The Ordinance on Administrative Sanctioning of Acts Obstructing Proceedings , which was passed on August 18, 2022, by the Standing Committee of the 15th National Assembly, aims to create an adequate legal framework for administrative sanctioning of acts obstructing proceedings.

The 15th National Assembly passed the Law Revising a Number of Articles of the Law on Intellectual Property (the 2022 Law) at its 3rd session in June this year.

Composed of 157 articles, the 2022 Law on Insurance Business will supersede its 2000 predecessor with revisions made in 2010 and 2019 from the beginning of next year.

Adopted in June this year, the Law on Cinematography provides a legal mechanism to protect lawful interests as well as defines obligations of organizations and individuals engaged in cinematographic activities. It also creates a legal corridor for developing the film industry and the cinema market, promoting the proactivity of the participants in cinematographic activities, and raising the healthy competition in film business activities.

On June 14 this year, legislators passed the Law on Mobile Police. The Law will supersede the 2013 Ordinance on Mobile Police from January 1 next year.

Coming into force on January 1 this year, the 2020 Law on Vietnamese Guest Workers institutionalizes the 2013 Constitution and the Party’s recent guidelines on the sending of Vietnamese workers abroad as well as deal with emerging problems

The Law on Public Investment has its Articles 17, 25, 82 and 83 revised under the Law Amending a Number of Articles of the Law on Public Investment, Law on Investment in the Form of Public-Private Partnership, Law on Investment, Housing Law, Bidding Law, Electricity Law, Law on Enterprises, Law on Excise Tax, and Law on Enforcement of Civil Judgments.

The Law on Investment and Law on Enterprises have a number of articles revised under the Law amending nine laws, which was passed on January 11 this year at the first extraordinary session of the 15th National Assembly.

The Law Amending a Number of Articles of, and Replacing the Appendix on the List of National Statistical Indicators to, the Statistics Law (the Revised Law) was passed last November and came into force on January 1 this year.

The Labor Code was passed in November 2019 and came into force from the beginning of 2021. The Code devotes a separate chapter, Chapter X, to providing regulations on female employees and assurance of gender equality.