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title: "Military Registration Documents"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/military-and-national-security-law-en/military-registration-documents-en"
field: "Military & National Security Law"
description: "Military registration documents: registration at 17, summons, employer duties and the 15-day court appeal. Legal.ge."
updated: "2026-10-15"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Military Registration Documents

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## The Duty of Military Registration and Exceptions

Under the Defence Code a person's military registration is mandatory. Not subject to registration are: a woman without a military-registration specialty (save where she has the specialty or expresses the wish); a person in or having completed alternative labour service; a person who has reached the age limit established for the reserve; a person serving a sentence of imprisonment; and a person with a disability status. A woman with a military-registration specialty, or one who has expressed the wish to be on register or to serve, is registered; a woman without a specialty who was entered on register by her own will may refuse service before appointment to a position and is then removed from the register.

Registration is carried out according to the place of registration, or, absent one, the actual place of residence. For registration a person is released from work or studies with retention of the place and of the remuneration or scholarship. The registration procedure is determined by government decree on the Ministry's proposal — the detailed procedure lies in that act, not in the Code itself.

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### Who is exempt from registration?

A woman without a specialty, a person in or having completed alternative service, a person of reserve age, a prisoner and a person with disability status.

### When is conscript registration performed?

From 1 January to 30 April of the year of turning 17, by summons; a 17-27-year-old not on the register is entered upon discovery.

### What document does the employer need?

Before hiring or enrolling a 17-27-year-old — a document confirming presence on or removal from the register.

### Within how many days is the decision appealed?

In court — within 15 calendar days of official notification.