on November 17, 1994
(in the version of Federal Law № 61-ФЗ dated 13.04.98)
Summary:
This federal law deals with the practical aspects of establishing martial law courts and
bodies.
The establishment, the procedures of doing military service in martial law courts and
related military justice bodies; the material security of those attached to martial law courts;
the financing and supply of the courts; and the guarding and convoying of persons
committed to those courts.
Article 1. Martial-Law Courts
The martial-law courts shall be part of the judicial system of the Russian Federation; they
shall be the Federal courts and exercise administration of justice in the Armed Forces of the
Russian Federation, other troops, as well as in the bodies and formations, providing for
military service by the effective legislation. Before adoption of the Federal Constitutional
Law on the Judicial System of the Russian Federation and the Federal Law on the MartialLaw Courts of the Russian Federation in relation to martial-law courts there shall be applied
the Provision on Military Tribunals (in the version of the USSR Law ‘On Entry of
Amendments and Additions in the Provision on Military Tribunals’ dated June 25 1980) in
the part not contradicting to the effective Legislation.
Article 2. Procedure of Doing Military Service in Martial-Law Courts and Bodies of
Military Justice
The military persons of martial-law courts, Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the
Russian Federation and Martial-Law Court Department of the Ministry of Justice of the
Russian Federation shall do military service in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,
and be part of their staff quantity. The military regulations and provisions, defining the
procedure of doing military service with account of the peculiarities fixed by the Law of the
Russian Federation ‘On the Status of Judges in the Russian Federation’, other legal acts and
the present Federal Law shall apply to the above military persons.
Clause 8 of the Resolution of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation ‘On
Some Measures Connected with Observance of the Law of the Russian Federation ‘On
Military Duty and Military Service’ in the part related to attachment of military persons of
martial-law courts to specific martial-law courts shall be repealed.
Until the entry of the corresponding amendments and additions into the Law of the
Russian Federation ‘On Military Duty and Military Service’ the effect of Article 30 of the
mentioned Law providing conclusion of a contract on doing military service shall be
suspended in relation to the martial-law court judges and Military Collegium of the
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.
To give to the judges of martial-law courts and Military Collegium of the Supreme
Court of the Russian Federation equal rights and benefits fixed by the Law of the Russian
Federation ‘On the Status of Military Persons’ with the military persons doing military
service under a contract.
Article 3. Material Security of the Military Persons of Martial-Law Courts and Bodies of
Military Justice
The monthly official salaries and qualification class increments to the judges of martial-law
courts and Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, class rank
increments to the military persons and civil personnel of the staffs of martial-law courts,
Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and Martial-Law Court
Department of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation shall be paid in the
amounts, approved by the Resolution of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation
dated February 17, 1993 ‘On Some Issues Related to Realization of the Provisions of the
Law of the Russian Federation ‘On Status of the Judges in the Russian Federation’ in
Relation to the Judges of Martial-Law Courts, their Material Security and Measures of their
Social Security”.
The monthly official salaries of the military persons and civil personnel of the staffs
of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and Martial-Law
Court Department of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, as well as of the
martial-law courts shall be fixed at the level of the official salaries, envisaged for analogues
positions of the correspondingly main and central departments of the Ministry of Defense of
the Russian Federation, military units and institutions of the Armed Forces of the Russian
Federation.
Payment of monthly salaries in compliance with the given military rank, payment of
all annual, monthly, additional lump-sump monetary payments, issue of all categories of inkind and other allowances and supply to the military persons of the martial-law courts,
Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and Martial-Law Court
Department of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, as well as to the civil
personnel of the corresponding staffs shall be effected under the grounds and in the amounts
fixed by the effective Legislation for the military persons and civil personnel of the Armed
Forces of the Russian Federation.
Article 4.
Financing and Material-Technical Supplies of the Martial-Law Courts and
Bodies of Military Justice
Financing and material-technical supply of the martial-law courts, Military Collegium of the
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and Martial-Law Court Department of the
Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation shall be provided on account of the funds
assigned to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation out of the Federal Budget.
Financing and material-technical procurement, supply with vehicles, means of
communication, service premises, all categories of allowances, as well as guarding of
premises and storage of archive materials of the martial-law courts, Military Collegium of
the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and Martial-Law Court Department of the
Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation shall be effected by the corresponding bodies
of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. The Military Collegium of the
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and Martial-Law Court Department of the
Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation shall be supplied with all categories of
allowances at the level of the main and central departments of the Ministry of Defense of
the Russian Federation.
Article 5. Guarding and Convoying of Persons
Guarding and convoying in the martial-law courts of the persons detained in disciplinary
units, under the guard in the guardhouse shall be effected with the forces and means of the
corresponding military units or military commandant’s offices of garrisons. Convoying of
persons being under arrest in other places of detainment, as well as in prisons and
correctional-labor colonies to the place of case investigation by the martial-law courts
(except for the cases of the accused convoying to the court sittings of the Military
Collegium of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation) shall be effected by the forces
and means of the bodies of internal affairs of the Russian Federation (in the version of
Federal Law № 61-ФЗ dated 13.04.98).
Convoying of the accused to the court sittings of the Military Collegium of the
Supreme Council of the Russian Federation shall be effected by the forces and means of the
internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (Part three has
been introduced by Federal Law № 61-ФЗ dated 13.04.98).
Article 6. Enforcement of the Present Federal Law
The present Federal Law shall become effective upon expiry of ten days from the date of its
official publication.
President of the Russian Federation
City of Moscow, The Kremlin.
December 03, 1994, N 55-ФЗ
B. YELTSIN