On the morning of June 25, with 432/434 delegates present voting in favor, the National Assembly officially passed the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents (VBQPPL). The law takes effect from July 1, 2025.
Before the delegates voted to pass the law, Minister of Justice Nguyen Hai Ninh said that in Clauses 1, 3 and 4, Article 1, the draft law has added the decentralization authority of the Provincial People's Council; there is no regulation on decentralization in the legal documents of the Commune People's Committee.
Supplement the authority and form of legal documents of the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and expand the scope of promulgating legal documents of the People's Council and People's Committee at the commune level in accordance with the corresponding tasks and powers in the Law on Organization of Local Government.
The draft law maintains the provisions on socio-political organization, including: Implementing social criticism; proposing legislative tasks; proposing the development of laws and resolutions of the National Assembly, decrees and resolutions of the National Assembly Standing Committee; collecting opinions on the preparation of policy proposals and drafting projects; proposing to explain the Constitution, laws, decrees and resolutions; at the same time, revising the names of organizations to become "political - social organizations".
According to the Minister of Justice, an important new point in the draft law is the official regulation of the National Law Portal, which has been operated since May 31, 2025 under the direction of the Prime Minister.
This portal acts as an official online platform for people and businesses to access legal information, and can also participate in giving comments in the process of drafting and promulgating legal documents.
The draft Law has added a regulation on posting draft legal documents on the National Law Portal at all stages, including drafting, reviewing and documents of the President, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuracy and related documents.
Transitional regulations on the effectiveness of legal documents due to the arrangement and organization of the apparatus, Minister Nguyen Hai Ninh said that, in response to the opinions of National Assembly deputies, the draft law separates the content in Clause 4, Article 72 into a separate Article regulating the handling of legal documents of local authorities at the district level from the date the Law amends and supplements a number of articles of the Law on Promulgation of Legal documents take effect.
At the same time, unify the regulations on the deadline for handling legal documents until February 28, 2027 to review and decide on the application of legal documents that are in effect, especially legal documents at the district level.
The Law adds cases of applying legal documents to administrative units that are separated, merged, or have adjusted their boundaries, specifically: 4 cases regulating the effectiveness of space, in which 3 cases apply to legal documents of administrative units at the same level when separating, merging, or adjusting the boundary (cases of merging, separating, and merging part of the boundary) and 1 case applies to legal documents of a superior State agency applied to a lower-level administrative unit in which the lower-level administrative unit is separated, merged, or adjusted.
The general principle is that the legal documents are valid in space for any administrative unit and will continue to be valid for that administrative unit until they are amended, supplemented, replaced, or abolished, except in cases where one administrative unit receives a part of the boundary of another administrative unit.
