Regulations on content of legal popularization and education in Vietnam

Regulations on content of legal popularization and education in Vietnam

1. Policy of the State on legal popularization and education in Vietnam

In Article 3 of the Law on legal popularization and education 2012, the policy of the State on legal popularization and education is as follows:

- Legal popularization and education is duty of entire the policy system, in which the State takes the leading role.

- The State shall ensure necessary resources for task about law popularization and education.

- Implementing socialization in legal popularization and education; commending and rewarding agencies, organizations and individuals actively contributing to law popularization and education.

- Legal education in educational facilities of national educational system are integrated in educational program of educational levels and training qualifications;

Being a content in educational program of lower secondary education, upper secondary education, Professional education and higher education.

2. Regulations on socialization of law popularization and education in Vietnam

In Article 4 of the Law on legal popularization and education 2012, the socialization of law popularization and education is as follows:

The State encourages and has policy to assist, facilitate for agencies, organizations, enterprises, individuals participating in legal popularization and education; mobilizes social resources contributing to law popularization and education.

The State encourages and has policy to assist, facilitate for agencies, organizations, enterprises, individuals participating in legal popularization and education; mobilizes social resources contributing to law popularization and education.

3. Principles of legal popularization and education in Vietnam

Pursuant to Article 5 of the Law on legal popularization and education 2012, the principles of legal popularization and education are as follows:

- Accuracy, sufficiency, clearness, intelligibleness, practical.

- Being timely, regularly, having focus of interest or main point

- Making variety forms of legal popularization and education, being suitable with demand, age group, qualification of subjects being popularized, educated on law and and being suitable with the good traditional, customs and habits of national.

- Linking execution of law, execution of duties about social-economical development, assurance of defense and security of national and localities and life each day of people.

- Closely coordination between agencies, organizations, families and society.

4. Content of legal popularization and education

In Article 10 of the Law on legal popularization and education 2012, the content of legal popularization and education are as follows:

- Provisions of constitution, and legal law, which the main content is provisions of laws on civil, crime, administration, marriage and family, gender equality, land, construction, environment protection, labor, education, medicine, National defense and security, transport, basic rights and obligations of citizens, powers and duties of state agencies, cadres, officers, newly promulgated legal documents.

- The International treaties which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is members, international agreements.

- The consciousness on legal respect and legal compliance, consciousness on law protection, interest of legal compliance, pattern of good persons, good works in legal implementation.

5. Form of legal popularization and education in Vietnam

Pursuant to Article 11 of the Law on legal popularization and education 2012, the forms of legal popularization and education are as follows:

- The press meeting, press releases.

- Popularizing law directly; consulting, guiding of legal studying; supplying information, documents on law.

- Via means of mass media, loudspeakers, internet, panels, posters, agitation drawings;

Published in the Official Gazettes; publishing legal information on the website; posting in head office, on notice board of agencies, Organizations, residential areas.

- Organizing the law-studying competitions.

- Through adjudicating work, handling administrative violations, receiving citizens, settlement complaints, denunciation of citizens and other activities of agencies in the state machine; through operation of legal assistance, mediation at grassroots.

- Integrating in activities of culture, literature, activities of policy organizations ands unions, clubs, law bookcases and other cultural institutions at grassroots.

- Through programs on legal educations in educational facilities of national education system.

- Other forms of legal popularization and education being suitable with each specific object that competent agencies, organizations and individuals may apply to ensure legal popularization and education bring effectiveness.

6. State management on legal popularization and education in Vietnam

Pursuant to Article 6 of the Law on Law Dissemination and Education 2012, the State management on legal popularization and education is as follows:

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

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

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

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

+ Setting up and managing the national database of law;

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

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

+ International cooperation on legal popularization and education.

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

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

+ The Ministry of Justice shall be responsible before the Government for implementation of state management on legal popularization 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 popularization 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 popularization and education;

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

Ngoc Nhi

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