On May 13, Deputy Minister of Justice Dang Hoang Oanh chaired the Council for appraisal of the draft Law amending and supplementing 11 laws in the fields of military and defense.
Accordingly, 11 laws include: Law on Defense; Law on Military Army of the Vietnam People's Army; Professional military law, workers and defense officials; Law on military service; Vietnam Border Law; People's Defense Law; Law on reserve force; Civil defense law; Law on management and protection of defense works and military zones; Law on militia and self -defense; Law on National Defense and Security Education.
The Law on National Defense amends and supplements 3 articles on authority such as defense areas (Clause 1, article 9), martial law (Clause 3, article 21), strictness (art. 22)...
Amend and supplement a number of provisions of the Law on Professional Soldiers, Workers and National Defense Officials. In which, amending and supplementing Article 27 (dismissal of reserve professional soldiers).
Amend and supplement a number of provisions of the Law on Military Service. Accordingly, regarding the arrangement of the apparatus of the political system on the organization of local government at 2 levels (commune and provincial levels), amending and supplementing 18 articles on authority.
In particular, the authority to decide to recognize the permanent militia to complete the implementation of the NVQS in the peacetime commander of the District Military Command (DP) on the commander of the Provincial Military Headquarters; Transferring the authority to order citizens to register NVQS for the first time, removed from the list of NVQS of the commander of the District Military Committee to the Chairman of the People's Committee of the commune.
Supplementing the authority of the Chairman of the provincial People's Committee shall decide to establish regional health examination councils at the request of the Department of Health; decide on the list of calling citizens to enlist and fulfill their obligations to join the People's Public Security; The decision to postpone enlistment, exemption from enlistment from the Chairman of the district People's Committee to the Chairman of the provincial People's Committee.
Supplement the authority of the Chairman of the People's Committee at the commune level to issue an order to call each citizen to join the army and perform his duty to join the People's Public Security; order to call for early recruitment and health check-ups for military personnel...
According to Colonel Nguyen Viet Dung - Director of the Legal Department, Ministry of National Defense, the draft Law focuses on amending and supplementing a number of articles on position, role, authority, functions and tasks in the military and defense sector related to the organization of local government at 2 levels to ensure consistency with the provisions of the Constitution, the Law on Organization of Local Government (amended) and relevant legal provisions.
