According to this Decree, administrative violations in the domain of national defense mean acts of deliberately or undeliberately breaching law provisions on national defense, which are not crimes but must be subject to administrative sanctions, including:

- Violation of the provisions on performance of military service duty, in active service and reserve ranks;

- Violation of the provisions on building reserve force;

- Violation of the provisions on industrial mobilization; management and use of equipment, devices, technologies and supplies exclusively used for defense production;

- Violation of the provisions on the management and building of militia and self-defense force;

- Violation of the provisions on the protection of defense works and military zones as well as management of defense land;

- Violation of the provisions on the use of military vehicles' number plates;

- Violation of the provisions on the use, sale, purchase and production of military gear.

Subjects governed by this Decree are:

- Individuals and organizations committing acts of administrative violation in the field of national defense;

- Foreign individuals and organizations committing acts of administrative violations in the field of national defense within the Vietnamese territory, economic zones and continental shelf, unless otherwise provided for by the international treaties which Vietnam has signed or acceded to.

This Decree takes effect 15 days after its publication in the Official Gazette and replaces the Government's Decree No. 24/CP of April 18, 1996 on sanctions against administrative violations in the domain of national defense.- (Summary)