THE
GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST
REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No:
22/2000/ND-CP
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Hanoi,
July 10, 2000
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DECREE
ON SANCTIONS AGAINST ADMINISTRATIVE VIOLATIONS IN THE FIELD
OF SECURITIES AND SECURITIES MARKET
THE GOVERNMENT
Pursuant to the September 30, 1992 Law on
Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the July 6, 1995 Ordinance on the Handling of Administrative
Violations;
At the proposal of the Chairman of the State Securities Commission,
DECREES:
Chapter I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1.- Regulations scope and objects
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2. Administrative violations in the field of
securities and securities market include:
a/ Violations of regulations on securities
issuing activities;
b/ Violations of regulations on securities
transactions;
c/ Violations of regulations on securities
trading, registration, clearing and custody activities;
d/ Violations of the reporting and information
disclosing regime, and obstructing inspection and examination activities.
3. All Vietnamese organizations and/or
individuals that commit acts of administrative violation in the field of
securities and securities market shall be sanctioned according to this Decree.
Foreign organizations and/or individuals that
commit violation acts in the field of securities and securities market on the
territory of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam shall also be administratively
sanctioned according to this Decree, except otherwise provided for by relevant
international treaty(ies) which Vietnam has signed or acceded to.
Article 2.- Sanctioning forms and other measures
1. For each act of administrative violation in
the field of securities and securities market, the violating organization or
individual shall be subject to either of the two following forms of principal
sanction:
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Fine: The fine levels shall comply with the fine
bracket specified in this Decree. For violations with extenuating
circumstances, lower fine levels shall be imposed, but must not be lower than
the minimum level of the fine bracket. For violations with aggravating
circumstances, higher fine levels shall be imposed, but must not exceed the
maximum level of the fine bracket.
2. Depending on the nature and seriousness of
their violations, violating individuals and/or organizations may also be subject
to one or several of the following forms of additional sanction:
a/ Stripping of the right to use securities
issuance licenses, securities trading operation licenses and/or securities
trading practice licenses for a definite or indefinite time;
b/ Confiscation of all amounts earned from the
commission of violation acts as well as securities volumes involved in
violation acts.
3. In addition to the sanctioning forms
prescribed in Clauses 1 and 2 of this Article, violating organizations and/or
individuals may also be subject to one or several of the following measures:
a/ Compelled restoration of the prescribed
safety rates or the initial state;
b/ Compelled cancellation or correction of
erroneous or untrue information;
c/ Compelled compensation for damage caused by
administrative violations, according to provisions of law.
The additional sanctioning forms and other
measures prescribed in Clauses 2 and 3 of this Article shall be applied in
really necessary cases, aiming to thoroughly handle violations, do away with
causes and conditions for further violations and overcome consequences caused
by administrative violations in the field of securities and securities market.
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1. The statute of limitations for sanctioning an
administrative violation in the field of securities and securities market shall
be two years from the date such administrative violation is committed. Past the
said time limit, no sanction shall be imposed, but the measure of compelled
restoration of the initial state wrecked by such administrative violation may
be applied.
2. An individual, who has committed an act of violating
the regulations on securities and securities market and been subject to
lawsuit, prosecution or a decision to bring the case to trial according to the
criminal procedures, then a decision to suspend the investigation or the case,
shall be administratively sanctioned if he/she had committed an administration
violation act prescribed in this Decree. The statute of limitations for
sanctioning the administrative violation shall be three months from the date
the above-said suspension decision is issued.
3. Within the time limits prescribed in Clauses
1 and 2 of this Article, if the violating organizations and/or individuals
commit new acts of administrative violation in securities and securities market
activities or intentionally evade or impede the sanctioning, the statute of
limitations prescribed in Clauses 1 and 2 of this Article shall not apply.
4. If over one year after the sanctioning
decision is either completely executed or invalidated, the administratively
sanctioned organization or individual does not relapse into violations,
it/he/she shall be regarded as having never been sanctioned for administrative
violations.
Chapter II
VIOLATION ACTS AND
SANCTIONING FORMS
Section I. VIOLATIONS OF THE
REGULATIONS ON THE ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES TO THE PUBLIC
Article 4.- Sanctions against acts of violating the regulations on the
issuance of securities to the public
1. A fine of between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000
VND shall be imposed for one of the following violation acts:
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b/ Using information outside the prospectus to
probe the market before being permitted to issue securities;
c/ Distributing securities before making the
issuance announcement;
d/ Issuing securities at variance with the
contents inscribed in the issuance licenses regarding the securities volume and
types, issuance time limit;
e/ Announcing the securities issuance on the
mass media at variance with the prescribed contents and time, or registering
the issuance but failing to clearly announce information on the right to vote,
right to register for securities purchase, right to convert securities and
other rights of shareholders and investors.
2. A fine of between 10,000,000 and 20,000,000
VND shall be imposed on organizations and/or individuals that take part in the
compilation of dossiers of application for the issuance of securities to the
public (including audit report, asset assessment report and documents for
signing issuance underwriting commitments), for forgeries in the dossiers of
application for the issuance.
3. A fine of between 20,000,000 and 50,000,000
VND shall be imposed for acts of issuing securities to the public without
licenses.
4. Additional sanctioning forms:
a/ Stripping of the right to use securities
issuance licenses for 60 days, for violations prescribed in Clause 1 of this
Article;
b/ Stripping of the right to use securities
issuance licenses indefinitely, for cases of relapse into violations prescribed
in Clause 1 or violations prescribed in Clause 2 of this Article.
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5. Application of other measures:
In cases where an issuing organization is
subject to an additional sanction prescribed at Point a or b, Clause 4 of this
Article, and the investors request the cancellation of their subscriptions or
return the already purchased securities, such issuing organization shall have
to withdraw the already issued securities; reimburse securities purchase money
or deposits and have to pay the interests on such purchase money amounts or
deposits to the purchasers at the demand interest rate of the designated
payment bank within 30 days counting from the date the decision on issuance
suspension or decision on withdrawal of the securities issuance license is
issued.
Section II. VIOLATIONS OF THE
REGULATIONS ON SECURITIES TRANSACTIONS
Article 5.- Sanctions against acts of violating the regulations on
securities transaction activities
1. A fine of between 20,000,000 and 50,000,000
VND shall be imposed for one of the following acts:
a/ Conducting by oneself or in collusion with
other persons simultaneously the purchase and sale of one kind of securities in
order to create sham supply-demand state or false prices;
b/ Conducting securities purchase or sale
transactions without effecting the transfer of securities ownership in order to
change market prices of such kind of securities;
c/ Using or disclosing internal information to
other persons, so that the latter effect their securities purchase and/or
purchase subscription, or securities sale and/or sale offer;
d/ Fabricating and spreading untrue information
in order to change securities prices, thus causing interference on securities
market;
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f/ Selling securities in all forms while not
owning the securities at the time of transaction;
g/ Purchasing and/or selling securities listed
outside the Securities Trading Center and/or the Stock Exchange;
h/ Organizing the issuance or effecting the
re-purchase and/or re-sale of one’s own securities without permission of the
State Securities Commission.
2. Additional sanctioning forms:
a/ Stripping of the right to use the securities
trading operation licenses for a period of 45 days, which may be extended for
another 15 days, for violations prescribed in Clause 1 of this Article. If past
the said time limit, the violators still fail to remedy their violations, they
shall be stripped of the right to use the securities trading operation licenses
indefinitely;
b/ Confiscation of all amounts earned from the
commission of administrative violation acts prescribed in Clause 1 of this
Article.
3. Application of other measures:
a/ Compelled restoration of the initial state,
for violations prescribed at Points f, g and h, Clause 1 of this Article;
b/ Compelled compensation for damage caused to
investors, for violations prescribed at Points a, b, c and e, Clause 1 of this
Article.
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1. A fine of between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000
VND shall be imposed for one of the following violation acts:
a/ Organizations and/or individuals conduct
securities purchasing and/or selling transactions, thus changing their holding
of 5% or more of voting shares or no longer holding 5% of voting shares of an
issuing organization, without reporting such to the Securities Trading Center
or the Stock Exchange within 24 hours;
b/ Organizations, individuals or persons
involved in the securities purchase who purchase securities in order to hold
more than 25% of voting shares of an issuing organization without going through
a public bidding according to the State Securities Commission’s regulations;
c/ Founding shareholders hold less than 20% of
equity capital of an issuing organization or the holding time has not yet
attained the prescribed minimum level of 3 years after the issuance is
finished.
2. A fine of between 20,000,000 and 50,000,000
VND shall be imposed on foreign organizations and/or individuals that conduct
securities transactions and purchase in order to hold shares or bonds of an
issuing organization beyond the level prescribed by law.
3. Application of other measures:
Compelled restoration of the exact prescribed
rates, for violations prescribed at Points b and c, Clause 1, and Clause 2 of
this Article.
Section III. VIOLATIONS OF
THE REGULATIONS ON SECURITIES TRADING, REGISTRATION, CLEARING AND CUSTODY
ACTIVITIES
Article 7.- Sanctions against acts of violating the regulations on
securities trading operation and service licenses
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a/ Using names not in consistency with those
stated in operation licenses or licenses to set up representative offices
already granted;
b/ Conducting activities in contravention of the
charters or amending the charters without the State Securities Commission’s
consent;
c/ Organizing the commencement of operations
while having not fully satisfied the conditions prescribed by law.
2. A fine of between 10,000,000 and 20,000,000
VND shall be imposed for one of the following violation acts:
a/ Conducting securities trading or providing
securities services while having not yet been granted the licenses therefor;
b/ Lending, leasing or assigning licenses;
c/ Conducting securities trading or providing
securities services in those fields not prescribed in the license or when the
license has already expired;
d/ Erasing and/or modifying operation licenses or
licenses for opening branches or licenses for setting up representative
offices;
e/ Relocating or changing head offices, shutting
down or opening more branches and/or representative offices, replacing directors
or deputy directors (general directors or deputy general directors) of
securities trading organizations without the State Securities Commission’s
consent;
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3. Additional sanctioning forms:
a/ Confiscation of all collected amounts, for
violations prescribed at Points a, b and c, Clause 2 of this Article;
b/ Stripping of the right to use trading
operation licenses for a period of 30 days, which may be extended for another
15 days, for violations prescribed at Point b, Clause 1; Points b, c, d and e,
Clause 2 of this Article;
Article 8.- Sanctions against acts of violating the regulations on
trading activities of securities trading organizations
1. A fine of between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000
VND shall be imposed on securities firms for one of the following violation
acts:
a/ Failing to maintain a sufficient liquidity
capital as prescribed by law;
b/ Procuring facilities, equipment and fixed
assets with value exceeding 50% of the charter capital;
c/ Investing more than 20% of the total value of
a listed organization’s securities currently in circulation;
d/ Investing more than 15% of the total value of
a unlisted organization’s securities currently in circulation;
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f/ Failing to make adequate deductions for
setting up reserve funds for charter capital supplements or using such funds in
contravention of law provisions.
2. A fine of between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000
VND shall be imposed on investment fund managing companies if they commit one
of the following violation acts:
a/ Failing to maintain a sufficient working
capital as prescribed by law;
b/ Investing capital and assets of a fund with
value in excess of 15% of the total value of an issuing organization’s
securities currently in circulation or investing more than 10% of the total
value of a fund’s assets in an issuing organization’s securities currently in
circulation;
c/ Investing capital and assets of funds with
value in excess of 49% of the total value of securities of an issuing
organization or a unlisted organization currently in circulation;
d/ Using capital and assets of a fund for
investment with value in excess of 10% of the equity capital of a unlisted
organization or investing more than 5% of the total value of a fund’s assets in
a unlisted organization;
e/ Investing more than 30% of the total value of
a fund’s assets in companies in the same group of companies, which are bound
together in interdependent ownership relations;
f/ Using capital and assets of a fund to
directly invest in real estate exceeding 10% of such fund’s value.
3. A fine of between 10,000,000 and 20,000,000 VND
shall be imposed on securities firms if they commit one of the following
violation acts:
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b/ Failing to separate the dealing operation from
brokerage operation for clients.
4. A fine of between 20,000,000 and 50,000,000
VND shall be imposed on securities firms and investment fund managing companies
if they commit one of the following violation acts:
a/ Taking part in securities credit and lending
activities;
b/ Using capital and assets of securities
investment funds for lending or guarantee;
c/ Using capital of an investment fund to invest
in or to purchase assets of another fund under their management.
5. Additional sanctioning forms:
a/ Stripping of the right to use the trading
operation licenses for a period of 30 days, which may be extended for another
15 days, for cases of relapse into violations prescribed in Clauses 1, 2 and 3
of this Article;
b/ Stripping of the right to use trading operation
licenses for an indefinite time, for cases of relapse into violations
prescribed in Clause 4 of this Article; or for case of failing to overcome the
consequences of violations prescribed in Clauses 1, 2 and 3 of this Article
even when the time limit for stripping of the right to use the business
operation license is over.
6. Application of other measures
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Article 9.- Sanctions against acts of violating the regulations on
securities trading practitioners
1. A fine of between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000
VND shall be imposed on securities trading and service companies that commit
one of the following violation acts:
a/ Disposing persons without practice licenses
to perform operations that require practice licenses as prescribed by the State
Securities Commission.
b/ Failing to replace or transfer to other
positions persons, who have their practice licenses withdrawn under the State
Securities Commission’s decisions or are compelled to transfer to other jobs.
2. The right to use practice licenses shall be
deprived in cases where:
a/ Securities trading practitioners
simultaneously work for or contribute capital to two or more securities firms;
act as directors, Managing Board members or shareholders holding more than 5%
of the voting shares of issuing organizations; lend out their securities
trading practice licenses;
b/ Persons having practice licenses personally
take part in the short-sale of securities not under their ownership at the time
of transaction; purchase securities while the issuing organizations have not
yet disclosed information to the public; disclose and/or disseminate untrue
information; take part in securities credit and lending activities; take part
in the market control and manipulation activities.
Article 10.- Sanctions against acts of violating the regulations on
responsibilities of supervisory banks
1. A fine of between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000
VND shall be imposed for one of the following violation acts:
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b/ The supervisory bank engaged in the asset
preservation breaches the contract for management and supervision in securities
investment already signed with a fund managing company.
2. Additional sanctioning forms:
Stripping of the right to use securities custody
licenses for a period of 30 days, which may be extended for 15 days, for
violations prescribed at Points a and b, Clause 1 of this Article. If past such
time limit, the violators still fail to overcome consequences of the violations,
they shall have their license use right deprived indefinitely.
Article 11.-
Sanctions against acts of violating the regulations on
securities registration, clearing and custody
1. A fine of between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000
VND shall be imposed on securities registration, clearing payment and/or
custody organizations that commit one of the following violation acts:
a/ Lending securities on clients’ accounts or
pledging clients’ securities;
b/ Violating the regulations on the time limit
for certifying securities balance, transferring the ownership over securities,
or modifying or forging vouchers in payment for securities transfers, thus
causing material losses to clients;
c/ Violating the regime of preserving and
keeping securities, the regime of keeping original vouchers on securities
registration, payment and keeping;
d/ Failing to fully, accurately and promptly
supply the list of securities holders and relevant documents to the issuing
companies.
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Confiscation of amounts earned from the
commission of violation acts prescribed at Point a, Clause 1 of this Article.
3. Application of other measures:
Compelled compensation for damage caused by
violations prescribed in Clause 1 of this Article.
Section IV. VIOLATIONS OF THE
REPORTING AND INFORMATION DISCLOSING REGIME AND OBSTRUCTING INSPECTION AND
EXAMINATION ACTIVITIES
Article 12.-
Sanctions against acts of violating the regulations on
the reporting regime in securities trading activities
1. A warning shall be served for one of the
following violation acts:
Submitting incomplete reports, failing to submit
reports within the prescribed time limit or submitting reports made not
according to the form set by the State Securities Commission.
2. A fine of between 200,000 and 1,000,000 VND
shall be imposed for a relapse into one of the violations prescribed in Clause
1 of this Article.
3. A fine of between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000
VND shall be imposed for one of the following violation acts:
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b/ A securities firm, investment fund-managing
company or securities custody organization fails to report or has reported but
not in time the occurrence of unusual events that may severely affect the
financial capabilities and business operations of such securities firm,
investment fund managing company or securities custody organization.
4. Additional sanctioning forms:
Stripping of the right to use securities trading
operation licenses for a period of 30 days, which may be extended for another
15 days, in cases where securities firms, investment fund-managing companies
and/or securities custody organizations commit violations prescribed at Points
a and b, Clause 3 of this Article. If past such time limit, the violators still
fail to remedy their violations, they shall have their securities trading
operation licenses deprived indefinitely.
Article 13.-
Sanctions against acts of violating the regulations on
information disclosure
1. A fine of between 5,000,000 and 20,000,000
VND shall be imposed for one of the following violation acts:
a/ Failing to supply information adequately,
promptly, periodically and at the places prescribed by law;
b/ Supplying untrue information and reports;
c/ Revealing confidential data and documents,
but not seriously enough for penal liability examination;
d/ Announcing changes in the already publicized
important information contents without explaining and reporting them to the
State Securities Commission, the Securities Trading Center and the Stock
Exchange;
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2. Application of other measures:
a/ Compelled cancellation or correction of
erroneous and/or untrue information;
b/ Compelled compensation for damage caused by
information disclosing organizations to investors, in cases of violations of
the regulations on information disclosure.
Article 14.-
Sanctions against acts of obstructing the inspections
and examinations or failing to realize the inspectors’ proposals
1. A warning shall be served to securities
issuing, trading and transaction organizations and/or individuals engaged in
securities activities that commit one of the following violation acts:
Delaying, shirking or resisting the full and
timely supply of documents, vouchers and/or data at the requests of inspection
organizations, inspection delegations or inspectors while they are on duty;
2. A fine of between 200,000 and 1,000,000 VND
shall be imposed for cases of relapse into one of the violations prescribed in
Clause 1 of this Article.
3. A fine of between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000
VND shall be imposed for one of the following violation acts:
a/ Failing to execute handling decisions of
inspection delegations;
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c/ Removing, relocating or taking other acts to
change the status quo of sealed money and securities, accounting books, files
and vouchers or other sealed material evidences and means without permission.
Chapter III
SANCTIONING COMPETENCE
AND PROCEDURES
Article 15.-
Sanctioning competence
1. Specialized inspectors of the State
Securities Commission may:
a/ Serve warnings;
b/ Impose fines of up to 200,000 VND;
c/ Compel the restoration of the exact prescribed
safety rates or initial state;
d/ Compel the cancellation or correction of
erroneous or fabricated information.
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a/ Serve warnings;
b/ Impose fines of up to 20,000,000 VND;
c/ Strip of the right to use securities issuing
licenses, securities trading operation licenses and securities trading practice
licenses for a definite or indefinite time;
d/ Confiscate for public funds all amounts
earned from the commission of violation acts and the securities volumes
involved in violations acts;
e/ Compel the restoration of the exact
prescribed safety rates or initial state;
f/ Compel the cancellation or correction of
erroneous or untrue information;
g/ Compel the compensation for damage caused by
administrative violation acts.
3. The presidents of the provincial People’s Committees may sanction,
according to the competence defined in Article 28 of the Ordinance on the
Handling of Administrative Violations within the geographical areas under their
respective management, the administrative violations in the field of securities
and securities market prescribed in this Decree.
Article 16.-
Authorized sanctioning
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Article 17.-
Sanctioning procedures
The procedures for sanctioning administrative
violations in the field of securities and securities market shall comply with
the provisions of the Ordinance on the Handling of Administrative Violations.
Article 18.-
Execution of sanctioning decisions and coerced execution
of sanctioning decisions
1. Organizations and/or individuals sanctioned
for their administrative violations according to this Decree shall have to
strictly execute sanctioning decisions of the persons competent to sanction
administrative violations in the field of securities and securities market.
Failing to execute the sanctioning decisions or intentionally shirking the
execution of sanctioning decisions, the violators shall be coerced to do so
according to Article 55 of the Ordinance on the Handling of Administrative Violations.
The finance and banking agencies, the people’s police forces and local
administrations of all levels shall have to coordinate with one another in
enforcing coercive decisions of the persons competent to sanction
administrative violations in the field of securities and securities market.
2. When applying coercive measures for the
execution of administrative violation sanctioning decisions, the competent
agencies and persons shall have to comply with the coercion order and
procedures as prescribed by law.
Chapter IV
COMPLAINTS,
DENUNCIATIONS AND HANDLING OF VIOLATIONS
Article 19.-
Complaints and/or denunciations and settlement thereof
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In cases where the complaining organizations
and/or individuals disagree with the complaint settling decisions, they may
lodge further complaints to persons with higher competence to settle complaints
or initiate administrative lawsuits at the court according to provisions of
law.
2. Individuals may denounce to the competent
State agencies acts of administrative violation prescribed in this Decree,
which are committed by organizations and/or individuals, according to
provisions of the 1998 Law on Complaints and Denunciations.
3. Individuals may denounce to the competent State
agencies illegal acts committed by persons competent to sanction administrative
violations defined in Article 15 of this Decree.
Article 20.-
Handling of violations
1. Persons competent to sanction administrative
violations in the field of securities and securities market, who tolerate or
cover up violating organizations and/or individuals, fail to impose sanctions
or impose sanctions not according to law provisions or impose sanctions beyond
their prescribed competence, shall, depending on the nature and seriousness of
their violations, be disciplined or examined for penal liability. If material
loss is caused, they shall have to make compensation therefor according to law
provisions.
2. Sanctioned persons who take acts against
persons on duty, delay or shirk the execution of sanctioning decisions or
commit other violation acts shall, depending on the nature and seriousness of
their violations, be administratively handled or examined for penal liability.
If material loss is caused, they shall have to make compensation therefor
according to law provisions.
Chapter V
IMPLEMENTATION PROVISIONS
Article 21.-
Implementation effect
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Article 22.-
Implementation guidance and responsibility
The Chairman of the State Securities Commission
shall have to guide in detail the implementation of this Decree.
The ministers, the heads of the
ministerial-level agencies, the heads of the agencies attached to the
Government and the presidents of the People’s
Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities shall have to implement
this Decree.
ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT
FOR THE PRIME MINISTER
DEPUTY PRIME MINSTER
Nguyen Tan Dung