Law on Protection of State Secrets, Law No. 29/2018/QH14

THE PRESIDENT

Order No. 08/2018/L-CTN dated November 29, 2018 of the President on the promulgation of Law

THE PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM

Pursuant to Articles 88 and 91 of the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam;

Pursuant to Article 80 of the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents,

PROMULGATES:

The Law on State secrets protection,

which was passed on November 15, 2018, by the XIV^th National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam at its sixth session.

President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
NGUYEN PHU TRONG

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

Law No. 29/2018/QH14 of the National Assembly on Protection of State Secrets^[1]

Pursuant to the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam;

The National Assembly promulgates the Law on Protection of State Secrets.

Chapter I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1. Scope of regulation

This Law prescribes state secrets and their protection, and responsibilities of related agencies, organizations and individuals.

Article 2. Interpretation of terms

In this Law, the terms below are construed as follows:

1. State secret means information with important contents determined by heads of competent agencies and organizations based on the provisions of this Law, which has not yet been publicized and the leak or loss of which may cause harm to the national interests.

State secrets are contained in the forms of document, object, location, speech, activity, or other forms.

2. Protection of state secrets means the use of forces, means and measures by agencies, organizations and individuals to prevent and fight state secret infringement.

3. Leak of state secrets means the case in which an unauthorized person knows state secrets.

4. Loss of state secrets means the case in which a state secret-containing document or object is no longer under the management of the agency, organization or individual responsible for managing it.

Article 3. Principles of protection of state secrets