| THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY STANDING COMMITTEE ------- | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM Independence - Freedom – Happiness --------- |
| No. 14/2011/UBTVQH12 | Hanoi, February 19, 2011 |
ORDINANCE
AMENDING AND SUPPLEMENTING A NUMBER OF ARTICLES OF THE ORDINANCE ON JUDGES AND JURORS OF THE PEOPLE'S COURTS
Pursuant to the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, which was amended and supplemented under Resolution No. 51/2001/QH10;
Pursuant to Law No. 33/2002/QH10 on Organization of the People's Courts;
Pursuant to the National Assembly's Resolution No. 27/2008/QH12 of November 15, 2008, on the 2009 law- and ordinance-making program and additions to the law- and ordinance-making program of the XIIth National Assembly (2007-2011);
The National Assembly Standing Committee promulgates the Ordinance Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of Ordinance No. 02/2002/PL-UBTVQH11 on Judges and jurors of the People's Courts.
Article 1. To amend and supplement a number of articles of the Ordinance on Judges and Jurors of the People's Courts
1. To amend and supplement Article 2 as follows:
"Article 2.
1. Judges of the People's Courts in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam include:
a/ Supreme People's Court judges;
b/ Intermediate-level judges;
c/ Primary-level judges;
d/ Judges of the Military Courts, including judges of the Central Military Court, who are concurrently the Supreme People's Court judges; intermediate-level judges and primary-level judges.
2. The Supreme People's Court and the Central Military Court are staffed with Supreme People's Court judges. The People's Courts of provinces or centrally run cities (collectively referred to as provincial-level People's Courts), the People's Courts of rural districts, urban districts, towns or provincial cities (collectively referred to as district-level People's Courts), military-zone or equivalent-level Military Courts, and regional Military Courts are staffed with intermediate-level judges and primary-level judges.
The numbers of Supreme People's Court judges, intermediate-level judges and primary-level judges will be decided by the National Assembly Standing Committee at the proposal of the President of the Supreme People's Court.
3. Jurors of the People's Courts in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam include:
a/ People's jurors of provincial-level People's Courts and people's jurors of district-level People's Courts (collectively referred to as people's jurors);
b/ Armymen jurors of military-zone or equivalent-level Military Courts and armymen jurors of regional Military Courts (collectively referred to as armymen jurors)."
2. To amend and supplement Article 19 as follows:
