Authority to decide on exemption from military service

Lao Dong Newspaper Legal Consulting Office replied:

Clause 1, Article 42 of the 2015 Law on Military Service stipulates: The Chairman of the District People's Committee decides to postpone military service and exempt citizens specified in Article 41 of this Law from military service.

Clause 2, Article 41 of the 2015 Law on Military Service stipulates exemption from military service for the following citizens:

a) Children of martyrs, children of first-class disabled soldiers;

b) A brother or a younger brother of a martyr;

c) One child of a second-class war invalid; one child of a sick soldier with a labor capacity reduction of 81% or more; one child of a person infected with Agent Orange with a labor capacity reduction of 81% or more;

d) Persons doing essential work who are not soldiers or People's Police;

d) Cadres, civil servants, public employees, and youth volunteers mobilized to work in areas with especially difficult socio-economic conditions as prescribed by law for 24 months or more.

Thus, the Chairman of the District People's Committee has the right to decide to exempt from military service according to the above regulations.