Chapter II
PHYSICAL TRAINING AND SPORTS FOR ALL
SECTION 1. MASS PHYSICAL TRAINING AND SPORTS
Article 11.- Development of mass physical training and sports
1. The State adopts investment policies and encourages organizations and individuals to participate in the development of mass physical training and sports, creating opportunities for people, regardless of their age, gender, health and disability status, to exercise their rights to physical training and sports for the purposes of health improvement, recreation and entertainment.
2. People's Committees at various levels shall build public sports facilities and ensure adequate physical training and sports personnel; set up a network of grassroots physical training and sports collaborators to meet local communities' requirements for physical training and sports activities.
3. The Vietnam Fatherland Front and its member organizations shall mobilize their members to participate in physical training and sports activities to exercise and improve their health; and coordinate with agencies performing the state management of physical training and sports in organizing mass sports performances and competitions.
4. Agencies performing the state management of physical training and sports at various levels shall coordinate with socio-professional sports organizations in mobilizing people to participate in physical training and sports movements and popularizing physical training and sports knowledge and instructions appropriate to the people's hobbies, age, gender and occupations; and provide professional training to grassroots physical training and sports collaborators.
5. State agencies, organizations and enterprises shall create conditions for civil servants, employees and laborers in their respective units to participate in physical training and sports activities.
Article 12.- Mass physical training and sports movements
1. The State launches mass physical training and sports movements to mobilize and encourage people to participate in physical training as well as sports performance and competition in order to form the habit of doing physical exercises.
2. Mass physical training and sports movements shall be evaluated based on the number of people habitually doing physical exercises and the number of sports families. The organization and evaluation of mass physical training and sports movements in localities shall be carried out under the guidance of the Committee for Physical Training and Sports.
Article 13.- Mass sports competitions
1. The Committee for Physical Training and Sports shall direct the organization of mass sports competitions at the national level.
2. People's Committees at various levels shall direct the organization of mass sports competitions in their respective localities.
3. Agencies and organizations may organize mass sports competitions within the ambit of their powers.
4. Agencies and organizations that decide to organize mass sports tournaments shall comply with the provisions of this Law and decide on the contents, forms, remuneration and prizes of the tournaments and ensure funds for the organization of the tournaments.
Article 14.- Physical training and sports for the disabled
1. The State creates conditions for the disabled to participate in physical training and sports activities in order to improve their health and integrate themselves into the community; ensures material foundations and adopts regimes and policies for athletes with disabilities to participate in national and international sports tournaments.
2. The State encourages organizations and individuals to support the disabled to participate in physical training and sports activities.
3. Agencies performing the state management of physical training and sports at various levels shall coordinate with socio-professional sports organizations and concerned agencies and organizations in creating conditions for and guiding the disabled to participate in physical training and sports activities.
4. Sports facilities must be properly designed to enable the disabled to participate in physical training and sport activities.
Article 15.- Physical training and sports for the elderly
1. The State creates conditions and encourages organizations and individuals to pay attention to sports training, performance and competition of the elderly.
2. The Vietnam Fatherland Front and the Vietnam Association of Elderly People shall encourage and mobilize the elderly to participate in physical training and sports activities.
Article 16.- Physical training for disease prevention and treatment
1. Agencies and enterprises shall organize physical exercises to prevent and combat occupational diseases for laborers in their respective agencies and enterprises.
2. The Committee for Physical Training and Sports shall coordinate with the Ministry of Health in designing and widely disseminating among the people physical exercise routines to prevent and combat diseases.
3. The States encourages organizations and individuals to establish medical establishments and convalescent and functional rehabilitation establishments that use physical training and sports as a therapeutic method.
Article 17.- National sports
1. The State adopts policies to preserve and promote national sports under the Law on Cultural Heritage and this Law; encourages organizations and individuals to exploit and develop national sports, attaching importance to sports of ethnic minority groups.
2. Agencies performing the state management of physical training and sports shall guide the training, performance and competition of national sports; and coordinate with concerned agencies and organizations in introducing national sports in foreign countries.
Article 18.- Leisure sports
1. The State creates conditions for the development of leisure sports to meet the society's recreation needs.
2. Agencies performing the state management of physical training and sports shall organize and guide leisure sports activities.
Article 19.- Defense sports
The Ministry of Defense shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Committee for Physical Training and Sports in, guiding the organization of defense sports activities among the people.
SECTION 2. PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS IN SCHOOLS
Article 20.- Physical education and sports in schools
1. Physical education is an intra-curricular subject under the educational program, aiming to provide basic physical knowledge and exertion skills to learners through physical exercises and games, contribute to the achievement of the goal of comprehensive education.
2. Sports activities in schools are learners' voluntary activities, which are organized as extra-curricular activities suitable to learners' hobbies, sex, age and health in order to create conditions for them to exercise their rights to recreation and entertainment and develop their sports aptitudes.
Article 21.- The State's responsibilities for physical education and sports in schools
1. The State adopts policies to reserve land and invest in the construction of material foundations for physical education and sports in schools, and ensure sufficient physical training and sports teachers and lecturers for all education levels.
2. The Minister of Education and Training shall coordinate with the Minister-Director of the Committee for Physical Training and Sports in elaborating physical education programs, training physical training and sports teachers and lecturers and guiding the contents of extra-curricular sports activities in schools.
3. Ministries, ministerial-level agencies and government-attached agencies shall direct and organize the construction of material foundations and the arrangement of physical training and sports teachers and lecturers for schools under their management.
4. People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities (hereinafter collectively referred to as provincial-level People's Committees) shall:
a/ Plan land areas, build material foundations and gyms, supply sports equipment and devices and allocate payroll quotas of physical training and sports teachers and lecturers for public schools in their localities.
b/ Implement policies on land preferences for private schools and people-founded schools in accordance with law to help these schools build their material foundations for physical education and sports.
Article 22.- Responsibilities of schools
1. To organize the implementation of the physical education program under regulations of the Minister of Education and Training.
2. To manage and effectively use material foundations, equipment and devices for physical education and sports in schools.
3. To organize extra-curricular sports activities for learners.
4. To ensure safety for teachers and learners in physical training and sports activities.
5. To discover and foster learners' sports aptitudes.
Article 23.- Rights and obligations of physical training and sports teachers and lecturers
1. To teach the physical education subject according with its program.
2. To organize extra-curricular sports activities, discover and foster learners' sports aptitudes.
3. To respect learners, treat them equally and comply with regulations on ensuring safety for learners.
4. To be entitled to a special allowance regime under the Prime Minister's regulations.
Article 24.- Rights and obligations of learners
1. To study the physical education subject.
2. To participate in their hobby sports activities.
3. To be selected and enrolled in sports-oriented schools.
4. To use material foundations, equipment and devices for physical education and sports in schools.
Article 25.- Sports competitions in schools
1. Agencies performing the state management of education and training at all levels and schools shall organize sports competitions in order to encourage physical training and sports movements among pupils and students.
2. Contents and forms of, and regulations on, sports competition must be suitable to the physio-psychological characteristics of learners of different age groups and material foundation conditions.
Article 26.- Responsibilities of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and socio-professional sports organizations
The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and socio-professional sports organizations shall coordinate with schools in organizing extra-curricular sports activities for learners.
SECTION 3. PHYSICAL TRAINING AND SPORTS IN THE ARMED FORCES
Article 27.- Physical training and sport activities in the armed forces
1. To carry out strength training, aiming to improve the health of officers and soldiers to meet the requirements of building the armed forces.
2. To organize voluntary sports activities for officers and soldiers.
3. To organize high-achievement sports training and competition.
Article 28.- Responsibilities of state agencies for physical training and sports in the armed forces
1. The State ensures material foundations, equipment and devices, and conditions for training of athletes and coaches for physical training and sports activities in the armed forces.
2. The Minister of Defense and the Minister of Public Security shall:
a/ Organize and direct the construction of material foundations and supply of equipment and devices for sports training and competition in the armed forces;
b/ Coordinate with the Minister-Director of the Committee for Physical Training and Sports in promulgating and applying strength training criteria, organizing the training of coaches and athletes and issuing regulations on sports tournaments in the armed forces.
Article 29.- Responsibilities of armed forces' units
1. To organize the implementation of strength training programs for officers and soldiers.
2. To organize and create conditions for officers and soldiers to participate in sports activities.
3. To manage and effectively use material foundations and equipment and devices for physical training and sports.
Article 30.- Rights and obligations of officers and soldiers
1. To follow strength training programs according to regulations of the Minister of Defense and the Minister of Public Security.
2. To participate in sport activities.
3. To be selected into sports teams to compete in national and international sports tournaments.
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Luật Thể dục, Thể thao 2006 (Bản Word)