Persons in the following categories and persons who live in the following areas are permitted to have a maximum of two children:

• Cadres, manual workers and civil servants at agencies of the party, the state and mass organizations and cadres and soldiers of the armed forces;

• Families who live in a municipality, a city or an industrial zone;

• Families who live in the Red River Delta, the Mekong Delta, the lowlands of the central coastal provinces or the midlands.
  
  

Families of the ethnic minorities in the mountain provinces of the North, the Central Highlands and the Northwest may have a maximum of three children per couple.

Couples who were married previously, either one or both of whom have children from their previous marriage, who now wish to have a child of their own may have only one child.

In cases in which twins or triplets are born to the couple first, they may not have another child. Couples who already have one child but then give birth to twins or triplets will not be considered as having exceeded the limit.

Persons who have two children, both of whom are handicapped, may have a third child.

The above mentioned families of cadres, members of the armed forces, manual workers and civil servants are families in which both the husband and wife are a cadre, manual worker or civil servant or only one person is a cadre, manual worker, civil servant or member of the armed forces. The place of residence of the mother is used to determine if a family lives in a municipality, city or industrial zone.

In the case of families residing in municipalities, cities and industrial zones in which the husband or wife is a cadre, a member of the armed forces, a manual worker or a civil servant, child bearing age is 22 years of age or older for women and 24 years of age or older for men. In the other areas, the age is 19 or older for women and 21 or older for men.

The second child, if any, and the first child must be spaced 3 to 5 years apart. In the case of a woman who gives birth late in life, after 30 years of age, the space can be 2 to 3 years.

Couples who already have a child (except couples who have stopped having children) and newly married couples must register with the local administration and pledge to practice family planning in exact accordance with Articles 2 and 3. Cadres, manual workers, civil servants and members of the armed forces are to register at their agency or unit. Civilians are to register at their village, subward or town people's committee.

Agencies, units and village, subward and town people's committees must routinely keep abreast of the specific situation concerning the implementation of birth control measures and the birth of children by each couple within their agency, unit or locality.

Agencies and units must report on the family planning situation within their agency or unit and be under the supervision and inspection of the people's committee on the basic level and the population and family planning guidance committee of the precinct, district or town.

Efforts must be intensified to provide widespread propaganda and education of every form concerning population and family planning so that everyone clearly understands the benefits to be derived and the responsibility to teach about population and family planning within general schools, colleges, vocational schools and cadre training schools.

It is necessary to strengthen the system of organizations engaged in population and family planning work on the various levels so that they have an adequate number of specialized and semi-specialized cadres. Every agency and unit must put a cadre in charge of population work and family planning.

A full supply of equipment, implements and drugs as well as an adequate force of specialized public health cadres must be prepared in order to promptly meet the needs for gynaecological examinations and medical treatment and birth control and abortion services. It is necessary to organize basic public health service units which are convenient to the people and provide instruction in the use of safe and effective birth control measures and methods suited to the habits of each area and to each person.

The Ministry of Finance, the State Planning Commission, economic organizations and the people's committees of the provinces, municipalities, special zones, precincts, wards, districts and cities must provide appropriate funding to the population committee on their level in order to provide the conditions needed for the committee to perform its population and family planning work well.

Henceforth, one of the standards to be considered in the allocation of land for the construction of a house and the distribution of housing is that the family have two children.

The same standards apply to families that have only one child as apply to families that have two children.

Families that have more than the allowed number of children (which includes the children they already have) must pay a housing or land rent calculated at a high price for the extra space they request.

Henceforth, families with three children or more will not be permitted to move into the urban centers of municipalities, cities and industrial zones.

Families that have more than the stipulated number of children must contribute social support funds, which include funds for education and health care and an increased contribution of socially beneficial labour.

The state will supply, free of charge, birth control devices, such as intrauterine loops and condoms, birth control pills and public health services for the insertion of intrauterine loops and abortions to eligible persons who are cadres, manual workers, civil servants or members of the armed forces, persons to whom priority is given under policy and poor persons who register to practice family planning.

The widespread sale of birth control devices will be permitted in order to facilitate their use by everyone who needs them.

If they desire to have children, childless women may receive medical treatment to enable them to bear a child.

The state shall adopt regulations offering incentives to encourage persons to cease child bearing by means of vasectomies and tubal ligations.

When examining the results of the implementation of their plan, state agencies as well as production and business units must give consideration to another standard, namely, meeting the norms on population and family planning.

Couples which do not observe the articles concerning the number of children will be appropriately penalized in accordance with current law by their immediate management agencies.