When must the central committee at the Ministry of Defence reconsider a wartime service sacrifice review, and who may set that reconsideration in motion?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In a practice file we read the petition asking for re-review and the papers showing who signed it, any proof that the signer holds Civil Code property heirship to the party, the ordinary wartime service sacrifice review committee's decision, and any recommendation or decision by another state body held to differ from it.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the provision as written: re-review is required when either ground is met — the party, or that party's Civil Code property heir, petitions for it, or a state body holding investigative authority, as the Presidential Decree provides, has made a recommendation or decision differing from the ordinary committee's review; that re-review falls to the central committee placed at the Ministry of Defence.
Another reading marks the boundaries of that scope: the petition route is open only to the party or a Civil Code property heir, not to other relatives, and the second ground turns on a Presidential Decree this provision does not set out, so which bodies qualify and what makes their view different cannot be read from the provision alone.
Your judgment
If only a sibling of the fallen service member petitions, and no other state body has ruled, what in the file could still bring the case within either ground?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the Presidential Decree defining the investigative authority and the differing recommendation is issued or amended, or if the provision is widened to let more persons petition for re-review.