The urgency of the stated in the article the problem stems from the fact that in modern conditions when the information has become not only a means of knowledge, the subject of communication but also a means of control, impact on the socio-economic relations, the issues of formation and state regulation of the information space occur. The purpose of the article is to determine the mechanism of legal regulation of information and the creation of structures of information law. On the basis of various scientific approaches category information space is regarded as a universal sphere of information circulation, as a set of objects of information relations and as a system of information relations, which are the subject of special legal regulation. The main object of the study is mechanism of information relations legal regulation, its consistency and specificity. The leading method of this issue investigation is the simulation method which allows to reconstruct a model of social relations legal regulation, chosen by the legislator by examining the reasons that prompted the legislator to take a decision and identify main ideas laid the basis for the legislator legal model. Subjecting the study of the Kazakhstan information legislation, the authors seek to identify inherent in any development of the modern state legal ideas that underlie the regulation of the information space. As a result, the features of the mechanisms in information space legal regulation are revealed, the stages of information legislation development are evaluated. The authors studied different scientific definitions of information, information society, common information space, information resources, information infrastructure, legal and informational relationships and information law. In order to justify the need for the provision of information law the analysis of national legal system was conducted. There was proposed a system of information law.

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