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Official Translation Official Translation REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA LAW ON STATE BORDER GUARD SERVICE October 10, 2000. No. VIII -1996 Vilnius CHAPTER I LEGAL STATUS OF STATE BORDER GUARD SERVICE SECTION I GENERAL PROVISIONS Article 1. Purpose of the Law The Law shall establish the status, functions and structure of the State Border Guard Service, the principles of funding the organisation of service and the rights and obligations of officers. Article 2. State Border Guard Service 1. The State Border Guard Service under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania (hereinafter - Service) is a State institution, the purpose whereof shall be to implement guarding of the State border and control over crossing thereof, and in times of war, to defend the State as an integral part of its armed forces. 2. The Service shall be under the administration of the Ministry of the Interior. The Ministry of the Interior shall be in charge of the implementation of the policy of State border guarding and shall control it. 3. The Service shall base it activities upon the principles of lawfulness, respect of human rights and freedoms, co-ordination between personal liberty of the officer and statutory discipline, constant readiness and co-ordination between openness and confidentiality. 4. The internal organisation of the Service shall be based upon statutory grounds. Special ranks of officers of the Service shall be designated to regulate statutory relations between officers of the Service, and to mark their length of service, qualifications and duties. 5. The service shall be a subject of operative activities. 6. When implementing the functions of preliminary investigation assigned to it, the Service shall operate throughout the entire territory of the State. 7. The Service and officers thereof shall not take part in political activities. 8. The Service shall be a legal person, independent administrator of assignments, having a settlement bank account, seal, flag and emblem. 9. The professional holiday of officers of the Service shall be observed on June 29th, Border Guards Day. Article 3. Legal Principles of Activities of Service The Service shall organise and implement its activities, based upon the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania, laws, international agreements of the Republic of Lithuania and other legal acts. Article 4. Professional Relations of Service In implementing its functions, the Service shall co-operate with State and local government institutions and the similar services of other states. SECTION II FUNCTIONS AND POWERS OF SERVICE Article 5. Principal Functions of Service 1. The Service shall: 1) protect the State border on land, at sea, in the Couronian Sea, and frontier inland waters; 2) exercise control over persons and means of transport crossing the State border; 3) enforce regulations of the frontier and, as far as this lies within the scope of its competence, regulations of border crossing point ; 4) participate in the implementation of State control over migration processes; 5) participate in ensuring public order and perform the enforcement functions established by laws, in the frontier zone; 6) in times of war defend the State as an integral part of the armed forces; 2.The Service shall also perform other functions assigned to it by legal acts. 3. The Service shall implement the functions specified in this Article, acting openly and when needed, employing the means and methods of operative activities provided for by laws. Article 6. Service Powers in Guarding the State Border 1. In guarding the State border, the service shall: 1) install and maintain State border markers, border patrol path, engineer barriers, alarm systems (complexes), and other State border protection structures and equipment; 2) co-ordinate the activities of State institutions with a view to enforcing the regulations of the State border; 3) prevent and, as far as this lies within the scope of its competence, investigate border incidents; 4) prohibit persons and means of transport from crossing the border illegally in non - designated places and (or)border crossing points during non - designated hours; 5) identify and detain persons and means of transport, that have crossed the State border illegally; 6) in the instances and according to the procedure stipulated by laws, perform an investigation in criminal cases; 7) enforce environmental protection regulations within State border protection facilities. 2. In guarding the State border, the Service shall make use of the required arms, technical and other special measures. Article 7. Powers of Service in Implementing Border Control over Persons and Means of Transport 1. In implementing border control over persons and means of transport, the Service shall: 1) verify documents of persons and means of transport, marking them as required; 2) verify information relevant to persons and means of transport crossing the State border in the specified records and data bases and other sources of information; 3) inquire the destination and reason for travel of arriving foreigners, verify whether arriving foreigners have sufficient means of subsistence for the duration of their stay in the Republic of Lithuania and whether they meet other requirements of the laws and other legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania with respect to entry into the Republic of Lithuania; 4) issue visas or other permits to cross the State border to foreigners in accordance with the procedure established by laws and other legal acts; 5) check means of transport for hidden passengers; 6) perform radiation check of persons and means of transport crossing the State border, and also of the freight being hauled; 7) detain persons and means of transport crossing the State border illegally; 8) detain, until an appropriate decision can be taken, persons who are bringing in or taking out firearms, ammunition, explosives, and (

  1. or)explosive, narcotic, psychotropic, dangerous and (or ) hazardous substances without permit; 9) apply means of administrative responsibility to persons for violations of the regulations of the frontier and (
  2. or)rules of border crossing point operation on the basis of and according to the procedure established by laws. 2. In implementing control of persons and means of transport, the Service shall employ technical, and in detaining of persons, other special means. Article 8. Powers of Service in Enforcing Lawful Regulations of the Border and Regulations of Border Crossing Points 1. In enforcing regulations of the frontier, the Service shall : 1) control adherence by the citizens of the Republic of Lithuania and foreigners to the procedure of travelling to and staying in the frontier zone; 2) prevent hauling of freight ( goods, valuable and other articles) by contraband means in places other than border crossing points; 3) control adherence by natural or legal persons and enterprises not having the rights of legal persons to the established procedure of production, economic or other activity in the frontier zone with a view to ensuring safety of the State border; 4) control adherence by ships to the established procedure of departures to the territorial sea, internal sea waters and frontier waters and sailing and staying therein; 5) participate in controlling the use of natural resources in the frontier zone , with a view to enforcing the regulation of the State border; 6) participate in the implementation of search and rescue operations at sea, in the Couronian Sea and in frontier internal waters. 2. At border crossing points, the Service shall: 1) ensure uninterrupted functioning of border crossing points in accordance with the procedure established by the Government; 2) control persons and means of transport, walking or driving in border crossing point; 3) control the movement of persons and means of transport on the territory of a border crossing point; 4) limit admission or entrance into a certain part of the territory of a border crossing point for the purpose of performing service or for safety reasons; 5) maintain public order on the territory of a border crossing point and, ensure public peace and safety of persons crossing the State border and officers working at the border crossing point. 3. In permitting persons to cross the State border at the border crossing point, in which there are no Customs Offices, the Service shall ensure that, those persons who travel across these border crossing points and carry items for which bringing in (taking out) prohibitions and limitations are applied, observe the norms established for bringing in (taking out) of these items. 4. Having discovered a violation of customs regulations or a fact of transporting of contraband, the Service shall detain persons, means of transport and the freight being hauled across the border, until an appropriate decision is reached by the authorised institutions. Article 9. Powers of Service with Regard to Persons Illegally Crossing State Border 1. In implementing State control over immigration, the Service shall: 1) disclose and for the length of time set by laws detain, foreigners who have crossed the State border illegally; throughout the entire territory of the State, 2) establish the identity of foreigners who have crossed the State border illegally; 3) ensure security of foreigners who have crossed the State border illegally, at the Foreigners’ Registration Centre, until an appropriate decision is adopted by authorised institutions; 2. In disclosing foreigners who have crossed the State border illegally, the Service may act employing the means and methods of operative activities. 3. In establishing the identity of foreigners who have crossed the State border illegally, the Service may employ all of the necessary sources of information, including those located abroad. Article 10. Powers of Service in Enforcing Law in Frontier Zone and at Secured Facilities In enforcing law in the frontier zone and at secured facilities, the Service shall have the general rights and duties of the police, established by laws of the Republic of Lithuania. SECTION III ORGANISATION OF SERVICE Article 11. Organisational Structure of Service The Service shall comprise: 1) Commander of the Service; 2) Headquarters of the Service; 3) Districts of the Service; 4) Stations of the Service; 5) other structural divisions of the Service. Article 12. Administrative Management of Service 1. The Minister of the Interior shall administer the Service through the Commander of the Service. The Minister of the Interior shall: 1) form the principal guidelines of the implementation of the Government programme in the sphere of the policy of State border guarding and control the fulfilment thereof; 2) Initiate drafting of laws and legal acts in connection with State border guarding and operation of the Service and submit these drafts to the Government; 3) upon co-ordination with the Prime Minister, appoint the Commander of the Service; 4) upon recommendation of the Commander of the Service, appoint his deputies; 5) submit regulations of the Service for approval by the Government. 2. The ways and means of implementing the functions established by laws and other legal acts shall be decided upon by the chiefs of the Service and the structural divisions thereof, who are assigned to implement these functions. 3. Upon introduction of a state of war or during armed defence in times of aggression (war) the Service shall be assigned to the armed forces. The laws and other legal acts shall regulate the command of the Service as an integral part of the armed forces. Article 13. Commander of Service 1. The Commander of the Service shall be the top officer of the Service, exercising command of the Service, controlling it and being responsible for the general activities of the structural divisions. The Commander of Service shall be subordinated and answerable directly to the Minister of the Interior. 2. The Commander of the Service shall exercise command of the districts of the Service through commanders of the districts of the Service, and of the central units of the Service either directly through the chief of staff of the Service or through other deputies, who may be chiefs of units of the Service, not constituting the Headquarters of the Service. 3. The Commander of the Service shall be appointed to a term of five years, however for no more than two consecutive terms. 4. The Commander of the Service may be relieved of his duties by the Minister of the Interior, prior to expiration of his term of office and the grounds for this shall be as follows: 1) he himself lodges a request; 2) a judgement of conviction, regarding him becomes effective; 3) circumstances indicated in Article 19 of this Law, are disclosed; 4) he is in poor state of health, as stated on conclusion of an appropriate medical expert commission. Article 14. Headquarters of Service 1 The Headquarters of the Service (hereinafter- the Headquarters) shall be the central structural unit of the Service. It shall assist the Commander of the Service in exercising unified command of the territorial area structural units of the Service. 2. The Headquarters shall organise and control the internal administration of the Service. 3. The chief of Staff shall be a Deputy Commander of the Service, having the power to settle the issues of internal administration and, in the absence if the Commander of the Service, to act on his behalf. 4. The functions of the Headquarters and other special units of the Service shall be established in the regulations of the Service. The elements of the internal structure required for the implementation of the functions of these units, shall be established by an order of the Commander of the Service. Article 15. District of Service 1. The District of the Service (hereinafter- the District) shall be a territorial unit of the Service, organising and implementing functions of the Service in a set frontier zone on land, in the territorial sea and in frontier inland waters. 2. The District shall be a legal person, having a bank account, seal stamp, flag and emblem. 3. The regulations of the Service shall establish the number of districts and the stationing thereof within the state territory. 4. The Commander of the District shall exercise command of the district directly or through his deputies. The Commander of the Service shall appoint the Commander of the District and deputies thereof. The regulations of the Service shall set the official powers of the Commander of the District and deputies thereof. 5. The functions of the District shall be laid down in the regulations of the Service, while the structural units of the District shall be established and their regulations approved by the Commander of the Service, upon the recommendation of the Commander of the District. 6. The Headquarters of the District shall organise and control the internal administration of the District. The chief of staff thereof shall be Deputy Commander of the District. Article 16. Station of Service 1.The Station of Service (hereinafter- the Station) shall be a structural unit of the District implementing the established functions of State border guarding in the designated sector of the frontier zone. 2. The function of the Station shall be establishing and the area of operation designated by the Commander of the Service. 3. The Station shall be under the command of the Leader of the Station. He shall be appointed by the Commander of the Service upon recommendation of the Commander of the District. Article 17. Funding and Control of Service 1. The Service shall be funded from the State Budget. 2. The Commander of the Service shall be senior manager of allocations. 3. Non -budgetary funds obtained according to the procedure established by legal acts may also be used for funding the Service. CHAPTER II LEGAL STATUS OF OFFICER OF SERVICE SECTION IV OFFICER OF SERVICE Article 18. Officer of Service 1. The Officer of the Service (hereinafter-the Officer) shall be a citizen of the Republic of Lithuania, enrolled in the Service as a statutory public servant and have the powers of public administration over persons not subordinate to him. 2. An officer wearing the uniform or clothing of a certain type and also having presented an official badge or official identification card, shall have the right to issue peremptory requirements and instructions to other natural, legal persons and enterprises, not having the rights of legal persons. 3. An officer must implement the requirements or instruction of another officer who is his superior in the position unless they are knowingly unlawful. The received order, requirement or instruction that is knowingly unlawful must be reported without delay, to the Commander of the Service, the officer substituting him or a prosecutor. 4. An officer shall have the right to keep, carry and use in accordance with the established procedure, a firearm and special measures. Article 19. Limitations Applied to Officers 1. An officer of the Service shall be prohibited from: 1) engaging in the activity, specified in Article 22 of the Law “On the Public Service;” 2) becoming a member of political parties or political organisations and taking part in political activities; 3) striking; 4) administering according to powers given, the shares of any type of enterprise. 2. An officer may not accept gifts or services, either directly or indirectly linked with his position, which shall not apply to the premiums or gifts given by institutions of the system of the Interior or other State institutions and to the gifts presented and services rendered in accordance with international protocol or traditions that are customarily connected with his position. SECTION V POWERS OF OFFICERS Article 20. General Official Powers of Officers Officers the position and competence whereof allows of implementing the functions of the Service, in the borderline strip, State border protection zone, frontier zone, border crossing points, secured facilities and territories, territorial sea and frontier inland waters, shall implement these functions following the procedure established by legal acts and for this purpose, they shall have the right to: 1) verify the necessary documents of persons and means of transport, inspect means of transport, and in places where there is no Customs Office, examine freight documents; 2) conduct person’s search and baggage check, detain persons suspected of having violated the rules of crossing the State border or regulations of the customs, frontier zone or border crossing point, bring the violators to the official facilities of the Service or police or to neighbourhoods in rural areas, in order to establish the identities and to write up a record of violation of administrative law; 3) summon persons to the official facilities of the Service, police, or other law enforcement institution and obtain explanations thereof, concerning illegal crossing of the State border of which they are aware, circumstances of violations of the rules of the border crossing point operation, and if the summoned persons fail to present themselves without an important reason, to bring them in; 4) pursue violators of the State border throughout the entire territory of the Republic of Lithuania and apprehend them; 5) enter places of residence and domestic economy of citizens, and premises of enterprise, institutions, organisation and association at any hour, and stop and enter means of transport, pursuing persons suspected of having committed crimes and criminals hiding from law enforcement bodies, and also in seeking to intervene with and interrupt the committing of crimes. Upon refusal to obey, officers of the Service shall have the right to use force in opening premises and means of transport. This right shall also be given in instances of natural disasters and accidents. The prosecutor’s office shall be informed of such actions, without delay; 6) use means of communication and transport, belonging to natural and legal persons and enterprises not having the rights of legal persons when pursuing and apprehending violators of the State border and repelling an armed penetration into the territory of the country; 7) limit or interrupt communications across the State border temporarily when coping with natural disasters, dangerous or acutely dangerous infectious diseases or agents thereof or implementing quarantine measures, conducting frontier - search operations and in other extraordinary circumstances; 8) issue visas or permits to cross the State border, mark in due order travel documents that grant persons the right to cross the State border and, if necessary, seize such documents temporarily and seize documents presented by impostors and forged documents; 9) restrict temporarily movement by persons to places and areas controlled by the Service for the purpose of performing service; 10) operate within territories (on land and in waters) irrespectively of the right of ownership and types thereof, escort vessels and other means of transport and be in them; 11) take photographs and make sound and video recordings for the purpose of performing service without disturbing the inviolability of person’s privacy; 12) requisition and obtain on a gratis basis information necessary to implement guarding of the State border from State and municipal institutions and services; 13) use firearms and special measures: 14) remunerate natural and legal persons and enterprises, not having the rights of a legal person, for rendering active assistance to the Service. Article 21. Powers of Officers in Implementing Functions of Service at Sea 1. In the territorial sea and frontier inland waters the captain of a ship of the Service shall have the right to: 1) suggest to the captain of any vessel to raise and fly the colours of the State of ownership, if these are not flown; 2) question the captain of any vessel about the reason for his entering the waters of the Republic of Lithuania; 3) suggest that the captain of any vessel change the course, should he be following a course towards a region, where navigation is prohibited, or a course, which may lead to violation of the regulations of navigation; 4) force a vessel to head towards a specified port, and should the captain of the vessel fail to implement the submitted requirements, to escort or tow the apprehended vessel; 2. The captain of a ship of the Service shall have the right to intercept and inspect a vessel if: 1) the colours are not flown and question signals are ignored; 2) the request to change the course is not being implemented or other violations are committed with regards to the universally acknowledged requirements of international law applied to peaceful navigation in territorial waters; 3) the vessel is in a region which is prohibited for navigation; 4) the vessel is illegally fishing or engaging in economic, commercial or other activity, in violation of the procedure set by the legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania or norms of international law; 5) people are disembarked or embarked, freight is loaded or unloaded in non designated places or in designated places yet in impermissible manner or without appropriate permit, means of navigation are lowered into water, or aircraft take off or land aboard vessel; 6) crew members or passengers aboard the vessel damage navigational signs, communications cables, facilities and equipment which are the property of the Republic of Lithuania, situated at the bottom of the sea, in its underwater area or on the water surface; 7) the vessel is polluting the environment with wastes or materials, which are detrimental to human health and aquatic animals; 8) the vessel is violating the procedure of entering the territorial sea or of, navigating and presence therein; 9) the vessel engages in other operations contrary to peaceful navigation in territorial sea waters. 3. The captain of a ship of the Service shall have the right to intercept a vessel of a foreign state, with a view to apprehending person or to carrying out an investigation concerning a crime, committed in the course of the vessel’s sailing, when: 1) the outcomes of the crime affect the interests of the Republic of Lithuania or of persons; 2) the crime that is committed or is in progress disturbs public order in the Republic of Lithuania or violates the procedure of peaceful navigation in the territorial sea; 3) such measures are necessary, in order to prevent illegal circulation of arms, ammunition, explosives, and (
  3. or)explosive substances, narcotic, psychotropic, dangerous and (
  4. or)hazardous substances; 4) this is requested by the captain of a vessel which has entered the territorial sea of the Republic of Lithuania or a diplomatic representative or consular officer of the state where the vessel is registered. 4. The captain of a ship of the Service shall have the right to intercept or detain the vessel of a foreign state, if: 1) the vessel, in navigating in the territorial sea of the Republic of Lithuania, has accepted civil legal obligations or civil liability, or such obligations or liability are being applied to it; 2) court judgement is to be implemented by force or the vessel must be placed under arrest after leaving the internal waters. 5. The captain of a ship of the Service shall inform the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania regarding a vessel registered in a foreign state, which has been detained without delay. 6. The captain of a ship of the Service shall have the right to pursue and detain a vessel outside territorial sea of the Republic of Lithuania, until it enters the territorial sea of its own state or that of a third country, if the Service or other competent institutions of the State shall have grounds to think that, the vessel has violated the laws of the Republic of Lithuania and the attempt to intercept the vessel was initiated in the territorial sea waters of the Republic of Lithuania and thereafter the vessel was pursued incessantly. 7. The captain of a ship or aircraft of the Service, shall use International Code signals or other means prescribed in international agreements, in order to intercept vessels. 8. According to the results of inspection of an intercepted vessel, the captain of a ship of the Service may permit the vessel to proceed with sailing in or being in or suggest departing from the Republic of Lithuania or detain the vessel. 9. Each time, upon intercepting or detaining a vessel, a record of the proceedings shall be written in the Lithuanian and English languages. The record shall be signed by the captain of a ship of the Service and the captain of the vessel. One copy of the record shall be given to the captain of the vessel. The captain of the vessel may supplement the record with his remarks and explanations, in any language, or explain that in a separate document. 10. Officers shall also have the rights established by other laws and secondary acts and those established by international agreements of the Republic of Lithuania. 11. Aircraft and vessels of the Service vessels, protecting the State border shall be granted the right to: 1) use the air space, water, sea and river ports, airports, and aerodromes of the Republic of Lithuania without charge; 2) obtain meteorological, hydrographical, navigational and other information for navigation of vessels and flights of aircraft without charge. 12. The measures indicated in item four of paragraph one and paragraphs two -four and six , may not be applied to military vessels of foreign states or vessels employed for non-commercial use. Article 22. Conditions of Use of Firearms and Special Measures 1. Officers shall have the right to make use of firearms and special measures only in the instances defined by laws, taking into consideration the type of violation of law, the personality of the violator, and the particular situation. 2. Officers may use a firearm and special measures in instances whereby it shall otherwise be impossible to perform the official duties assigned to them without posing danger to their own life or that of other persons. 3. Circumstances permitting, one must give warning prior to the use of a firearm or of special measures, by shouting, firing a warning shot or other means. Article 23. Grounds for Using Firearm and Special Measures 1. An officer shall have the right to make use of a firearm: 1) in repelling an armed incursion into the territory of the Republic of Lithuania, or a secured facility or in preventing the seizure of an aircraft, vessel or other means of transport unless these are with passengers; 2) when a person, vessel, aircraft or other means of transport crosses the State border in a prohibited place or in a place not designated for international communication or in an authorised place yet in an impermissible manner and this poses substantial danger to life or health of the officer or another person or fails to comply with clearly stated requirements of the officer to stop, unless it was otherwise possible to detain them; 3) in detaining a land means of transport in the frontier zone, if its driver acts in such a manner that this poses substantial danger to life of health of the officer or another person, or fails to comply with clearly stated requirements of the officer to stop, unless it was otherwise possible to detain him; 4) in other instances stipulated by laws that regulate police activities. 2. An officer, in the line of his official duties, shall have the right to employ special measures (rubber truncheon, handcuffs, ties, gas, means of forced stopping of means of transport, combat and wrestling techniques and service dogs): 1) in repulsing an attack against officers and other persons, who are on duty in the frontier zone, border crossing point or secured facility: 2) in detaining violators of the State border or secured facility, who maliciously fail to obey the officer or resist him; 3) while freeing hostages; 4) while intervening with violations of law in the frontier zone, border crossing point or secured facility; 5) in repulsing attacks against secured officer facilities, buildings, single premises and means of transport or in freeing these objects when occupied; 6) in other instances stipulated by laws regulating police activity. 3. A firearm and special measures may be employed without warning when: 1) an officer or another person is attacked unexpectedly or using a firearm; 2) an attack is launched using combat equipment, vessel, aircraft or other means of transport; 3) armed resistance is offered; 4) freeing hostages; 5) in other instances stipulated by laws regulating police activities. 4. The use of firearms shall be reported to the prosecutor and the use of special measures to the immediate authority, and this shall be done without delay. 5. The use of firearms or special measures shall be prohibited: 1) against vessels, aircraft and other means of transport, with passengers; 2) against persons, who have crossed the border by chance and in full view of the officers, as a result of an accident or irresistible force; 3) in premises, where explosive substances, ammunition and for highly flammable materials, capable of posing danger to human life and health or public safety; are stored; 4) against persons, buildings, premises and means of transport having the right of immunity; 5) in assembly places, if this can hurt accidental persons; 6) against a person having a young child with him; 7) against women, minors and the handicapped with obvious indications of being handicapped, unless they themselves attack or resist, using arms. Article 24. Use of Weapons in Pursuit of Vessels at Sea 1. The captain of a ship of the Service may employ the weaponry of the ship against a pursued vessel (except for warships, or vessels used for non-commercial purposes, belonging to foreign states) only in exceptional cases after all possibilities have been exhausted and the measures employed proved insufficient to stop the vessel or force it to obey. In this instance the ship of the Service shall fire a warning shot into the air, and subsequently, one across the bow into the water and one behind the stern into the water. If the vessel fails to stop after that, the Service boat shall have the right to open fire against it. 2. In using weaponry against a vessel it shall not be sought to sink it. Article 25. Common Obligations of Officers 1. In implementing the functions of the Service in guarding the State border and carrying out border control, stipulated in this Law, an officer of the Service shall: 1) upon receiving a report of criminal activity or another type of violation of the law being committed, or himself being witness to an incident, employ immediate measures in intervening with a crime or another violation of law being committed, secure the scene of the incident, establish the witnesses of criminal act, apprehend and bring to a Service or police facility the person, who has committed the crime or an administrative offence and inform the Service or police facility thereof; 2) ensure the individual rights and rightful interests of the person apprehended or delivered to a Service facility, render immediate medical assistance to a person who has become a victim of a violation of law or is in feeble condition; 3) employ all possible measures to save the property of person, State, public or other organisations in the event of natural disasters, catastrophes, accidents and other extraordinary situations; 4) introduce oneself while performing the official duties. Upon request by a person, the officer of the Service must produce Service an official badge or identification card; 5) maintain the secrecy of confidential information, unless otherwise required according to the official duties or rights; 2. In performing his duties, an officer of the Service must respect and defend human dignity, ensure and protect human rights and freedoms. Article 26. Liability of Officers 1. Measures of punitive, administrative, material and criminal liability may be applied to officers for illegal actions according to the procedure established by laws,. 2. Officers shall not be liable for the harm to property and physical condition caused to the violator of the law, who at the time of apprehension failed to obey or resisted the officers, performing official duties, unless this was done in violation of law and exceeding the limits of the lawfulness of apprehending. 3. Performance of a knowingly unlawful order, demand or instruction shall not relieve officers from liability. 4. If the officers have violated the rights or lawful interests of an individual, caused material damage to a person, these rights must be renewed, and the material damage must be restored. 5. Damage which has been caused to a natural or legal person or enterprises not having the right of legal persons, by officers in the line of official duties, shall be compensated by the State according to the procedure established by laws. CHAPTER III FINAL PROVISIONS Article 27. Official Uniforms, Distinguishing Insignia, Special Ranks, Officer Identification Cards and Social Guarantees 1. Officers of the Service shall wear uniforms of the border police officer with the distinguishing insignia from the coming into force of this Law until such time as, the Government or an institution authorised by it shall approve the official uniform and distinguishing insignia of the officers of the Service. 2. Officers of the Service shall retain the special ranks they held before the reorganisation. 3. Upon coming into force of this Law, identification cards of border police officer shall be valid until their validity expires, however for no longer than one year. 4. The social guarantees of police officers shall be applied to officers of the Service. Article 28. Validity of International Agreements of Republic of Lithuania Should provisions, other than those stipulated in this Law, be found in an international agreement of the Republic of Lithuania, the provisions of the international agreement shall apply. Article 29. Proposal for the Government During a six-month period following the coming into force of this Law, the Government shall: 1) reorganise the Border Police Department under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania into the State Border Guard Service under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania; 2) draft and submit to Seimas draft laws, and also approve or change other legal acts, required for implementation of the provisions of this Law. Article 30. Repealed Legal Act Upon coming into force of this Law, the Law “On the Amendment and Supplement of the Law of the Republic of Lithuania on the Police, Provisional Law of the Republic of Lithuania On National Service and Law of the Republic of Lithuania on State Defence Service,” shall be repealed. Article 31. Coming into Force of the Law This Law shall come into force from November 1, 2000. I promulgate this Law passed by the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania. PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC VALDAS ADAMKUS

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