| THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ------- Law No. 14/2012/QH13 | THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence– Freedom – Happiness --------------- Hanoi, June 20, 2012 |
LAW
ON LEGAL POPULARIZATION AND EDUCATION
Pursuant to the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, which was amended and supplemented under the Resolution No.51/2001/QH10;
The National Assembly promulgates the Law on law popularization and education.
Chapter I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1. Scope of regulation
This Law stipulates the rights being informed about law and the duty to study, learn law of citizens; content and form of legal popularization and education; duty of competent agencies, organizations and individuals; and conditions ensuring for legal popularization and education.
Article 2. The rights being informed about law and the duty to study, learn law of citizens
1. The citizens have the right being informed about law and have the duty to take the initiative in studying, learning law
2. The State shall ensure and facilitate for the citizens performing the rights being informed about law.
Article 3. Policy of the State on legal popularization and education
1. Legal popularization and education is duty of entire the policy system, in which the State takes the leading role.
2. The State shall ensure necessary resources for task about law popularization and education.
3. Implementing socialization in legal popularization and education; commending and rewarding agencies, organizations and individuals actively contributing to law popularization and education.
4. 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.
Article 4. Socialization of 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.
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.
Article 5. Principles of legal popularization and education
1. Accuracy, sufficiency, clearness, intelligibleness, practical.
2. Being timely, regularly, having focus of interest or main point
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Closely coordination between agencies, organizations, families and society.
