PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION FOR PERSONAL RECEPTION (CONSTITUTIONAL LAW ANALYSIS)

This article analyzes the legal institute of preliminary registration as an element of personal reception procedures. The author examines legal acts with regard to preliminary registration of different public authorities (not only executive): its compulsory character, requirements to an application for personal reception of citizens, rules of responding to applications for preliminary registration. Conclusions made on the basis of the analysis are as follows: 1. Currently, preliminary registration is actively used and demanded by the population, but it is not provided for by any federal law, and its regulation is carried out under unrelated departmental acts. 2. A request for personal reception registration is actually a special kind of applications, and, accordingly, it should be treated in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Law "On the procedure of considering requests from the citizens of the Russian Federation;" however, this is not feasible, because it bureaucratizes and formalizes the procedure of preliminary registration. 3. Preliminary registration needs to be enshrined in a federal law as a specific category of requests that involves a summary procedure for its consideration and response (in the form of a notice informing about the time and place of personal reception by phone, email or SMS). 4. The paper reveals the tendency to use preliminary registration as a way of complicating the procedure of personal reception, for example, requiring preliminary registration as a compulsory (rather than alternative) condition of personal reception, or requiring excessive compulsory information to be submitted for preliminary registration. Accordingly, the author makes a conclusion with regard to the necessity to legislatively recognize a dispositive nature of preliminary registration when the citizen preserves the right to personal reception without preliminary registration, i.e. in the order "first come first served."

preliminary registration, personal reception, reception of citizens, public appeals, appellant, application, Legislation on Public Appeals, bylaws on appeals, constitutional right to appeal, the right to appeal, details of an appeal

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