The new law passed by the National Assembly has amended and supplemented a number of articles of the Law on Military Service (NVQS) in Article 4.
Accordingly, the new law stipulates that evasion of military service is the act of not complying with the decision to call for military service registration; the decision to call for preliminary selection of military service health; the decision to call for military service health examination; the decision to call for military service enlistment; decisions and orders to concentrate training, drills, and tests to be ready for mobilization and combat readiness.
The new law also amends regulations on prohibited acts specified in Article 10 of the current law. Accordingly, the current law strictly prohibits fraud in military service health checks.
The new law passed supplements a strict ban on fraud in military service registration; military service preliminary selection; military service health check-ups.
Article 49 of the new amended and supplemented law stipulates the regime and policies of citizens during the time of military service registration, preliminary selection, examination, and health check-up.
The law stipulates that citizens working at agencies and organizations during the time of military service registration, preliminary selection, medical examination, and military service health check-up are entitled to full salary, train and bus fares, and current allowances.
During the time citizens come to register for military service, preliminary selection, examination, and health check-up, they are guaranteed food, accommodation, and travel expenses.
Previously, in the report explaining, receiving, and revising, the Government stated that there were delegates' opinions suggesting that direct participation in NVQS could be replaced by financial contributions, payment of NVQS tax and NVQS tax money.
Regarding this issue, the Government's report stated that this content has also been studied by the functional agencies of the Ministry of National Defense in the process of preliminary and final reviews of the implementation of the Law on Military Service.
This is a content with a very large social impact, with content that is not clear, has no basis, and needs time to research and evaluate specifically and thoroughly.
In this amendment and supplement, contents are only focused on institutionalizing the Party's guiding viewpoints, the conclusions of the Politburo and the Secretariat on local military organization, building a regular commune-level military command, reorganizing the regional defense command in accordance with the 2-level government organization, so the Government has not proposed contents on this policy.
Accepting the opinions of delegates, in the coming time, when comprehensively amending the Law on Military Service, the Government will study and thoroughly evaluate policies and propose specific contents, submitting them to competent authorities for consideration and decision.
Regarding the proposal to have strong sanctions regulations for those who strictly comply with the Law on Military Service, the Government also clearly stated that it will listen to delegates' opinions, and in the coming time, the Government will continue to study, amend, and supplement Decree 218/2025 stipulating penalties for administrative violations in the field of national defense and cryptography.
The research, amendment, and supplementation will be in the direction of increasing the appropriate penalty level to be deterrent; process, time for handling violations, statute of limitations, and effective date of enforcement.
The new law takes effect from September 1, 2026.
