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On the afternoon of January 6, Minister of Justice Nguyen Hai Ninh heard reports from relevant units on the Civil Status Law project; Legal Aid Law project; National Law Portal Project. Deputy Minister of Justice Nguyen Thanh Ngoc also attended. Download Minister of Justice Nguyen Hai Ninh heard reports from relevant units on Law projects - Photo: VGP/DA5 important civil status events will be carried out without borders. At the meeting, reporting on some new points of the draft Law on Civil Status (amended), the representative of the Department of Judicial Administration said that according to the draft Law on Civil Status (amended), the authority to handle civil status registration will be assigned to the commune-level Peoples Committee for the matter. civil status registration of Vietnamese citizens residing in the country and civil status events arising in the country; Representative agencies will handle civil status registration for Vietnamese citizens residing abroad or civil status events of Vietnamese citizens arising abroad. In addition, the draft Law allows 5 important civil status events including: Birth, marriage, guardianship registration, recognition of father, mother, children and death to be carried out without boundaries within a province. Accordingly, people can go to any commune-level civil status registration agency in the province for settlement. Other civil status events such as changing civil status information, exploiting and using the civil status database, and issuing civil status extracts are carried out across the country without administrative boundaries. People can go to any commune-level civil status registration agency for settlement. In particular, the draft Law also adds regulations on proactive and automatic birth registration and death registration, specifically: For death registration, in case the deceased dies at a medical facility, it has been approved. If you issue a death certificate and have electronic data, that data will be transferred to the civil registration agency to register the death without requiring people to do so. For birth registration, when the father or mother has provided enough data about the childs name, ethnicity, etc. to the medical facility, the medical facilitys data will be transferred to the civil status agency to carry out birth registration. In addition, in order to inherit the regulations on ensuring online nature in civil status registration, the proposed draft Law stipulates that all civil status registration procedures will not require the person registering civil status to be present at the civil status registration agency to sign the book. and receive the results, except for 3 procedures including: Marriage registration, registration of recognition of parents, children and guardianship registration because these 3 procedures require confirmation that, at the time of establishing the civil status event, both parties or parties are alive and have full capacity for civil acts...Agree on the plan to expand the scope of people receiving legal aid Download Meeting scene - Photo: VGP/DAConclusion of the meeting, on the Civil Status Law project, Minister Nguyen Hai Ninh proposed that the Department of Judicial Administration research and stipulate in the Law 02 forms of birth registration, including: People can register their own birth and automatic birth registration. At the same time, there needs to be a mandatory roadmap for medical facilities that perform childbirth to have mandatory information fields, ensuring synchronization and connection with civil status within a certain period of time. For 03 procedures: marriage registration, parent-child registration and guardianship registration, the Minister said that the Department needs to come up with two options to ask for opinions. In particular, option one allows only online registration and option two requires the person registering civil status to still be present. Regarding the Law project amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Legal Aid (TGPL), the Minister agreed to choose the option to expand the number of people eligible for legal aid; agree that legal aid is carried out in all fields of law except for business and trade fields that are not part of activities to improve peoples livelihoods as prescribed in Clauses 5 and 10, Article 7 of the Law. Strengthen coordination to complete draft laws and resolutions Aiming for the goal of all civil status events being registered and managed in the electronic environment. Publishing civil status data to replace documents in handling administrative procedures. Regarding legal aid collaborators, the Minister agreed on a plan to expand the number of people who can become collaborators, implementing legal aid through legal advice and non-litigation representation. Regarding the proposal to expand the number of legal aid collaborators who are public employees, the Minister said that it is possible to study expansion to attract social resources, especially teams with legal expertise, but strict conditions must be set. These conditions are intended to ensure no conflicts of interest, do not affect the performance of professional duties of public employees, and must have the consent and responsibility of the governing agency. Regarding the National Law Portal Project, the Minister assigned the Department of Information Technology to promptly fully absorb all comments at the meeting and complete the draft Project; organize consultation with units under the Ministry; synthesize and report to the Ministrys leaders and transfer documents to the Department of Dissemination, Legal Education and Legal Aid to continue implementing procedures for consulting relevant agencies according to regulations... Dieu Anh
