On the morning of September 5, at the 49th session, the National Assembly Standing Committee gave opinions on the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Judicial Records.
Informing about the draft law submission at the meeting, Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Long - Deputy Minister of Public Security - said that the draft was amended in the direction of expanding the purpose of managing the judicial records and the right to request the issuance of criminal records, providing information on criminal records.
This is to comply with the policy of the Government and the Prime Minister and meet the need for state management to know about the judicial records of current state agencies and organizations.
Amend the model of the Judicial Record Database from 2 levels of decentralization, not concentrated to the model of the Judicial Record Database at one level of centralization and unification; at the same time, amend the regulations on receiving and updating judicial record information to suit the model of the Judicial Record Database at one level and the functions and tasks of the Ministry of Public Security.
Amend in the specific direction of "Central Military Court" and complete the regulation on the Central Military Court's task of building a specialized database on the records of people sentenced by the Military Court and providing judicial records information to the Department of Professional records of the Ministry of Public Security to ensure the Judicial Records Database is centralized and unified.
Amend the names of some criminal records to comply with the provisions of the Penal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code.
Amend and supplement regulations on the use of criminal records to overcome the abuse of criminal records No. 2 and in accordance with legal regulations on personal data protection.
Regarding some additional contents, Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Long said that the draft adds a number of regulations related to sources of judicial records information to comply with relevant legal regulations in providing judicial records information to ensure compliance with the addition of sources of judicial records information.
Supplementing the responsibility of the investigation agency, court agency, and prosecution agency in providing information about the new crime is information related to prosecution, investigation, and prosecution of people with a Judicial Record to the Department of Professional records of the Ministry of Public Security, Provincial Public Security.
To reduce the situation of people requesting to issue criminal records, the draft law has added regulations on providing criminal records information to agencies and organizations in the form of documents.
The procedure for issuing a criminal record is regulated in the direction of simplifying the maximum dossier to request a criminal record, only including the Declaration Requesting a Judicial Record and personal documents (citizen identification card, ID card, passport, etc.). The time for issuing Judicial Records is reduced to 5 days.
Supplementing regulations on not distinguishing administrative boundaries in handling administrative procedures for issuing judicial records to comply with current legal regulations, accordingly, individuals have the right to submit documents requesting the issuance of judicial records directly at any provincial or commune-level police to most convenient for people.
Supplementing regulations on records, procedures and time limit for issuing criminal records to people under 14 years old, the time limit for issuing criminal records is shortened to 3 days.
