Chapter II
NATIONAL SECURITY PROTECTION
Article 14.- Tasks of national security protection
1. Protecting the political regime and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam State, protecting independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of the Fatherland.
2. Protecting the ideological and cultural security, the national unity bloc, the legitimate rights and interests of agencies, organizations and individuals.
3. Protecting the security in the economic, defense, external relation domains and other national interests.
4. Protecting the State secrets and important national security targets.
5. Preventing, detecting, stopping, frustrating and excluding all activities of infringing upon the national security and dangers threatening the national security.
Article 15.- Basic measures to protect the national security
1. The basic measures for national security protection include mass agitation, legislation, diplomatic, economic, technical-scientific, professional and arms measures.
2. The contents, conditions, competence, order, procedures and responsibility for application of the measures prescribed in Clause 1 of this Article shall be prescribed by law.
Article 16.- Building the people’s security and the people’s security disposition
1. To mobilize the entire population to participate in the national security protection movement; to educate, mobilize State officials and employees, laborers and all citizens to participate in building localities, agencies and organizations into strong ones; to build the national unity bloc; to raise the people’s material and spiritual life.
2. To formulate, and organize the implementation of, strategies, policies and plans for national security protection in association with the building and consolidation of the political system, economic, cultural, social and external relation development in close combination with building the entire-people’s national defense.
3. To enhance the socialist legislation, to build and perfect the system of legislation on national security protection; to specifically define the tasks, powers, responsibilities and obligations of agencies, organizations and individuals in national security protection.
4. To build the national security protection forces into strong ones; to elaborate plans and to organize and arrange forces as well as necessary means for taking initiative in protecting the national security in all circumstances.
Article 17.- Rights and obligations of citizens in national security protection
1. To join in the national security protection forces and perform the national security protection tasks according to law provisions.
2. To denounce acts of infringing upon the national security, acts of abusing the performance of national security protection tasks to infringe upon the interests of the State, the legitimate rights and interests of organizations and individuals.
3. To detect, propose the administrations or the national security protection agencies to redress loopholes and shortcomings in the implementation of legislation on national security protection.
4. To detect, provide in time information and/or documents related to, activities of infringing upon the national security to the nearest administration or national security protection agencies.
5. To act upon the requests of national security protection agencies according to law provisions.
6. To assist, create conditions for, responsible agencies and persons to apply preventive measures, detect, stop and struggle against activities of infringing upon the national security.
Article 18.- Responsibilities of agencies and organizations in national security protection
1. Agencies and organizations shall, within the ambit of their respective tasks and powers, have to organize the performance of tasks defined in Article 14 of this Law and other law provisions on national security protection.
2. To apply measures to protect the internal political security, mobilize the strengths of agencies, organizations for the performance of national security protection tasks; to include the national security protection tasks into professional programs, plans and activities of agencies, organizations.
3. To educate and mobilize all members of their agencies or organizations as well as people to participate in national security protection.
4. To detect, provide in time information and/or documents related to, activities of infringing upon the national security to the nearest national security protection agencies or administrations.
5. To act upon requests of national security protection agencies as provided for by law.
Article 19.- Responsibilities of Vietnam Fatherland Front and its member organizations in national security protection
Vietnam Fatherland Front and its member organizations shall, within the ambit of their respective tasks and powers, have to propagate and mobilize people to build the national unity bloc, to strictly observe the legislation on national security protection; to supervise the observance of legislation on national security protection by organizations and individuals.
Article 20.- To protect the national security upon the appearance of state of emergency, state of war
Upon the appearance of the state of emergency, the state of war, the national security protection shall comply with law provisions on the state of emergency, the state of war.
The Defense and Security Council shall have to mobilize all forces and capabilities of the country for the defense of the Fatherland; perform the special tasks and exercise the special powers assigned by the National Assembly.
Article 21.- Application of a number of necessary measures upon the appearance of dangers threatening the national security but not to the extent of proclaiming the state of emergency
1. Upon the appearance of a threat against the national security, which is, however, not serious enough for promulgation of the state of emergency, the Prime Minister may decide to apply some following measures:
a) Intensifying the protection of important targets;
b) Organizing sentry posts to limit or control people and means operating at certain hours in certain areas;
c) Conducting special control at border gates of shipments by air, by sea, inland water, railways and land;
d) Limiting or temporarily ceasing the transportation, use of inflammables, explosives, toxins, toxic chemicals, radioactive substances under the lawful use rights of agencies, organizations or individuals; strictly controlling the transportation and use of assorted weapons, support tools;
e) Banning, disbanding or restricting big rallies and activities of individuals, organizations, which are deemed harmful to the national security;
f) Restricting or suspending operations of theatres, cinemas and/or other public-activity places;
g) Controlling the use of communications means in a locality or a certain area;
h) Forcing the persons who commit acts harmful to the national security to leave important political, economic, security or defense areas or not to get out of their residence places;
i) Mobilizing human and material resources for the performance of national security protection tasks.
2. Agencies, organizations and individuals must obey the orders and/or decisions of agencies and/or persons that apply measures prescribed in Clause 1 of this Article.
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Luật an ninh quốc gia 2004 (Bản Word)
