President Nguyen Minh Triet has signed into
law the Law on National Assembly and People’s Council Elections (revised); the
Law on Inspection and the Law on Administrative Litigation and the Resolution on
the implementation of Administrative Litigation.

The promulgation was
made public at a press conference in the capital city yesterday, Dec 16.

A key objective of
the changes to the Law on National Assembly and People’s Council Elections is to
enable the two elections to be conducted on the same day. The revised law was
passed on November 24 by the National Assembly (NA). It will take effect on
January 1, 2011.

Before, the two
elections were subject to two separate laws.

Under the new law,
each electorate should have from 300,000-400,000 voters, but in special
circumstances, there can be some changes to meet actual requirements.

The Inspection
Law

The law was passed by
the NA on November 15, 2010. It will come into force on July 1, 2011.

The Inspection Law
has seven chapters and 78 articles (two more chapters and nine more articles
than the 2004 Inspection Law).

A key change in the
law is the regulation under which government agencies can conduct inspection
visits. They included state inspection offices, ranging from the central
government down to the district levels; and government agencies assigned to
perform specialised inspections.

The law was passed on
November 24, 2010 and will come into force on July 1, 2011.

The law has 18
chapters and 265 articles.

The major objective
of the law is to accelerate the settlement of administrative cases in the courts
through reform procedures.

The law is in line
with the national strategy on judiciary reform by 2020 and in accordance with
the Law on Complaints and Denunciations as well as demand for judiciary reform
in the course of international economic integration.

To enable the
implementation of the Administrative Litigation Law, the National Assembly
passed the Resolution on the Implementation of Administrative Litigation on
November 24, 2010.

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