Department of Legal Regulation of State Social Activities

Department in accordance with the tasks assigned to it and in accordance with competence in the branch of law:

· conducts obligatory legal expertise of normative legal acts of rule-making bodies, draft resolutions of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus, approves draft laws of the Republic of Belarus, and draft acts of the President of the Republic of Belarus;
· participates in the development and implementation of annual plans for the preparation of draft legislative acts, annual plans for the preparation of draft resolutions of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus;
· conducts reviews of rule-making activities of the drafting of projects in the republican government bodies subordinate to the Government of the Republic of Belarus, by analyzing projects received by the Ministry, followed by the submission of recommendations for eliminating violations in rule-making activities;
· within the Ministry's competence, considers appeals from citizens, including individual entrepreneurs, and legal entities;

The department competence includes the exercise of the above functions in the following spheres:
legislation on labor and employment of the population;
marriage and family law;
legislation on social protection and social insurance;
health care legislation;
education legislation.