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Įstatymas paskelbtas: ˇin OFFICIAL TRANSLATION REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA LAW ON MILITARY CONSCRIPTION 22 October 1996 No I-1593 (As last amended on 18 December 2007 – No X-1390) Vilnius CHAPTER I GENERAL

PROVISIONS Article

  1. Purpose of the Law
  2. This Law shall lay down a procedure for fulfilling military conscription of citizens of the Republic of Lithuania and ensuring thereof.
  3. The procedure for fulfilling military conscription of the citizens of the Republic of Lithuania who also hold citizenship of other states shall be regulated by international treaties. Where an international treaty has not been concluded with a state, fulfilment of military conscription shall be regulated by this Law. Article
  4. Military Conscription Military conscription shall be the duty of a citizen of the Republic of Lithuania provided for in the Constitution to fulfil active military service or alternative national defence service and to prepare for defence of the state against aggression. Article
  5. Ensuring of Military Conscription of Citizens
  6. Military conscription of citizens shall be ensured by state institutions and undertakings, agencies and organisations of all types and forms of ownership.
  7. Only those citizens who are required to fulfil initial mandatory military service and who have fulfilled it, have been exempted therefrom or have obtained deferment thereof in the cases specified by this Law, also for whom it has been replaced with other ways of fulfilment of service under the conditions specified by this Law may be recruited to civil service.
  8. When being recruited to civil service, military conscripts must present a military document attesting to the status of a military conscript: a serviceman or draftee certificate. Article
  9. Definitions
  10. Military record file shall mean accounting of military conscripts, their entering onto lists of potential draftees, draftees and reserve military conscripts and striking off the lists.
  11. Mandatory military service shall mean the mandatory military service of a citizen of the Republic of Lithuania established by the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania. It shall consist of the initial continuous military service of the duration established by this Law and periodic non-continuous military service in the active reserve as well as service in the event of mobilisation.
  12. Alternative national defence service shall mean an auxiliary mandatory national defence service alternative to initial mandatory military service for those who cannot serve under arms due to religious or pacifistic beliefs.
  13. Military conscript shall mean a citizen of the Republic of Lithuania over 16 years of age who is subject to military conscription.
  14. Potential draftee shall mean a military conscript (male) from 16 to 19 years of age.
  15. Draftee shall mean a military conscript (male) from 19 to 26 years of age who has neither fulfilled initial mandatory military service or alternative national defence service, nor is exempted therefrom for the reasons provided for in this Law.
  16. Recruit shall mean a draftee who is assigned to a unit (training centre) from the day of his assignment thereto until the day of his arrival to the unit (training centre).
  17. Reserve conscript shall mean a military conscript before he reaches the age specified by this Law who has fulfilled initial mandatory military service or has not fulfilled it, or has fulfilled volunteer military service and has been transferred to the reserve, or has been transferred from professional military service to the reserve and entered into the active or individual reserve record file.
  18. Obligation of an active reserve serviceman shall mean the obligation of a reserve serviceman whose name is entered into the active reserve record file to fulfil non-continuous military service periodically or taking into consideration national defence needs.
  19. Obligation of an individual reserve serviceman shall mean the obligation of a serviceman who is exempted from the obligation to serve in the active reserve due to his age or for other reasons and transferred to the individual reserve to fulfil military service in the event of mobilisation.
  20. Local territorial military office shall mean a territorial division of the Military Conscription Administration Service under the Ministry of National Defence engaged in administration of military conscription. CHAPTER II REGISTRATION AND MILITARY DRAFT SECTION ONE REGISTRATION OF POTENTIAL DRAFTEES Article
  21. Entering of Youths into a Military Record File
  22. Citizens of the Republic of Lithuania (males) must, upon reaching 16 years of age, have their health checked within 2 months at health care institutions of the primary level of the Lithuanian national health system in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Ministry of Health and submit an obtained extract from an individual health file (out-patient card) to local territorial military offices.
  23. Potential draftees shall be entered in a military record file at local territorial military offices and shall be issued draftee's certificates of an established form. SECTION TWO MILITARY DRAFT Article
  24. Procedure for Organising a Military Draft
  25. A citizen of the Republic of Lithuania must, upon reaching 19 years of age, arrive at a local territorial military office within a period of 45 days, which shall start 30 days prior to his 19th birthday and end 15 days after this birthday. The draftees for whom initial mandatory military service is deferred in the cases provided for Article 9 of this Law, but who wish to fulfil this service regardless of the time limit of deferment of service may apply to a municipal selection commission, which must draft them into initial mandatory military service where there are no grounds for deferment of mandatory service specified in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 8 of this Law.
  26. Draftees must also arrive at local territorial military offices, municipal selection commissions and draftees’ medical examination commissions when they are summoned to arrive, with the day of arrival indicated in a military draft notice sent by post and announced in a city's (district's) newspaper.
  27. A draftee who fails to arrive without a valid reason shall be held liable under laws.
  28. The draftees who have not been drafted into initial mandatory military service for the reasons specified in Article 9 of this Law shall be drafted upon disappearance of these reasons.
  29. The draftees who are recognised by a municipal selection commission as fit for initial mandatory military service shall be prohibited from leaving the Republic of Lithuania for a period longer than the day of their designated arrival at a unit.
  30. A recruit shall acquire the status of a serviceman from the day of his arrival at a unit (training centre) or from the moment of placement under the subordination of a commander (military superior). Article
  31. Valid Grounds for Non-Arrival
  32. In all cases specified by this Law, valid grounds for military conscripts' non-arrival at the designated time shall be as follows: 1) a draftee's illness; 2) death of a draftee's family member or close relative; 3) a natural disaster or accident; 4) a draftee's studies abroad where this constitutes a ground for deferment of initial mandatory military service in accordance with subparagraphs 1-4 of paragraph 1 of Article 9 of this Law.
  33. In the cases indicated in subparagraphs 1-3 of Article 1 of this Article, draftees must have a relevant document and submit it to a municipal selection commission, and in the case indicated in subparagraph 4 draftees must submit or send by registered mail a relevant document and documents related to deferment of service. Article
  34. Exemption from Initial Mandatory Military Service or Replacement Thereof
  35. Citizens of the Republic of Lithuania shall be exempted from initial mandatory military service in the following cases: 1) they are not fit for initial mandatory military service in accordance with the list of diseases established in the Regulations of Military Medical Examination; 2) they have declared in writing that due to their religious or pacifistic beliefs they cannot serve under arms, and they have been assigned to fulfil alternative national defence service; 3) clergymen of the religious communities and associations traditional in Lithuania and recognised by the State.
  36. The persons who have lost both parents or have been left without parental care, unless they have been adopted or were placed under guardianship (custody) until they came of age, may, subject to submitting a reasoned written request, be exempted from initial mandatory military service.
  37. The persons found guilty of committing deliberate crimes for which they were sentenced to imprisonment shall not be drafted into initial mandatory military service.
  38. Initial mandatory military service of the duration provided for in Article 17 of this Law may be replaced with one of the following ways of fulfilling service: 1) for students of schools of higher education, with the exception of students of the Military Academy of Lithuania – with training in leadership courses of a set duration during studies, the schedule of which shall be co-ordinated with the schedule of studies at the schools of higher education, and performing military internship training in the armed forces or obligatory military training of the duration not exceeding 90 days during summer holidays in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 19 of this Law; 2) for cadets of the Military Academy of Lithuania – with studies according to the curriculum of the Academy; 3) for the persons who graduated from schools of higher education – with service of the duration not exceeding 6 months in separate training military units according to a command training programme or with service of the duration not exceeding 3 months according to a basic servicemen training course; 4) in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 19 of this Law, with basic military training; 5) for the persons who have concluded a volunteer service contract – an exemplary service of the duration of at least 3 years as a line unit volunteer serviceman in the national defence volunteer forces.
  39. The following persons shall be regarded as having fulfilled initial mandatory military service: 1) those who have fulfilled initial mandatory military service of the duration specified in Article 17 of this Law; 2) those who have fulfilled service in one of the ways indicated in paragraph 4 of this Article and have received a certificate confirming fulfilment of this service; 3) the cadets who have been dismissed (expelled) from the Military Academy of Lithuania and who have finished at least one-year course of studies.
  40. Initial mandatory military service may be replaced in one of the ways indicated in subparagraphs 1, 3, 4 and 5 of paragraph 4 of this Article in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Minister of National Defence by a decision recommendation of the Military Conscription Centre of the Administration Service (except for the exception specified in paragraph 7 of this Article). The duration of the service fulfilled in these ways and the form of the certificates conforming its fulfilment shall be determined by the Minister of National Defence on the recommendation of the commander of the armed forces.
  41. For the persons seeking to enter the internal service, initial mandatory military service shall be replaced in the manner indicated in subparagraph 4 of paragraph 4 of this Article in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Minister of National Defence.
  42. The draftees who have graduated from institutions of higher education or post-secondary education institutions and who have not been drafted into for initial mandatory military service within 12 months after graduation from such an institution shall be exempted from initial mandatory military service. Article
  43. Deferment of Initial Mandatory Military Service and Alternative National Defence Service
  44. By a decision of a municipal selection commission, initial mandatory military service and alternative national defence service shall be deferred in accordance with the procedure laid down in paragraph 3 of this Article: 1) for the pupils of secondary schools of general education and vocational training schools who are not older than 21 years of age – until they graduate; 2) for students of higher education institutions; 3) for postgraduate students; 4) for doctoral students and residents; 5) for suspects or the accused in a criminal case – until termination of pre-trial investigation or rendering of judgement in the criminal case; 6) when the mother or the father of a draftee is a Group I or Group II invalid and there are no other adult family members to maintain them; 7) when the mother or the father of a draftee alone raises one or more minor children up to the age of 16 or older who are rated as Group I or Group II invalids and there are no other adult family members; 8) when a draftee has one or more minor brothers or sisters under 18 years of age and there are no other adult family members who can maintain them; 9) when the wife of a draftee is a Group I or II invalid, or during the wife’s pregnancy and until a child becomes 3 years of age; 10) when a draftee must take care of the grandparents who are incapable of work, because there are no other adult family members who must maintain them; 11) when by a decision of a municipal council a draftee is appointed a guardian (custodian) – until the expiry of the period of guardianship (custody); 12) when a draftee has and maintains in his family two or more children or raises a child alone; 13) when a draftee is the only working man in a farmer's family; 14) a draftee's family members would, if left without his support, find themselves in a difficult situation, also for other particularly important reasons which are not indicated in this Article – only subject to consent of the Minister of National Defence on the recommendation of a municipal selection commission.
  45. In the cases when there are more draftees during a military draft than may be drafted in accordance with the set number of service places, initial mandatory military service shall be deferred provided the following additional conditions are met: 1) when a draftee has and maintains in his family one or more children; 2) when a draftee is married and he or his spouse has received a loan which is granted in accordance with the established procedure to young families for construction (purchase) of an apartment or a house; 3) when a period of deferment of service for a draftee has expired, he is at least 22 years of age and has run an established personal enterprise from which he receives income and pays taxes for at least 2 years; 4) (repealed on 24 October 2006).
  46. Where in cases of deferment of initial mandatory military service by applying the additional conditions specified in paragraph 2 of this Article less draftees are left during conscription than must be drafted according to the set number of service places, additional circumstances of deferment of initial mandatory military service shall apply in the following order: from subparagraph 1 to subparagraph 3 of paragraph 2 of this Article.
  47. In the cases when upon deferment of initial mandatory military service according to the additional conditions of deferment of initial mandatory military service as specified in paragraph 2 of this Article more draftees are left during a military draft than it must be drafted according to the set number of service places, draftees shall be drafted for initial mandatory military service upon selecting them by the method of random selection. The procedure for selecting draftees by the method of random selection shall be laid down by the Minister of National Defence.
  48. The citizens for whom initial mandatory military service is deferred for the reasons indicated in subparagraphs 6-14 of paragraph 1 and subparagraphs 1-3 of paragraph 2 of this Article, and the reasons of deferment have not disappeared over 3 years shall be drafted for mandatory military training. During the period of deferment of initial mandatory military service, mandatory military training may be completed also by the citizens for whom initial mandatory military service has been deferred for other reasons.
  49. The Selective Recruitment Commissions may defer initial mandatory military service for a period of one year. Where there are no changes in the circumstances indicated in this Law, deferment of a military draft shall be extended each time for a period not exceeding one year. Article
  50. Financing of a Military Draft The expenses related to registration of potential draftees, drafting of draftees into initial mandatory military service or alternative national defence service, training of military conscripts, checking and examination of their health with respect to their fitness for mandatory military service shall be financed from the appropriations from the state budget allocated for these purposes to implement national defence functions. SECTION THREE MILITARY DRAFT COMMISSIONS SECTION FOUR MILITARY RECORD FILE Article
  51. Military Record File
  52. A military record file shall be managed by a local territorial military office.
  53. The following citizens of the Republic of Lithuania (males) must be entered in the military record file: 1) upon attaining 16 years of age – within 2 months; 2) upon fulfilling initial mandatory military service or alternative national defence service – within 10 days from the day of completion of the service.
  54. The female citizens of the Republic of Lithuania who have acquired higher education in medicine or another discipline determined by the Government must be entered in the military record file within 2 months of the graduation from an educational establishment.
  55. A person from 19 up to 45 years of age residing in Lithuania and having acquired the citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania must, within a month from the entry into force of a decree of the President of the Republic on granting of the citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania, check his health and be entered in the military record file at a local territorial military office.
  56. The citizens of the Republic of Lithuania who are rated as invalids shall not be entered in the military record file or shall be removed from it.
  57. When being entered in the military record file, military conscripts must present a draftee’s or a serviceman’s certificate.
  58. Military conscripts must, within 15 days, submit to a local territorial military office the following information about: 1) change of the name or surname; 2) graduation from educational establishments; 3) departure from a permanent place of residence for a period exceeding 6 months or arrival at a new place of residence for a period exceeding 6 months; 4) change of a place of employment; 5) change of the marital status (marriage, family enlargement or death a family member, divorce).
  59. Military conscripts must present data on a change of their health condition within 2 months from the establishment of invalidity or occurrence of sickness (injury).
  60. Reserve military conscripts residing abroad permanently or temporarily (for a period exceeding 6 months) must be entered in the military record file at missions or consular posts of the Republic of Lithuania. CHAPTER II

(1)REORGANISATION OF MILITARY CONSCRIPTION ADMINISTRATION SECTION ONE ADMINISTRATION OF MILITARY CONSCRIPTION Article 15
(1). Repealed on 24 July 2004. Article 15
(2). Entities of Military Conscription Administration
  1. Military conscription shall be directly administered by: 1) local authorities; 2) the Military Conscription Administration Service under the Ministry of National Defence (hereinafter referred to as the “Administration Service”).
  2. Other state institutions, undertakings, agencies and organisations of all types and forms of ownership shall perform the functions assigned to them by laws and related to reorganisation of military conscription. Article 15
(3). Levels of Military Conscription Administration
  1. Levels of military conscription administration shall be as follows: 1) local authorities; 2) regional military conscription centres covering one or more counties.
  2. Municipalities shall select and send preliminarily selected draftees to regional military conscription centres and shall be responsible for this.
  3. Regional military conscription centres of the Administration Service shall assign draftees to mandatory military service and shall be responsible for this. SECTION TWO MILITARY CONSCRIPTION ADMINISTRATION AT THE FIRST LEVEL Article 15
(4). Military Conscription Administration in a Municipality
  1. A local authority shall keep accounts of potential draftees and carry out initial selection of draftees, send the selected draftees to regional military conscription centres and control the timely implementation of the provision of paragraph 1 of Article 5 of this Law.
  2. The functions of military conscription administration provided for in paragraph 1 of this Article, with the exception of those assigned to a municipal commission for selection of military conscripts (hereinafter referred to as a “municipal selection commission”), shall be performed by a servant appointed by a municipality to organise a military draft and holds required powers (hereinafter referred to as a “municipal administration servant”). His job description meeting the requirements of a model job description shall be approved by the director of the municipal administration, who shall appoint and dismiss the municipal administration servant. Article 15
(5). Municipal Administration Servant
  1. A municipal administration servant shall: 1) keep accounts of the potential draftees residing in the territory of the municipality; 2) control the timely implementation of the provision of paragraph 1 of Article 5 of this Law; 3) submit lists of the potential draftees residing in the territory of the municipality to a territorial division of the Administration Service; 4) prepare material for meetings of a municipal selection commission; 5) invite draftees to meetings of a municipal selection commission; 6) control implementation of the Republic of Lithuania Law on National Conscription by undertakings, agencies and organisations of all types and forms of ownership; 7) implement legal education of the public on issues of military conscription.
  2. In performing his tasks and functions, a municipal administration servant shall co-operate with employees of a territorial division of the Administration Service. Article 15
(6). Municipal Selection Commission
  1. Upon proposal of a municipal mayor, a municipal council shall approve a municipal selection commission and its rules of procedure. The municipal selection commission shall consist of not more than 7 persons: a municipal doctor, representatives of guardianship and custody, the police and the Administration Service. A member of the municipal council or an employee of the municipal administration shall be approved as the chairman of the commission.
  2. Where a member of a municipal council is approved as the chairman of a municipal selection commission, it shall be proposed to approve a municipal administration servant as a deputy chairman of the commission.
  3. The Administration Service shall delegate its officer to a municipal selection commission. It shall be proposed to approve him as a deputy chairman of the commission.
  4. A municipal selection commission shall be approved for the term of office of a municipality. After municipal elections, it shall exercise its powers until a newly elected municipal council approves a new commission.
  5. Model rules of procedure of a municipal selection commission and model job description of a municipal administration servant shall be approved by the Government or an institution authorised by it.
  6. A municipal selection commission shall: 1) carry out the initial selection of draftees – examine their personal documents, the documents related to military record file, social status, individual health condition (an extract from an out-patient card) and other documents and, according to them, preliminarily determine fitness for mandatory military service; 2) in the cases specified by this Law and in accordance with the procedure laid down by its rules of procedure, adopt decisions on exemption of military conscripts from mandatory military service; 3) under the conditions specified and in accordance with the procedure laid down by this Law, defer initial mandatory military service for military conscripts; 4) send preliminarily selected draftees to regional military conscription centres.
  7. The material and documents required for meetings of a municipal selection commission shall be prepared by a municipal administration servant and a territorial division of the Administration Service.
  8. An officer delegated by the Administration Council to a municipal selection commission shall have the right to require, if there is a ground therefor, reconsideration of the decisions taken by the municipal selection commission on issues of military conscription by the Supervisory Commission at the Administration Service (hereinafter referred to as the “Supervisory Commission”). Article 15
(7). Supervisory Commission
  1. The Supervisory Commission shall, upon written requests of draftees, consider the validity of decisions of municipal selection commissions concerning their draft, exemption from mandatory military service or its deferment and, if there is a ground therefor, modify those decisions. This decision of the Supervisory Commission shall come into force when it is approved by the head of the Administration Service. A decision of the Supervisory Commission may be appealed against to the Minister of National Defence not later than within 10 working days from the receipt of this decision. A decision of the Minister of National Defence may be appealed against to court within 20 days.
  2. The Minister of National Defence shall approve the composition of the Supervisory Commission and its rules of procedure. Article 15
(8). Territorial Division of the Administration Service A territorial division of the Administration Service shall: 1) manage the military record file of military conscripts; 2) form personal files of military conscripts; 3) keep accounts of draftees and reserve military conscripts; 4) submit the documents required for meetings of a municipal selection commission; 5) bring military conscripts to regional military conscription centres and/or to an assigned place of service; 6) organise a search for potential draftees and draftees as well as transfer the material to pre-trial investigation bodies; 7) perform other functions specified by legal acts. THIRD SECTION ADMINISTRATION OF CONSCRIPTION AT THE SECOND LEVEL Article 15
(9). Administration Service
  1. The founder of the Administration Service shall be the Ministry of National Defence.
  2. Regulations of the Administration Service shall be approved, the structure and lists of staff shall be established, and the head shall be appointed and dismissed by the Minister of National Defence.
  3. The head of the Administration Service, to the position of whom only a servant of the civil national defence service may be appointed, shall be directly subordinate to the Minister of National Defence.
  4. The Administration Service shall have regional military conscription centres, the Supervisory Commission, territorial divisions in territories of municipalities and other subdivisions. Article 15
(10). Main Tasks of the Administration Service The main tasks of the Administration Service shall be as follows: 1) to implement in the Republic of Lithuania the state policy of military conscription organisation and administration, to co-ordinate, methodically direct and supervise the activities of state and municipal institutions in ensuring the implementation of the Law on Military Conscription; 2) according to a general system, to manage the military record file and databases of military conscripts of initial mandatory military service; 3) taking into consideration the allocated funds and needs of the armed forces, to develop plans of drafting of military conscripts into mandatory military service; 4) to organise health check-up of the draftees selected by municipal selection commissions at the first level, to establish their fitness for military service; 5) to assign fit draftees to military service and send them to a place of service; 6) to keep accounts of reserve military conscripts; 7) to manage the record file and databases of the active military reserve and personnel mobilisation reserve; 8) to lay down a procedure for creating a record file of military conscripts; 9) to consider citizens’ written requests submitted on issues of military conscription; 10) to perform other tasks and functions provided for in its regulations. Article 15
(11). Regional Military Conscription Centres
  1. Military conscription administration in a region shall be carried out by regional military conscription centres of the Administration Service. The territory of activity of the regional military conscription centres shall be established by the Minister of National Defence
  2. Regional military conscription centres shall: 1) receive the draftees preliminarily selected and sent by municipal selection commissions and assign them to mandatory military service; 2) check draftees' health and, when an additional examination is necessary, send them to a military medical examination commission or to a public health care establishment; 3) establish the fitness of draftees for military service and for a type of the armed forces according to the requirements set forth for health and other general and special requirements; 4) in accordance with needs of the armed forces, assign draftees to units and organise their arrival at a place of service; 5) compile and manage a computer database of the military record file of military conscripts, active reserve servicemen and personnel mobilisation reserve of a region.
  3. Health check-up of draftees at regional military conscription centres shall be carried out by doctors of the Military Medical Service appointed in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Minister of National Defence. The procedure for checking the draftees' health must be co-ordinated with the Ministry of Health. The procedure for checking the draftees' health shall be approved by the Government or an institution authorised by it. Article 15
(12). Support of Draftees
  1. Draftees shall be paid a daily allowance equal to 0.1 of the minimum standard of living for the days of examination of their fitness for military service at regional military conscription centres or municipal selection commissions.
  2. The expenses of draftees relating to travelling from their place of residence to a regional military conscription centre or municipal selection commission and back or to a place of service shall be reimbursed according to presented tickets of passenger transport (with the exception of taxi), and in the event of a failure to present such tickets – according to the maximum tariff rates for travel by ordinary bus and/or by train in a general-class passenger carriage approved in accordance with the established procedure. Travel expenses shall not be reimbursed when a military conscript is carried by a means of transport of the Administration Service or when he refuses this means of transport.
  3. During the days of examination of their fitness for military service, draftees shall be provided with meals in accordance with the physiological norms established by the Government or an institution authorised by it or they shall be paid monetary reimbursement of meal-related expenses in the amount specified by the Government; when necessary, they shall also be provided with accommodation for the night.
  4. The support provided for in this Article shall not be provided to a draftee where the draftee has failed, through his own fault, to meet the requirements set forth by a municipal selection commission or the Administration Service and, as a result of this, his fitness for military service could not have been verified at a regional military conscription centre.
  5. The payments provided for in this Article shall be made from the budget funds allocated to the Ministry of National Defence for that purpose in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Minister of National Defence. CHAPTER III SERVICE SECTION ONE Initial mandatory military service Article
  6. Place of Service Servicemen in initial mandatory military service shall fulfil their service in the Lithuanian armed forces. Article
  7. Duration of Service
  8. The citizens of the Republic of Lithuania who are from 19 to 26 years of age may be drafted to initial mandatory military service. The citizens who have written a request to a municipal selection commission or regional military conscription centre may commence service at the age of 18 and, subject to consent of the Minister of National Defence, at the age of 27, with the exception of the cases provided for in paragraphs 1 and 3 of Article 8 of this Law.
  9. Initial mandatory military service shall last for a period of 12 months.
  10. The following time periods shall not be included in service time where during them a serviceman in initial mandatory military service: 1) voluntarily left a unit; 2) failed to return from a business trip or holidays without a valid reason; 3) was placed in a lockup.
  11. In the event of occurrence of the circumstances indicated in subparagraphs 6-14 of paragraph 1 of Article 9 of this Law, a serviceman in initial mandatory military service who has served for less than half of the period specified in this Law shall be released from service at his request until the mentioned circumstances disappear . Article
  12. Dismissal from Service
  13. A serviceman in initial mandatory military service shall be released from service to reserve: 1) upon having served for a period specified by this Law; 2) in the event of occurrence of a circumstance indicated in subparagraph 1 of paragraph 1 of Article 8 of this Law; 3) upon having served at least half of the period specified in this Law, in the event of occurrence of the circumstances indicated in subparagraphs 6-14 of paragraph 1 of Article
  15. A serviceman in initial mandatory military service shall be released from service: 1) where he loses the citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania; 2) when a court judgement convicting the serviceman for a serious or grave crime becomes effective, or a punishment is imposed on him, which renders him unable to continue service; 3) when he has committed the offences which bring dishonour to the service and this is incompatible with his status of a serviceman – only by a decision of the commander of the armed forces.
  16. The persons released from service due to the circumstances indicated in subparagraph 1 of paragraph 2 of this Article shall not be entered into the active or individual reserve record file. The persons released from service due to the circumstances indicated in subparagraphs 2 and 3 of paragraph 2 of this Article may not be entered into the active reserve record file either. A decision not to enter a serviceman into the record file shall be taken by an order of the military commander (superior) who releases the serviceman to reserve.
  17. The procedure for releasing from initial mandatory military service shall be laid down by the Minister of National Defence.
  18. A serviceman in initial mandatory military service shall be released from service in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Minister of National Defence prior to expiry of the time limit specified by this Law upon acquisition of the required basic military training, selection to professional military service and conclusion of a contract on professional military service. In this case, the day preceding the day of entry into force of the contract on professional military service shall be deemed to be the day of release from initial mandatory military service, and the serviceman to be released from initial mandatory military service shall be deemed to be a re-enlistee. Article
  19. Obligatory Military Training
  20. Obligatory military training shall be assigned to military conscripts from 19 up to 35 years of age: 1) in the cases indicated in paragraph 5 of Article 9 of this Law; 2) who have not fulfilled initial mandatory military service for other reasons; 3) who seek to enter the internal service – by fulfilling it at statutory vocational training establishments of the interior during studies at these establishments; 4) who have been released from initial mandatory military service which they have already commenced, upon having served for a period less than 6 months, in the event of occurrence of the circumstances provided for in subparagraphs 6-14 of paragraph 1 of Article 9 of this Law during the period of their service. In this case, the duration of obligatory military training shall be determined taking into consideration the part of service not fulfilled.
  21. Obligatory military training shall be assigned to military conscripts from 18 years of age who have completed the training course of a young rifleman.
  22. Obligatory military training shall be conducted in territorial units of the armed forces or at local territorial national defence or other educational establishments in which obligatory military training is organised. Obligatory military training for the persons seeking to enter the internal service shall be organised at statutory vocational training establishments of the interior in accordance with the procedure agreed upon with the commander of the armed forces.
  23. Obligatory military training shall last from 60 up to 150 days within 3 years, but not less than 20 days per year.
  24. Obligatory military training shall be conducted in accordance to the programmes approved by the commander of the armed forces.
  25. Persons shall be sent to obligatory military training by a municipal selection commission of a municipality. The beginning and end of the training shall be determined by the commander of the armed forces.
  26. During obligatory military training, the social guarantees established for servicemen in initial mandatory military service shall apply to military conscripts; they shall be provided with meals and supplied with the clothes of an established standard. They shall be also paid the benefits to cover everyday expenses as established for servicemen in initial mandatory military service from the funds of the state budget allocated to the Ministry of National Defence and the Ministry of the Interior, taking into consideration the institution of which system they perform obligatory military training. These social guarantees, supply provisions and benefits shall, in accordance with the same procedure, apply to the military conscripts fulfilling service in a manner prescribed in subparagraph 1 of paragraph 4 of Article 8 of this Law. SECTION TWO ALTERNATIVE NATIONAL DEFENCE SERVICE Article
  27. Procedure for Selecting Alternative National Defence Service
  28. The military conscripts wishing to fulfil alternative national defence service shall, according to their place of residence, apply in writing to a municipal selection commission or regional military conscription centre. A request must be reasoned.
  29. A special commission consisting of representatives of public organisations, religious communities, educational establishments shall consider requests of military conscripts concerning fulfilment of alternative service and shall adopt a decision thereon. The procedure for forming the commission and its rules of procedure shall be established by the Government or an institution authorised by it.
  30. The Minister of National Defence shall approve the place of fulfilment of alternative national defence service and its commencement date. Article
  31. Exemption from Alternative National Defence Service The citizens of the Republic of Lithuania who, due to their health condition, are unfit for initial mandatory military service shall be exempted from alternative national defence service. Article
  32. Place of Fulfilling Alternative National Defence Service
  33. Citizens shall fulfil alternative national defence service within the national defence system of the Republic of Lithuania. They shall be assigned to serve in positions not requiring to use coercion and weapon. National defence service and disciplinary statutes, physical training and other requirements established for servicemen who are not related to the use of weapons, special means or forced use of physical power, as well as restrictions established for serviceman's service shall apply to citizens completing alternative national defence service.
  34. By decision of the Government, alternative national defence service as civil-type socially useful labour, may be completed in other state institutions. In this case, the procedure of its completion and material supply of conscripts shall be established by the Government. Article
  35. Duration of Alternative National Defence Service
  36. Citizens from 19 to 26 years of age shall be drafted into alternative national defence service.
  37. Alternative national defence service shall last for the period of 18 months. Article
  38. Material Support The citizens fulfilling alternative national defence service within the system of national defence of the Republic of Lithuania shall be provided with meals, clothing, accommodation and other during the service in accordance with the same procedure as servicemen in initial mandatory military service. SECTION THREE RESERVE SERVICE Article
  39. Readiness of Reserve Military Conscripts
  40. Reserve military conscripts: soldiers, seamen, sergeants, non-commissioned officers – who according to their health condition are fit for active military service and are between 19 and 35 years of age inclusively shall be entered into a reserve group of primary readiness, those between 36 and 45 years of age inclusively as well as female reserve military conscripts between 19 and 45 years of age – into a reserve group of secondary readiness.
  41. The reserve military conscripts who are recognised by draftees’ medical examination commissions as unfit for active military service according to their health condition or who have fulfilled alternative national defence service shall be entered into a reserve group of tertiary readiness. The reserve group of tertiary readiness shall be trained according to a separate programme.
  42. Junior reserve officers up to 45 years of age shall be entered into a reserve group of primary readiness, and junior reserve officers up to 55 years of age shall be entered into a reserve group of secondary readiness. Senior reserve officers up to 50 years of age shall be entered into a reserve group of primary readiness, and senior reserve officers up to 60 years of age shall be entered into a reserve group of secondary readiness.
  43. The reserve military conscripts who have lost the citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania shall be stricken off the active and/or individual reserve record files. The persons who have convicted for commitment of serious or grave crimes may also be stricken off the active reserve record file. Article
  44. Procedure for Training Reserve Military Conscripts
  45. Reserve military conscripts entered into a reserve group of primary readiness shall be called up for training and exercises: 1) upon having fulfilled 12-month initial mandatory military service and in other ways provided for by this Law – for 14 calendar days each year during the period of 6 years; 2) the privates who have completed a basic servicemen training course of the duration not exceeding 3 months – for 14 calendar days and 3 weekends each year during the period of 12 years; 3) the officers and non-commissioned officers who have fulfilled up to 6-month service of the duration not exceeding 6 months in separate training military units according to military command training programmes as well as the officers and non-commissioned officers who have completed military command courses during their studies at institutions of higher education or post-secondary education institutions and performed internship training in the armed forces – for 14 calendar days and 3 weekends each year during the period of 9 years; 4) other officers and non-commissioned officers – for the time periods specified by the Minister of National Defence.
  46. The persons who have fulfilled alternative national defence service shall not be called up for training and exercises.
  47. The following reserve military conscripts shall be exempted from ordinary military training (exercises): 1) farmers, their family members and agricultural specialists working in agriculture during sowing, haymaking and harvesting; 2) those having 3 and more minor children; 3) women; 4) those having a child under one year of age or where not more than 60 calendar days remain until their wives' childbirth.
  48. Maintenance of the reserve military conscripts who have been called up for training or exercises shall be provided by the State.
  49. The procedure for assigning reserve military conscripts to the active reserve, calling them up for training or exercises and the requirements set forth for a reserve group of each type of readiness shall be laid down by the Minister of National Defence. Article
  50. Emergency Mobilisation In the event of ecological disasters, natural calamities, when a threat is posed to state security, reserve military conscripts may be mobilised in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Republic of Lithuania Law on Mobilisation and Preparation of the Mobilisation Reserve. CHAPTER IV ENSURANCE OF MILITARY CONSCRIPTION. INSTITUTIONS IMPLEMENTING THE LAW Article
  51. Duties of a Local Territorial Military Office In addition to other functions, a local territorial military office shall: 1) manage the military record file of military conscripts; 2) manage personal files of military conscripts, issue military documents; 3) check lists of military conscripts against those received from municipalities, undertakings, agencies and organisations; 4) organise invitation of military conscripts to arrive and their arrival at municipal selection commissions, training and arrival of recruits at places of service; 5) furnish personal files and other data concerning military conscripts to municipal selection commissions; 6) control accounting of military conscripts in undertakings, agencies and organisations of all types. Article
  52. Duties of Municipal Institutions, Undertakings, Agencies and Organisations
  53. The municipal institutions in the territory of which military conscription administration has not been reorganised, also the undertakings, agencies and organisations of all types and forms of ownership registered in these territories shall: 1) manage accounts of the military conscripts working therein; 2) submit, by 31 December of the current year, to local territorial military offices at their request lists and additional lists of the youths who have attained 16 and 18 years of age as well as draftees; 3) furnish, on a quarterly basis, to local territorial military offices data on changes in the military record file of military conscripts; 4) check, once a year, data of the record file of military conscripts according to the plan of local territorial military offices against the data of the military record file of military conscripts of the local territorial military offices and enter changes; 5) when accepting military conscripts to work or studies, request that they be entered in the military record file at local territorial military offices in accordance with the place of residence and submit a military document attesting to the status of a military conscript.
  54. Local authorities shall, on an annual basis and by 31 December of the current year, furnish to local territorial military offices lists of the undertakings, agencies and organisations of all types registered in their territory.
  55. The undertakings, agencies and organisations of all types and forms of ownership registered with the municipalities in the territory of which military conscription administration has been reorganised shall, in accordance with the established procedure, also furnish the data indicated in this Article to local authorities. Article
  56. Duties of Educational Establishments and Institutions of Higher Education
  57. Educational establishments and institutions of higher education must foster the resolution of students of establishments of vocational training, schoolchildren and students to defend their Homeland.
  58. Heads of educational establishments and institutions of higher education shall keep accounts of the military conscripts studying at them and furnish, on an annual basis and within a month from the beginning of an academic year, to local territorial military offices data on studying military conscripts. Heads of the educational establishments and institutions of higher education registered with the municipalities in the territory of which military conscription administration has been reorganised shall, in accordance with the procedure laid down by this Article, also furnish data on studying military conscripts to a local authority.
  59. Heads of institutions of higher education must create for students such conditions for studying that the latter could fulfil service in a manner provided for in subparagraph 1 of paragraph 4 of Article 8 of this Law. Article
  60. Duties of Public Establishments and Budgetary Institutions of Individual Health Care
  61. At the request of local territorial national defence offices, draftees’ medical examination commissions or the military medical examination commission, public establishments and budgetary institutions of individual health care of the secondary and tertiary levels of the Lithuanian national health system must, in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Ministry of Health: 1) carry out a medical check-up and examination of the draftees sent with respect to their fitness for mandatory military service; 2) furnish extracts from individual health files (out-patient cards) of draftees.
  62. The procedure for verifying the fitness of active reserve servicemen for military service according to their health condition shall be laid down by the Government or an institution authorised by it. Article
  63. Duties of the Population Register Service
  64. At the request of the Ministry of National Defence, the Population Register Service shall, in accordance with the procedure laid down by legal acts, furnish to it the information regarding the place of residence, passport or identity card and other data of military conscripts.
  65. The Population Register Service shall, upon request, furnish the information regarding the place of residence, passport or identity card and other data of potential draftees and draftees to institutions of the municipalities in the territory of which military conscription administration has been reorganised. Article
  66. Duties of Subdivisions of the System of the Interior
  67. At the request of the head of a local territorial military office as well as at the request of a municipal administration servant of a local authority in the territory of which military conscription administration has been reorganised, municipal police bodies shall carry out search for draftees and shall bring them.
  68. The IT and Communications Department at the Ministry of the Interior shall, in accordance with the established procedure, furnish to local territorial military offices and municipal institutions in the territory of which military conscription administration has been reorganised data on whether a military conscript is subject to criminal liability or has been convicted. Article
  69. Duties of Courts
  70. The courts must inform local territorial military offices about the entry into force of judgements for the military conscripts sentenced to imprisonment within 7 days from the entry into force of a judgement.
  71. Certificates of the military conscripts, servicemen or draftees sentenced to imprisonment must be forwarded to local territorial military offices, where they shall be entered into the military record file. Article
  72. Duties of Civil Registration Agencies
  73. Civil registration agencies must, on a quarterly basis, furnish to local territorial military offices lists of the military conscripts (males) who have changed their names and surnames, at the request of such offices – additional lists, and in the event of death of a military conscript, inform about this fact within 10 calendar days.
  74. Civil registration agencies must, on a quarterly basis, furnish to the local authorities in the territory of which military conscription administration has been reorganised lists of the potential draftees and draftees who have changed their names and surnames, at the request of these authorities – additional lists, and in the event of death of a potential draftee or draftee, inform about this fact within 10 calendar days. Article
  75. Duties of Agencies of Social Security and Labour Institutions Agencies of social security and labour institutions must, on a quarterly basis, furnish to local territorial military offices data about the citizens (males) from 19 to 26 years of age who are rated as invalids. Article
  76. Persons Responsible for Ensuring Military Conscription Heads of appropriate bodies shall be responsible for performance of the duties specified in this Chapter. CHAPTER V FINAL PROVISIONS Article
  77. (Repealed). Article
  78. Liability for Violation of This Law The persons in violation of this Law shall be held liable under law. Article
  79. Extension of Initial Mandatory Military Service and Early Draft In the cases provided for by laws, the duration of initial mandatory military service may be extended and citizens of the Republic of Lithuania may be drafted into initial mandatory military service from 18 years of age. Article
  80. Support of and Guarantees for Servicemen A procedure for supporting servicemen shall be laid down and the guarantees related to military service shall be established by the Law on the Organisation of the National Defence System and Military Service. Article
  81. Repeal of Laws and Other Legal Acts Upon entry into force of this Law, the following legal acts shall be repealed: 1) Resolution of the Supreme Council on the Implementation of the Provisional Law on National Defence Service (Official Gazette, No 21-530, 1990); 2) Provisional Law on National Defence Service (Official Gazette, No 21-531, 1990); 3) Law on Compulsory (Alternative) Labour Service (Official Gazette, No 30-726, 1990); 4) Resolution of the Supreme Council on the Implementation of the Republic of Lithuania Law on Compulsory (Alternative) Labour Service (Official Gazette, No 30-727, 1990); 5) Law Amending Article 32 of the Republic of Lithuania Provisional Law on National Defence Service (Official Gazette, No 30-728, 1990); 6) paragraph 5 of Article 26 of the Law on Education (Official Gazette, No 23-593, 1991); 7) Part II of the Law Amending the Republic of Lithuania Law on the Police, the Republic of Lithuania Provisional Law on National Defence Service and the Republic of Lithuania Law on National Defence Service (Official Gazette, No 53-994, 1994); 8) Law Amending the Republic of Lithuania Law on Compulsory (Alternative) Labour Service (Official Gazette, No 89-1721, 1994). I promulgate this Law passed by the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania. PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC ALGIRDAS BRAZAUSKAS

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