Law “On state secrets” defines legal basis and integrated system of protection of state secrets on providing
national security for the benefit of the Republic of Kazakhstan, it regulates social relations which come out of
referring the data to state secrets, secreting them, ruling them, protecting and disclosing these secrets. Definitions to the following notions are given in the law: “state secrets”, “state secret”, “confidential information”,
“secret sign”, “data sources which are state secrets”, “protection system of state secrets”.