Chương I Luật phổ biến, giáo dục pháp luật 2012: Những quy định chung

Chapter I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1. Scope of regulation

This Law stipulates the rights being informed about law and the duty to study, learn law of citizens; content and form of law popularization and education; duty of competent agencies, organizations and individuals; and conditions ensuring for law popularization and education.

Article 2. The rights being informed about law and the duty to study, learn law of citizens

1. The citizens have the right being informed about law and have the duty to take the initiative in studying, learning law

2. The State shall ensure and facilitate for the citizens performing the rights being informed about law.

Article 3. Policy of the State on law popularization and education

1. Law popularization and education is duty of entire the policy system, in which the State takes the leading role.

2. The State shall ensure necessary resources for task about law popularization and education.

3. Implementing socialization in law popularization and education; commending and rewarding agencies, organizations and individuals actively contributing to law popularization and education.

4. Legal education in educational facilities of national educational system are integrated in educational program of educational levels and training qualifications; being a content in educational program of lower secondary education, upper secondary education, Professional education and higher education.

Article 4. Socialization of law popularization and education

The State encourages and has policy to assist, facilitate for agencies, organizations, enterprises, individuals participating in law popularization and education; mobilizes social resources contributing to law popularization and education.

The State encourages and has policy to assist, facilitate for agencies, organizations, enterprises, individuals participating in law popularization and education; mobilizes social resources contributing to law popularization and education.

Article 5. Principles of law popularization and education

1. Accuracy, sufficiency, clearness, intelligibleness, practical.

2. Being timely, regularly, having focus of interest or main point

3. Making variety forms of law popularization and education, being suitable with demand, age group, qualification of subjects being popularized, educated on law and and being suitable with the good traditional, customs and habits of national.

4. Linking execution of law, execution of duties about social-economical development, assurance of defense and security of national and localities and life each day of people.

5. Closely coordination between agencies, organizations, families and society.

Article 6. State management on law popularization and education

1. The content of state management on law popularization and education includes:

a) Formulating, promulgating legal documents, programs, plans on law popularization and education;

b) Directing, guiding and organizing implementation of law popularization and education;

c) Fostering knowledge of law, professional skills in law popularization and education;

d) Setting up and managing the national database of law;

dd) Making statistics, summarization relating to law popularization and education;

e) Inspection, examination, settlement over complaints, denunciation and handling violation in law popularization and education;

g) International cooperation on law popularization and education.

2. The state management agencies on law popularization and education include:

a) The Government shall carry out the unified management of law popularization and education;

b) The Ministry of Justice shall be responsible before the Government for implementation of state management on law popularization and education; assume the prime responsibility for formulation, and submitting to the Prime Minister for promulgation of programs, long-term and medium-term plans on law popularization and education; assume the prime responsibility for seting up the national database of law;

c) Ministries, ministerial-level agencies within their duties and powers shall responsible for coordination with the Ministry of Justice to implement state management on law popularization and education;

d) The People’s Committees at levels shall have responsibility for implementation of the state management on law popularization and education in localities.

Article 7. The coordinate council of law popularization and education

1. The coordinate councils of law popularization and education are established in centre, central-affiliated cities and provinces, district, towns and provincial cities. They are consulting agencies of the Goverment, provincial People’s Committees, district People’s Committees in law popularization and education and mobilizing resources for law popularization and education.

2. Standing agency of the coordinate council of law popularization and education under the Government is the Ministry of Justice; under provincial People’s Committee is the Department of Justice, under district People’s Committee is division of Justice.

3. The Prime Minister shall detail on component and duties, powers of the coordinate council of law popularization and education.

Article 8. Legal day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

On November 09 annually is the Legal day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The Legal day is operated aiming to Honor Constitution, laws, to educate law-abiding consciousness for everyone in the society.

The Government details this Article.

Article 9. The prohibited acts

1. Wrongly communication of or criticizing with respect to the popularized content of laws; not supplying information, documents as prescribed by law; supplying information, documents with the content that is incorrect with truth, contrary to law, social ethics, national good tradition.

2. Abusing law popularization and education to distort the guidelines, lines of the Party, law of the State; propagating the hostile policy, sowing division with the great national unity; infringing lawful rights and interests of agencies, organizations and individuals.

3. Hindering implementation of rights being informed, studying, learning law of citizens, operation of law popularization and education of agencies, organizations and individuals.

4. Abusing implementation of rights being informed, studying, learning law to hinder normal operation of law popularization and education of agencies, organizations and individuals, causing social disorder and unsafety.