The National Assembly on November 24, 2015, passed the amended Civil Code, which will take effect on January 1, 2017.
Under the Code, subjects of civil legal relations include individuals, legal entities and households, cooperative groups and other organizations without the legal entity status, which may enter into civil relations through their members or representatives.
Some of the Code’s remarkable contents include individuals’ rights to reassign or change their genders, register for changes in their civil status registration and have personal rights suitable to their genders; agreed interest rates; and dispute settlement when there are changes in civil contracts, etc.