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ORDER
On the promulgation of law
THE PRESIDENT OF
THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
Pursuant to Articles 88 and 91 of the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam;
Pursuant to Article 91 of the Law on Organization of the National Assembly;
Pursuant to Article 57 of the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents,
PROMULGATES
The Law on Citizen Identification,
which was passed on November 20, 2014, by the XIIIth National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam at its 8th session.-
President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
TRUONG TAN SANG
TRUONG TAN SANG
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LAW
On Citizen Identification
Pursuant to the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam;
The National Assembly promulgates the Law on Citizen Identification.
Chapter I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1. Scope of regulation
This Law provides citizen identification, the citizen identification database and the national population database; management and use of citizen’s identity cards; and rights, obligations and responsibilities of related agencies, organizations and individuals.
Article 2. Subjects of application
This Law applies to Vietnamese citizens as well as related agencies, organizations and individuals.
Article 3. Interpretation of terms
In this Law, the terms below shall be construed as follows:
1. Citizen identification means basic information about the origin and identity of a citizen in accordance with this Law.
2. Identity means distinctive and stable characteristics of a person’s appearance that distinguish such person from another.
3. Citizen identification archives means a system of dossiers and documents on citizen identification which are managed, classified and arranged in a certain order to serve information search and exploitation.
4. National population database means a collection of basic information about all Vietnamese citizens, which is standardized, digitalized, stored and managed in an information infrastructure to serve state management work and transactions among agencies, organizations and individuals.
5. Citizen identification database means a specialized database collecting information about Vietnamese citizen identification, which is digitalized, stored and managed in an information infrastructure, and constitutes part of the national population database.
6. Specialized database means a collection of information about one or several certain management field(s) of a ministry or sector, which is digitalized, stored and managed in an information infrastructure and connected to the national population database.
7. Information infrastructure of the national population database and citizen identification database means a system of equipment serving the production, collection, processing, storage, transmission and exchange of digital information about population and citizen identification, including telecommunications networks, the Internet, computer networks and databases.
8. Citizen identification management agency means a specialized agency of the People’s Public Security performing the management of citizen identification, the national population database and the citizen identification database.
[1] Công Báo Nos 1165-1166 (29/12/2014)
[2] Công Báo Nos 1165-1166 (29/12/2014)
