Annotation

The article examines the specific features of regulating the relations of socially oriented non-profit organizations (SONPOs) through internal corporate acts. It elucidates the concept and legal nature of such acts, outlines their types, and situates them within the hierarchy of regulatory sources inside an organization. A thorough analysis is conducted of the normative legal framework, including provisions of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation and NGO legislation that govern internal organizational documents, as well as judicial practice encompassing the positions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and arbitration courts. Special attention is devoted to issues of legal uncertainty: the distinction between local normative acts and corporate acts, the correlation of internal acts with charters and the imperative requirements of legislation. Throughout the exposition the author provides commentary and critical remarks, highlighting gaps and contested issues of “corporate rule-making” in the NGO sector. The article concludes that internal corporate acts play an increasingly significant role in the activities of socially oriented NGOs and underscores the need to balance the autonomy of internal regulation with adherence to legal guarantees protecting the participants in these relations. However, in judicial practice, there is no unified approach to understanding the role and nature of the acts in question, which can be corrected through clarifications from higher courts (the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation).