The Government has just issued Decree 120/2025/ND-CP regulating the division of authority of local authorities at both levels in the field of state management of the Ministry of Justice.
This Decree stipulates the division of the authority of local authorities according to the model of organizing local government at 2 levels in the field of state management of the Ministry of Justice; the order and procedures for implementing administrative procedures when determining the authority from the authority of the district level to the commune level or provincial level.
Decree 120/2025/ND-CP specifically stipulates the division of authority when organizing local government at 2 levels in the fields of: Judicial administration (citizenship, adoption); certification; mediation at the grassroots level, state compensation.
In the field of civil status, Article 4 of Decree 120/2025/ND-CP specifically stipulates the authority to register civil status: People's Committees of communes, wards, and special zones that exercise the authority to register civil status as prescribed in Clause 2, Article 7, Chapter III of the 2014 Law on Civil status, Articles 1, 29, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 38, 39 and 41 of Decree No. 123/2015/ND-CP dated November 15, 2015 of the Government detailing a number of articles and measures to implement the Law on Civil status are amended and supplemented in 2020, 2022, 2025;...
Individuals have the right to choose to carry out administrative procedures for household registration at the household registration agency where they reside; the individual's place of residence is determined according to the provisions of the law on residence.
In case the individual chooses to carry out administrative procedures for household registration not at the People's Committee of the commune where he or she resides or temporarily resides, the People's Committee of the commune where he or she receives the request is responsible for supporting people to submit the household registration documents online to the competent authority as prescribed.
Commune-level People's Committees shall conduct state management of civil status in localities; update, exploit and use the Electronic Housing Database within the scope of local management; synthesize and evaluate the implementation of civil status registration, management and statistics of civil status registration data to report to the provincial People's Committees.
Judicial and civil status civil servants help commune-level People's Committees carry out civil status registration according to the provisions of Article 4 of this Decree; synthesize and evaluate the implementation of civil status registration, management and statistics on civil status registration in the area.
This Decree takes effect from July 1, 2025.
