Research to supplement preferential policies for people working in civil status

Minister of Justice Hoang Thanh Tung has a report explaining and receiving opinions from National Assembly deputies on the draft revised Law on Civil Status Registration.

The report clearly stated that some opinions suggested supplementing Article 5 on State policy to stipulate appropriate mechanisms and policies for preferential treatment for people working in civil status, ensuring jobs, stabilizing job positions, training, professional development, especially skills in handling civil status with foreign elements that previously commune-level justice - civil status officials did not do.

Regarding these contents, the Ministry of Justice plans to absorb, research, and supplement appropriate preferential policies for people working in civil status.

Some opinions suggested studying and revising Clause 3, Clause 4, Article 5 in the direction of clearly separating between policies on material resources and policies on human resources, proposing to transfer the content of human resource development to Clause 4 so that each clause focuses on a separate group of policies, thereby ensuring clarity, logic and convenience for organization and implementation in practice.

The Ministry of Justice said it will revise and reduce the content "priority for human resource development" in clause 3 to clause 4; combine clause 1 and clause 2 into 1 clause.

The report also shows that some opinions suggested supplementing a mechanism for controlling and comparing data to avoid duplication and deviation; having a mechanism to handle errors when registering; supplementing regulations that the authorization to sign civil status papers with foreign elements must be implemented according to the law on local government organization.

Regarding this content, the Ministry of Justice believes that currently, the settlement of administrative procedures on civil status is carried out on the basis of civil status data, through the Electronic Civil Status Registration and Management System, the duplication reporting function (if civil status registration information shows signs of duplication) is the default and top priority feature of the System. Therefore, it will avoid cases of requesting civil status registration twice at the competent civil status registration agency.

Clause 3, Article 8 also stipulates that each civil status event can only be registered once, without duplication... The civil status registration agency is responsible for checking information in the Civil Status Database and related databases before carrying out civil status registration.

In case errors occur during registration, point d, clause 1, Article 19 of the Draft Law has regulations on correcting registered civil status information due to errors or civil status information not being true to reality.

Regarding the proposal to supplement regulations on authorizing the signing of civil status papers with foreign elements to be carried out according to the law on local government organization; allowing the Chairman of the commune-level People's Committee to authorize the Vice Chairman of the People's Committee, the Ministry of Justice found that Clause 2, Article 7 of the Draft Law stipulates the scope of authorization to sign civil status papers of the Chairman of the People's Committee, this clause also stipulates that authorization is carried out according to regulations.

Therefore, supplementing regulations to refer to the Law on Organization of Local Government or supplementing regulations to authorize the Vice Chairman of the People's Committee is unnecessary.

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