Has the Law on Promulgation of Legislative Documents in 2025 in Vietnam been issued?
Has the Law on Promulgation of Legislative Documents in 2025 in Vietnam been issued?
On February 19, 2025, the National Assembly issued the Law on Promulgation of Legislative Documents 2025 which stipulates the construction and promulgation of legislative documents; basic contents regarding the organization of implementation of legislative documents.
The Law on Promulgation of Legislative Documents 2025 does not regulate the making of the Constitution or amendments to the Constitution, effective from April 1, 2025.
Article 4 of the Law on Promulgation of Legislative Documents 2025 regulates the system of legislative documents, which includes:
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Constitution.
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Codes, laws (hereinafter collectively referred to as laws), resolutions of the National Assembly.
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Ordinances, resolutions of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly; joint resolutions between the Standing Committee of the National Assembly and the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front; joint resolutions between the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, the Government of Vietnam, and the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front.
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Orders, decisions of the President.
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Decrees, resolutions of the Government of Vietnam; joint resolutions between the Government of Vietnam and the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front.
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Decisions of the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam.
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Resolutions of the Council of Justices of the Supreme People's Court.
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Circulars of the Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court; circulars of the Prosecutor General of the Supreme People’s Procuracy; circulars of Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies; circulars of the Auditor General of the State Audit Office.
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Joint circulars between the Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court, the Prosecutor General of the Supreme People's Procuracy, the Auditor General of the State Audit Office, Ministers, and Heads of ministerial-level agencies.
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Resolutions of the People's Councils of provinces and centrally-run cities (hereinafter collectively referred to as provincial level).
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Decisions of the People's Committees at the provincial level.
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legislative documents of local governments in special administrative-economic units.
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Resolutions of the People's Councils of districts, towns, district-level municipalities, cities within provinces, and cities within centrally-run cities (hereinafter collectively referred to as district level).
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Decisions of the People's Committees at the district level.
Has the Law on Promulgation of Legislative Documents in 2025 in Vietnam been issued? (Image from the Internet)
What are principles for development and promulgation of legislative documents in Vietnam?
Based on Article 5 of the Law on Promulgation of Legislative Documents 2025, development and promulgation of legislative documents in Vietnam must adhere to the following principles:
- Ensure comprehensive, direct leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
- Ensure constitutionality, legality, consistency of legislative documents within the legal system, and compliance with international treaties that the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a member of; strictly adhere to authority, content, form, order, and procedures in construction and promulgation.
- Ensure national sovereignty, defense, security, national and ethnic interests; control power, fight corruption, negatives, waste; prevent group interests, local interests.
- Respect, protect, and ensure human rights, citizen rights, gender equality; ensure democracy, fairness, humanity, transparency, scientific nature, promptness, stability, feasibility, and effectiveness.
- Ensure implementation of decentralization and devolution; address inadequacies from practice; address new issues and trends; meet requirements of state management and encourage innovation, unblocking of resources, and promotion of socio-economic development.
- legislative documents implementing pilot applications must define the pilot timeframe and be summarized and evaluated to decide on continued application or formal promulgation.
- Ensure compliance with laws on protecting state secrets concerning the content of legislative documents within the scope of state secrets.
What is the language used in legislative documents in Vietnam?
Based on Article 7 of the Law on Promulgation of Legislative Documents 2025, the regulation of language, format, presentation techniques, and translation of legislative documents into minority languages and foreign languages is as follows:
Article 7. Language, format, presentation techniques, and translation of legislative documents into minority and foreign languages
- The language used in legislative documents is Vietnamese, ensuring accuracy, universality, consistency, clarity, and comprehensibility.
- legislative documents may be structured into parts, chapters, sections, subsections, articles, clauses, and points; each part, chapter, section, subsection, and article must have a title.
- legislative documents must be numbered and symbolized to clearly show the continuous order, year of issuance, type of document, and authority issuing the document.
- legislative documents may be translated into minority languages and foreign languages. Translations are for reference purposes.
The language used in legislative documents is Vietnamese, ensuring accuracy, universality, consistency, clarity, and comprehensibility.
