The 2019 Militia and Self-Defense Force Law consists of 8 Chapters and 50 Articles, which was passed by the 14th National Assembly on November 22, 2019, with many notable new contents. One of these new points is the addition of cases where participation in militia and self-defense force obligations is temporarily postponed.
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To be specific: some new cases have been added in Article 11 of the Self-Defense Militia Law 2019 including:
- Men solely raising children under 36 months old;- Those whose husbands or wives are officials and public employees, youth volunteers assigned to work in areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions as prescribed by law;- The sole laborer in poor or near-poor households; persons who directly support family members unable to work or not of working age; persons in households suffering significant losses in terms of people and property due to accidents, natural disasters, or dangerous epidemics, as confirmed by local authorities;- The husband or wife, or one child of war invalids, sick soldiers, persons affected by Agent Orange with a working capacity decrease between 61% and 80%;- Persons working, studying, or living abroad.
Thus, compared to the Self-Defense Militia Law 2009, this Law has added cases such as men solely raising children under 36 months old; people whose husbands or wives are officials and public employees, defense workers serving in the army, police; the main and only laborer in near-poor households...
In addition, the Self-Defense Militia Law 2019 also adds a regulation that if a locality does not have a commune-level administrative unit, the Chairman of the district-level People's Committee will have the authority to decide the suspension, exemption from performing the obligation to participate as self-defense militia. (According to current regulations, the Chairman of the commune-level People's Committee, or the head of an agency or organization decides the suspension, exemption, and early termination of the obligation to serve as core self-defense militia)
Toan Trung
