The Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety 2024, effective from January 1, 2025, stipulates that "driving training facilities are units providing driving training services".

This is a new regulation compared to the 2008 Road Traffic Law, which stipulated that "driving schools are a type of vocational training institution." Therefore, driver training and testing will no longer be considered vocational education .

The Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety now empowers the Minister of Transport to issue driver training programs, instead of the head of the training facility as was the case previously.

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According to the new law, driving schools are considered providers of driving training services. (Photo: Archival material)

Mr. Luong Duy Thong, Head of the Vehicle and Driver Management Department of the Vietnam Road Administration, said that when driver training facilities are separated from vocational education, they will only have one managing agency, the Department of Transport, instead of two departments, the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs and the Department of Transport, as is currently the case.

"When transitioning to the new model, the draft decree guiding the Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety will specifically regulate driver training centers," Mr. Thong said.

Mr. Thong also stated that the Ministry of Transport has submitted to the Government a draft decree regulating driver training and testing activities.

The decree will specify in detail several provisions of the Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety regarding driver training and testing activities, including: training methods, business conditions for driver training facilities, standards for driver instructors, etc.

These regulations include provisions on the re-issuance and revocation of driving instructor certificates; the issuance, re-issuance, and revocation of training vehicle licenses, etc.

Specifically, Article 14 stipulates that driving instructors will have their "professional certificate" revoked if they engage in fraudulent behavior to participate in training or examinations; or if their driving instructor certificate is issued by an unauthorized agency or person, or if it has been altered or tampered with.

Furthermore, this certificate will also be revoked if the teacher rents or lends it to another training institution or to another organization or individual.

Training vehicle permits are revoked in the following cases: alteration or alteration; allowing other organizations or individuals to use the vehicle for driver training purposes; the driver training facility is dissolved or its training license is revoked; the training vehicle is equipped with and uses two or more DAT devices (time and distance monitoring devices) or uses DAT devices from other vehicles to cheat during practical driver training.