When does the Civil Defense Law come into force? What are the responsibilities of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam regarding civil defense?

When does the Civil Defense Law come into force?

Under Article 55 of the Civil Defense Law 2023, the provisions are as follows:

Entry into force

This Law comes into force from July 1, 2024.

This Law is approved by the 15th National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the 5th meeting on June 20, 2023.

Therefore, the Civil Defense Law comes into force on July 1, 2024.

When does the Civil Defense Law come into force? (Image from the Internet)

What are the responsibilities of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam regarding civil defense?

According to Article 51 of the Civil Defense Law 2023, within their tasks and powers, ministries, central departments, and ministerial agencies are responsible for taking charge, cooperating with the Ministry of National Defense in performing state management civil defense and:

- Promulgating, requesting competent authority to promulgate and organizing implementation of legislative documents on civil defense;

- Commanding affiliated agencies and entities to organize execution of civil defense plans and measures; organizing their forces and instruments to perform civil defense tasks under assignment of competent authority.

What are the regulations on state management on legal dissemination and education in Vietnam?

According to Article 6 of the Law on Legal Dissemination and Education 2012, the regulations on state management on legal dissemination and education in Vietnam are as follows:

- The content of state management on legal dissemination and education includes:

+ Formulating, promulgating legal documents, programs, plans on legal dissemination and education;

+ Directing, guiding and organizing implementation of legal dissemination and education;

+ Fostering knowledge of law, professional skills in legal dissemination and education;

+ Setting up and managing the national database of law;

+ Making statistics, summarization relating to legal dissemination and education;

+ Inspection, examination, settlement over complaints, denunciation and handling violation in legal dissemination and education;

+ International cooperation on legal dissemination and education.

- The state management agencies on legal dissemination and education include:

+ The Government shall carry out the unified management of legal dissemination and education;

+ The Ministry of Justice shall be responsible before the Government for implementation of state management on legal dissemination 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 legal dissemination and education; assume the prime responsibility for seting up the national database of law;

+ Ministries, ministerial-level agencies within their duties and powers shall responsible for coordination with the Ministry of Justice to implement state management on legal dissemination and education;

+ The People’s Committees at levels shall have responsibility for implementation of the state management on legal dissemination and education in localities.

What is the content of legal education in educational institutions of the national education system in Vietnam?

According to Article 23 of the Law on Legal Education Dissemination 2012, the content of legal education in educational institutions of the national education system is specified as follows:

- The content of legal education in educational institutions of national education system is formulated to be suitable with each learning level and training level, educational objective, trained disciplines, to ensure the uniformity, synchronisation, commonish, basic, practical and systematic.

- The content of legal education for each learning level and training level of national education system is stipulates as follows:

+ The content of legal education in preschool education and primary education program is integrated through the content of moral education, forming habits suitable to ethical standards of the society, consciousness of discipline, solidarity spirit, and self-conscious spirit in order to contribute to form legal consciousness.

+ The content of legal education in program on lower secondary education, upper secondary education includes equipping of fundamental knowledge on rights and obligations of citizens, exercising habits, consciousness of respecting and obeying law;

+ The content of legal education in program on Professional education, Undergraduate education includes equiping basic knowledge on State and Law, legal knowledge relating to trained disciplines.

What is the form of legal education in educational institutions of the national education system in Vietnam?

According to Article 23 of the Law on Legal Education Dissemination 2012, the form of legal education in educational institutions of the national education system is specified as follows:

- The legal education as official study subject through integration in educational activities at the Early childhood education level; the ethical subject at the primary education, the subject on citizen education at the lower secondary education level, upper secondary education level; the subject on law , the general law, specialized- branch law at professional educational institutions, undergraduate educational institutions; subjects in other educational institutions of national education system.

- The legal education as extracurricular education and educational activities beyond class hours.