Regulations on conditions for organizing legal knowledge examinations on road traffic order and safety in Vietnam from January 1, 2025

Regulations on conditions for organizing legal knowledge examinations on road traffic order and safety in Vietnam from January 1, 2025​ (Image from the internet)

On November 12, 2024, the Minister of Public Security of Vietnam issued Circular 65/2024/TT-BCA regulating the testing of legal knowledge concerning road traffic order and safety for restoring points on driver licenses.

Regulations on conditions for organizing legal knowledge examinations on road traffic order and safety in Vietnam from January 1, 2025

Circular 65/2024/TT-BCA regulates the testing of legal knowledge on road traffic order and safety for individuals whose driver licenses have had all points deducted for restoring driver license points.

Article 5 of Circular 65/2024/TT-BCA stipulates the conditions to ensure the organizing of legal knowledge tests regarding road traffic order and safety as follows:

(1) Ensuring facilities and equipment under the authorized agencies' control for conducting the test:

(i) There must be a test room for legal knowledge on road traffic order and safety, equipped with computers and printers for officers carrying out the test tasks and essential facilities and equipment directly serving the test; computers for test takers' use must be connected to the Ministry of Public Security's WAN network to the server located at the Traffic Police Department;

The server must have software installed for testing legal knowledge on road traffic order and safety approved by the Ministry of Public Security, connected to the computers at test sites and ensuring the security and safety of the data on the computers used for testing, including logging connection histories and editing data.

(ii) There must be a camera surveillance system covering the entire image of the test room and a storage device for the camera's image data. The camera surveillance system must ensure security, preventing unauthorized external access;

(iii) If the computer at the test site does not have a WAN connection as specified in (i), the authorized testing agency should use a device with data storage capabilities to ensure security and safety, storing information of the test participants for test organization.

(2) Officers assigned to test legal knowledge on road traffic order and safety must have a type A motorcycle license and a car driver license, trained and certified as Examiners by the Traffic Police Department.

Regulations on notification of the time for the test in Vietnam

- At least two working days before the test after receiving complete valid documents, the authorized testing agency must notify the pre-registered individuals about the test timing and location via email or phone message provided in the application;

- In the case of changes to the previously announced test timing or location, the authorized testing agency must notify the pre-registered individuals via email or phone message provided in the application about the revised test timing and location.

- Test participants must be present at the announced time and location, using one of the following documents for identification: identity card, citizen ID card; driver license; identity certificate (for Vietnamese origin individuals without determined nationality); residence card, temporary residence card (for foreigners) for the authorized agency to verify information against the application.

In case the participant's information is contained within electronic identification systems, electronic identification and verification via national identification applications can be used for verification against the application information.

(Clauses 4 and 5, Article 7 of Circular 65/2024/TT-BCA)

More details can be found in Circular 65/2024/TT-BCA, effective from January 01, 2025.

>> CLICK HERE TO READ THIS ARTICLE IN VIETNAMESE