The laws consist of the revised Law on Organization of People's Courts, the Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety 2024, the Law on Archives 2024, the Law on Management and Use of Weapons, Explosive Materials, and Support Tools, the Law on Defense and Security Industry and Industrial Mobilization, and the law on amendments and supplementations to some articles of the Law on VIP Protection 2024.
The revised Law on Organization of People's Courts comprises nine chapters with 152 articles and will take effect from January 1, 2025.
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At the press conference to announce the laws approved by the 15th N.A. |
It contains some new contents related to the position, role, tasks and power of the people's courts, the reform of the courts' apparatus, the establishment of specialized first-instance courts, and the national judge selection and supervision council, among others.
Notably, the law has a new chapter on the organization of trials which includes regulations on the random selection of judges and jurors for trials, and the methodology for organizing trials at courts.
Also coming into force from January 1, 2025, the Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety has nine chapters with 89 articles, aiming to create a legal basis for ensuring road traffic order and safety, protecting commuters' life and health safety, and helping build an orderly, disciplined and secured society, thus contributing to the protection of human rights and citizens' rights in line with the Constitution 2013 and the international treaties to which Vietnam is a party.
Meanwhile, the Law on Archives is comprised of three chapters with 65 articles and will become effective from July 1, 2025. One of the major policies it focuses on is the management of electronic archives to meet the requirements of digital transformation and e-Government development.
The Law on Management and Use of Weapons, Explosive Materials, and Support Tools, to be effective from January 1, 2025, features eight chapters with 75 articles. It is part of efforts to improve mechanisms, policies, processes, and administrative procedures while settling difficulties, obstacles and problems arising during the enforcement of legal regulations related to the management and use of weapons, explosives, and support tools so as to ensure its consistency with relevant laws and at the same time create a legal basis for the state management and the prevention and combat of crimes and violations of laws on weapons, explosives, and support tools.
The Law on Defense and Security Industry and Industrial Mobilization, comprising seven chapters with 86 articles, will be effective from July 1, 2025. It aims to complete mechanisms and policies serving the building and development of defense and security industries as well as industrial mobilization in the immediate and long terms, ensuring specific policies for extremely important areas of defense and security industries.
It is expected to promote the role, functions, and tasks of defense and security industries along with industrial mobilization in ensuring weapons, technical equipment, and professional means for the people's armed forces.
The law on amendments and supplementations to some articles of the Law on VIP Protection, scheduled to take effect from January 1, 2025, aims to meet requirements in reality after five years of implementing the VIP Protection Law and resolve shortcomings and problems arising during its enforcement.
Notably, according to the law, the permanent member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat, Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court, and Prosecutor General of the Supreme People's Procuracy are added to the persons entitled to guarding.
Source: VNA