Government Simplifies Application for Restricting Issuance of Resident Registration and Family Relations Certificates to Domestic Violence Perpetrators... Prompt Protection for Victims

Reducing the Burden of Additional Submissions Such as Hospital Medical Certificates, Expanding Evidence Documents for Domestic Violence

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] The application procedure for restricting the issuance of resident registration certificates for victims of domestic violence against perpetrators of domestic violence will be simplified.

On the 1st, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety announced that it will publicly notify a partial amendment to the Enforcement Rules of the Resident Registration Act containing this content from the 2nd. The system to restrict the issuance of resident registration certificates for victims of domestic violence was introduced in 2009 through an amendment to the Resident Registration Act to prevent secondary damage caused by exposing the residence to family members regardless of the victim's intention.

Victims of domestic violence can visit a nearby community service center anywhere in the country to designate the target among family members and apply to prevent themselves and household members from viewing or receiving resident registration certificates.

The proposed amendment to the Enforcement Rules of the Resident Registration Act includes provisions to reduce the burden of submitting separate explanatory documents if objective evidence is attached to the certificate (evidence document) issued by an institution, and to broadly recognize the scope of evidence documents by including the local government head’s confirmation of child abuse protection facts, thereby enhancing the convenience of applicants for issuance restriction who have suffered domestic violence.

The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family has significantly relaxed the document requirements attached to counseling confirmation certificates from domestic violence and sexual violence counseling centers to facilitate applications for issuance restriction of resident registration certificates. In addition, for sexual violence victim protection facilities, applications for issuance restriction can be made with only the admission confirmation issued by the relevant institution, the same as for protection facilities where domestic violence victims are admitted.

The Ministry of Health and Welfare, as part of measures to address child abuse issues and to ensure prompt protection of victimized children, has added documents related to abused children, which were not previously included in the evidence documents for issuance restriction applications. According to the Child Protection Trial Rules, temporary measure decisions, protection disposition decisions, temporary protection order decisions, or victim child protection order decisions have also been added to the evidence documents, enabling abused children to apply for issuance restriction of their own resident registration certificates against abusive parents.

Choi Byung-kwan, Director of Local Administration Policy, said, "This amendment to the Enforcement Rules of the Resident Registration Act was promoted to resolve blind spots in protecting victims of domestic violence that appeared during the operation of the resident registration system," and added, "We will continue to carefully observe the daily lives of citizens and create a warm resident registration system so that no one is left unprotected or marginalized."

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