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The Act makes provision for private, collective, and state property. The text consists of 25 articles divided into 5 Parts: General Regulations (I); Citizens' Property (II); Collective Property (III); The State Property (IV); Guarantees, Protection and Restrictions of the Proprietary Rights (V).The right of ownership, is recognized and protected by law (art. 1). Article 2 lists the objects of the right of ownership. Also persons not admitted to the citizenship of the Kazakh SSR may be subjects of the right of ownership (art. 3). The property of the Kazakh SSR may be in the form of citizens' property, collective property, and state property (art. 6). The part on citizens' property includes provisions on the properties of working and peasant farms: "Properties of working and peasants farms shall include any objects necessary for independent farm running, except the prohibited by the legislation of the Kazakh SSR". "The property of a peasant farm shall belong to the members on the basis of common joint property" (art.8). Article 9 defines "common property": "To the collective property belongs a property of leaseholding and collective enterprises, collective farmers and other types of cooperative societies, stock companies, economic societies and associations, social organizations and other associations being legal entities". The State property of the Kazakh SSR shall be in the form of the republican and communal property. earth, its bowels, rivers and lakes, air spaces, flora and fauna, other natural resources, historic and cultural monuments shall exclusively belong to the Kazakh SSR".
