The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: Chernobyl nuclear power plant emergency relief actors and Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident victims as a result of the social protection law chapter I General provisions article 1. The law is applied in the following terms: 1) the causal link with the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) emergency relief jobs — in this statutory authority on the disease, disability and death causes related to the Chernobyl accident consequences;
2) Chernobyl zone of alienation: the Chernobyl accident resulted in radioactive polluted territory of the USSR in accordance with the radiation safety norms (USSR 1986-1987 law set out in 30 kilometers zone) in 1986 forced residents were evacuated;
3) Chernobyl evacuation zone — statutory Chernobyl radioactive contaminated as a result of an accident in the territory of Ukraine in accordance with the decisions of the Government of the USSR 1986-1987 was forcibly evacuated residents and outside the Chernobyl alienation zone;
4) compensation: the Chernobyl accident relief member or, in the case of his death his former dependent dependant family members to be granted in the amount of money that Chernobyl accident relief compensated for loss of income for the participants due to the loss of functional capacity, but dependant — loss of livelihoods.
2. article. The law aims to provide: 1) Chernobyl accident relief actors and the Chernobyl accident resulted in the victim status;
2) social guarantees for Chernobyl emergency relief to members, their dependants and persons as a result of Chernobyl accident victims.
3. article. The right to this statutory social guarantees are citizens of the Republic of Latvia, non-citizens, aliens and stateless persons who have a permanent residence permit.
Chapter II the Chernobyl emergency relief actors and the Chernobyl accident victims as a result of the status determination and accountancy article 4. About the Chernobyl accident relief Member shall be a person who took part in the Chernobyl operation, Chernobyl emergency relief works, and other emergency caused by Chernobyl in the Chernobyl alienation zone during the period from 26 April 1986 to 31 December 1990 if: 1), the employer sent the person concerned works of Chernobyl alienation zone;
2), the person concerned home commanding staff of the institutions or the composition of the staff of the rank served in the Chernobyl alienation zone;
the person concerned shall 3) military commanding personnel or personnel in or line as a reserve for the military service of the person transferred was called up to the special training and involved in the Chernobyl accident relief works (regardless of the location and the works carried out).
5. article. The result of the Chernobyl accident victims to be recognized: 1) a person who was evacuated from Chernobyl alienation zone or Chernobyl mandatory evacuation zones, evacuation of the children, who at the time was in the intrauterine stage of development;
2) any person who, in the Latvian SSR, the employer sent the Chernobyl accident at work resulting in radioactive polluted area outside the Chernobyl alienation zone;
3) child, which is not directly affected by radioactive exposure received by one of his parents, participating in the Chernobyl accident consequences.
6. article. Chernobyl emergency relief actors and the Chernobyl accident victims as a result of registration is carried out (creating a person referred to in the single State Register) and Chernobyl emergency relief actors and the Chernobyl accident victims as a result of the health situation is regularly monitored, as well as disease, disability and death of causation with the Chernobyl accident Paula stradiņa hospitals and clinical occupational radiation Medical Center (hereinafter referred to as the Centre) of the Ministry of Welfare.
7. article. Center for each of the Chernobyl emergency relief actors and the Chernobyl accident victim as a result of the Cabinet of Ministers issued a specific pattern of that person's status. The certificate shall be issued on the basis of one of the following documents: 1 a certificate of military service), the war Commissariat a certificate issued by the military or a certificate issued by the archive, where is the mention that the person in question has participated in the Chernobyl accident relief works;
2) issued by the employer a statement certifying that the person concerned is sent to Chernobyl emergency relief or work on the Chernobyl accident resulted in contaminated territory outside the Chernobyl alienation zone, and which is a mark that a person has participated in the said deed;
3) former residence of the people's Deputy Council issued a certificate which certifies that a person in accordance with the USSR or the USSR Government decision of Ukraine have been evacuated to the Latvian SSR from the Chernobyl accident resulted in radioactive polluted territory.
Chapter III compensation and State social allowances, article 8. (1) The right to damages is: 1) Chernobyl accident relief, which has a causal relationship with a specific disability Chernobyl emergency relief work;
2) Chernobyl accident relief member of a certain degree of loss of capacity of 10 to 25 percent and its causal relationship with Chernobyl emergency relief work;
3) the dead of the first subparagraph of paragraph 1 and 2 of that person's family members with disabilities: who were the survivors.
(2) The damages is not the right person which receives other State disability, age, retirement or survivor's pension.
9. article. (1) damages of this law article 8, first paragraph, point 1 and 2 those persons in the granting and conversion in the same order and about as compensation for persons up to 1 January 1997, has suffered an accident at work or an occupational disease that is detected.
(2) if the disease organism caused by morphological changes and functional disorders after three years of observation, of 26 April 1986, be regarded as irreparable, the Chernobyl accident relief Member's disability or incapacity to a degree of loss of 10 to 25 percent down, without repeating the references of the period of investigation, provided that such examination again ask yourself Chernobyl emergency relief.
(3) the damages this law, article 8, paragraph 3, first subparagraph, the persons referred to in the same procedure and in the amount as damages dependant, if a survivor is the cause of death until the 1997 January 1, accident at work or an occupational disease found.
10. article. (1) article 8 of this law, the first subparagraph of paragraph 1 and 3 persons may obtain damages and national pensions granted according to the law "on State pensions", or damages and the State social security benefit, granted in accordance with the law "on social assistance".
(2) article 8 of this law, the first subparagraph of paragraph 1, the persons referred to in the payment of compensation from the disability, maternity and sickness special budget, but article 8, first paragraph, point 3 of the persons referred to in-State pension special budget.
(3) this law article 8, first paragraph, (2) the persons referred to in the case of death of persons dependent on them former dependant family members compensation paid from the State budget.
11. article. (1) State social benefits for Chernobyl accident relief party, and died in Chernobyl emergency relief for family members (hereinafter benefit) is granted in the following cases: 1) Chernobyl accident relief member — if you have a particular disability a causal link with the Chernobyl accident relief work;
2 dead in the Chernobyl accident) relief for family members — if the participant's cause of death is a disease that has a specific causal link with the Chernobyl emergency relief work. On the Chernobyl accident, the deceased's relief, the participant's family within the meaning of this law are to be considered as his children, not older than 18 years of age (including children who learn in the medium or higher education institutions the day section and not older than 24 years), as well as the surviving spouse who enters into marriage, and other parents and grandchildren, if the spouse, parents and grandchildren have been dependent on the deceased.
(2) benefits and receiving the order is determined by the Cabinet of Ministers.
(3) the Allowance is paid from the State budget.
Chapter IV medical assistance

12. article. Chernobyl accident relief participant and Chernobyl emergency results in the injured party's right to the Chernobyl accident resulting diseases outpatient treatment for the purchase of medicines compensation Cabinet.
13. article. Chernobyl accident relief and Chernobyl accident results in the injured person's minimum health services and within the framework of the national programme are exempt from contributions to the treatment of the patient (also second stage of medical rehabilitation institutions) and social rehabilitation institutions.
14. article. Entitlement to free services or paid benefits and dental prosthetics dental Cabinet in order are: 1) the Chernobyl accident relief participant;
2) person, which the Latvian employers were sent to Chernobyl accident resulted in contaminated territory outside the Chernobyl alienation zone, if this person has a certain disability causal relationship with that work.
15. article. The right to receive, once a year free of social rehabilitation services and the medical rehabilitation services after prescription is: 1) Chernobyl accident relief participant;
2) child under 18 years of age, who were evacuated from Chernobyl zone of alienation, or Chernobyl evacuation zone required, even if the child were at the time of evacuation in intrauterine development stage;
3) child under 18 years of age, which is not directly affected by radioactive exposure received by one of his parents, participating in the Chernobyl accident consequences.
16. article. Article 15 of this law in social rehabilitation services financed from the State budget, the other in chapter IV of this law, certain medical measures — from national specialty health care budget.
Transitional provisions 1. Invalidity pensions and survivors ' pensions granted before the date of entry into force of the law, and the amount of compensation calculated in accordance with this law, are not recalculated unless the person with disability pension, the amount of compensation varies across the degree of loss (percent) or severity of the disability. The pension shall be recalculated according to the following formula: P = 90% VS x d, where P — the amount of the pension (Ls);
VS — wages — the Central Statistical Bureau estimated average monthly gross wages of public sector workers for the previous quarter (Ls);
Or — the loss of professional work capacity degree (percentage).
2. the Ministry of Foreign Affairs negotiations with the Russian Federation, Ukraine and the Republic of the Republic of Belarus addressed the issue of the transnational agreement on compensation and social guarantees for Chernobyl emergency relief actors and the Chernobyl accident victims as a result of the Latvian population.
3. With the entry into force of this law shall lapse: 1) Supreme Council of 15 May 1991 decision "about the measures to be taken to improve the Chernobyl accident victims as a result of population of the Republic of Latvia the social" (the Republic of Latvia Supreme Council and the Government of the rapporteur, 1991, 27./28.nr.);
2) Supreme Council 13 June 1991 decision "on it, and is run by the Republic of Latvia Supreme Council decision" about the measures to be taken to improve the Chernobyl accident victims as a result of population of the Republic of Latvia the social "(the Republic of Latvia Supreme Council and Government Informant, 1991,/30.nr.).
The law shall enter into force on 1 January 2000.
The law adopted by the Parliament in 1999 on September 9.
State v. President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga in Riga in 1999 on September 29.