LEGAL NATURE OF THE INSTITUTE OF DISMISSAL OF PUNISHMENT IN CONNECTION WITH DISEASE Hakimov Mehrojidin Dustmurodovich, competitor. <...> Place of study: Institute of Philosophy, Political Science and Law, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan. <...> Department: chair criminal law. -mail: mehridin12.11.90@mail.ru.8 Annotation: The article is devoted to the problems of the institute exemption from punishment due to illness. <...> Based on the analysis of the legal literature and the criminal law, this article contains a number of proposals for further improvement of the criminal and criminal procedural legislation on this issue. <...>