Legal foundations of the activities of commissions for minors and their rights protection:from collisions of subordinate legislation to the new federal law

The commissions for minors and their rights protection play the leading role among the bodies providing juvenile deliquency prevention activities in the RF. During the study of the legal regulation of such commissions’ activities some collisions were discovered. The provision ?On the commissions for minors and their rights protection? approved by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of June, 3, 1967, is currently obsolete but still acting. The resolution of the Government of the RF ?On the approval of the model provision on the commissions for minors and their rights protection? of November, 16, 2013, N995 was enforced. The temporary act is aimed at elimination of legislative gaps in the legal regulation of commissions’ activities, it is a subject to the obsolete provision which is not invalidated yet. It does not regulate a number of significant issues concerning organization of the commissions’ activities. All these facts create some problems in law enforcement practice. The Federal Law ?On the principles of the organization of the commissions for minors and their rights protection activities? could overcome present collisions, but its project has some faults relevant to the above mentioned provisions. It is necessary to revise the mechanism of commissions’ forming, to releasethem from the function to try juvenile delinquency cases and empower law enforcement agencies with it. Basing on the research results some suggestions on the improvement of legislative regulation of the activities of the commissions for minors and their rights protection are stated.