Military personnel are to be reinstated in rank: President signs bill into law
Kyiv • UNN
The President of Ukraine has signed a law allowing officers to be reinstated in military rank during martial law. The reinstatement will take place regardless of the position held, subject to a positive certification.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a bill that provides that during martial law, officers deprived of their military rank through disciplinary action shall be reinstated in their former military rank regardless of their regular position. This is reported by UNN with reference to the card of the bill No. 9316.
"Returned with the signature of the President of Ukraine," the draft law card reads.
The Law shall enter into force on the day following the day of its publication in the official printed edition of the Golos Ukrainy.
According to the draft law, during martial law, officers deprived of their military rank through disciplinary action shall be reinstated in their former military rank, regardless of the staff position they hold, subject to positive certification, by orders of their superiors or persons equivalent to them and above.
In the absence of such an official (as a result of disbandment, liquidation of a military command and control body, etc.), the order is issued by a higher official who has the right to issue orders on personnel.
"Prior to the reinstatement of an officer in the former military rank and assignment of the next rank, repeated deprivation of military rank is not allowed. "A person reinstated in military rank enjoys the rights and benefits established by law in accordance with the reinstated military rank," the document says.
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The draft law was adopted at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada on July 16.
