THE STATE BANK
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC
OF VIET NAM
Independence Freedom Happiness
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No. 1122/2001/QD-NHNN
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Hanoi, September 04th, 2001
(as amended 29 July 20021 and as
further amended 4 July 20082)
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DECISION
ON SHAREHOLDERS, SHARES, SHARE CERTIFICATES AND CHARTER
CAPITAL OF STATE AND PEOPLE'S COMMERCIAL SHAREHOLDING BANKS ISSUING REGULATIONS
ON SHAREHOLDERS, SHARES, SHARE CERTIFICATES AND CHARTER CAPITAL OF STATE AND
PEOPLE'S COMMERCIAL SHAREHOLDING BANKS
THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE BANK
Pursuant to the Law on the State Bank 01-1997-QH10 and the Law on Credit Institutions 02-1997-QH10 dated
12 December 1997;
Pursuant to the Law on Enterprises 13-1999-QH10 dated 12 June 1999;
Pursuant to Decree 15-CP of the Government dated 2 March 1993 on duties, powers and responsibilities
for State administration of ministries and ministerial equivalent
bodies;
Pursuant to Decree 49/2000/ND-CP of the Government dated 12 September 2000
on organization and operation of commercial banks;
On the proposal of the Director of the Department for Banks and Non-Banking Credit Institutions;
DECIDES:
Article 1
To issue
with this Decision the Regulations on Shareholders, Shares, Share Certificates and Charter Capital of State and People's Commercial
Shareholding Banks.
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This Decision shall be of full force and effect after fifteen
(15) days from the date of its signing
and shall replace the provisions on commercial shareholding banks
in the Regulations on Shareholders,
Shares, Share Certificates
and Charter Capital of Shareholding
Credit Institutions issued with Decision 275-QD/NH5
of the Governor of the State Bank
dated 7 November 1994.
Article 3
The Head of the
State Bank Office, the Director
of the Department for Banks and Non-Banking Credit Institutions, the Head of the State
Bank Inspectorate,
heads of relevant units of the Central
State Bank,
directors of State Bank branches
of provinces and cities,
and chairmen and members of boards of management
and of boards of controllers and
general directors (directors) of State and people's commercial shareholding banks shall be responsible for
implementation of this Decision.
THE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE BANK
DEPUTY DIRECTOR
Tran Minh Tuan
REGULATIONS
ON SHAREHOLDERS, SHARES, SHARE CERTIFICATES AND
CHARTER CAPITAL OF STATE AND PEOPLE'S COMMERCIAL SHAREHOLDING BANKS
(Issued with Decision
1122/2001/QD-NHNN of the State Bank
of Vietnam dated 4 September 2001 and amended by Decision 797/2002/QD-NHNN of the State Bank of
Vietnam dated 29 July
2002)
Chapter I
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Article 1
These Regulations
shall apply to State commercial
shareholding banks and people's
commercial shareholding banks
(hereinafter referred to as commercial shareholding
banks) which are licensed to operate in Vietnam under the
provisions of the Law on Credit Institutions.
Article 2
In these Regulations
the following terms shall
be construed as follows:
1. Legal capital means the minimum level of capital stipulated by the law on
establishment of a commercial shareholding bank.
2. Charter capital means the
amount of paid up capital
from all shareholders
and recorded in the charter
of the commercial shareholding
bank.
3. Shares means the equal parts
into which charter capital has been divided.
4. Share certificates means certificates issued by a commercial shareholding bank
confirming ownership of one or a number of shares in that commercial shareholding bank.
Shares may or may not record a name, in accordance with the provisions in the charter of the commercial shareholding
bank.
5. Shareholder means an organization
or individual being the owner of one or a number of shares in a
commercial shareholding
bank.
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7. Major shareholder means an organization or individual owning over ten (10) per cent of the charter
capital or holding over ten (10) per
cent of the share capital with voting rights
in the commercial shareholding bank.
8. Dividend means
the amount of money deducted annually from the profits of a commercial shareholding bank
to be paid on each share.
Article 3
A commercial
shareholding bank may only list its shares
at a Securities Trading Centre upon written
approval from the State Bank.
The State Bank shall provide specific regulations on granting approval for commercial
shareholding banks to list shares, to take
part in trading, and to issue new shares at a Securities Trading Centre.
Any commercial shareholding bank participating in the securities market must comply
with the law on securities
and the securities market.
Article 4
A commercial
shareholding bank must
have at least thirty five (35) shareholders (or
twenty (25) shareholders in the case of a commercial shareholding bank operating in the rural sector),
including one
shareholder being a State owned enterprise or a shareholding company with capital contribution by a State owned
enterprise of over thirty (30) per
cent of charter capital.
Article 5
Foreign organizations
or individuals may only purchase
shares in commercial shareholding
banks with permission from the
State Bank.
Chapter II
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Section I.
SHAREHOLDERS, SHARES, SHARE CERTIFICATES AND DIVIDENDS
Part I
SHAREHOLDERS AND SHARES
Article 6
Shareholders
of a commercial shareholding bank
shall include State owned
enterprises, State credit institutions, individuals and
other organizations contributing capital.
Article 7
1. A commercial shareholding bank must have ordinary shares, and the persons owning them shall be
called ordinary shareholders.
2. A commercial
shareholding bank may have preferential voting shares, and the persons owning them
shall be called preferential voting shareholders.
2.1. Preferential voting shares means shares with a greater number of votes attached to them than
ordinary shares. The charter of a commercial
shareholding bank shall contain
regulations on the number of votes for one preferential voting share.
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2.3. Shareholders owning
preferential voting shares
may not assign them to any other
person.
3. Ordinary
shares may not be converted into preferential voting shares. Preferential voting shares may be converted into ordinary shares
pursuant to a decision of the general meeting of shareholders.
Article 8. Rights of shareholders
1. Ordinary
shareholders shall
have the following rights:
(a) To participate in, and to vote on all issues within
the authority of, the general meeting
of shareholders; to stand, or to nominate another person, for election as a member of the board of management or board of controllers (if there is the
minimum number of shares as
prescribed by
the charter of the commercial
shareholding bank).
Each ordinary share shall have one vote;
(b) To receive
dividends in the sum decided by
the general meeting of shareholders;
(c) To be given priority to purchase
new shares when the commercial
shareholding bank increases
its charter capital;
(d) To assign shares in accordance with the charter of the commercial shareholding bank and the regulations of the State Bank;
(dd)
To receive information on the operational status of the bank in accordance with the provisions in the charter of the commercial
shareholding bank;
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(g) Upon dissolution or bankruptcy of the commercial shareholding bank, to receive that part of the residual assets corresponding to the number of paid-up shares in the
commercial shareholding
bank in accordance with the law on dissolution and bankruptcy;
(h) Other rights in accordance with
law and the charter of the commercial
shareholding bank.
2. Major
shareholders which have held their shares for at least six consecutive months shall have the rights:
(a) To nominate a person to the
board of management or board
of controllers;
(b) To view and to receive
a copy or an extract
of the list of shareholders with the right to attend a
general meeting of shareholders;
(c) To request
that a general meeting of shareholders be
convened;
(d) Other
rights in accordance with the provisions of the charter of the commercial
shareholding bank and in accordance
with law.
3. Preferential
voting shareholders shall, in addition to the same rights
as ordinary shareholders,
be entitled to vote on issues within the authority of the general meeting of shareholders with the number
of votes stipulated by the charter of the
commercial shareholding
bank.
Article 9. Obligations of shareholders
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2. To comply
with the charter and with the internal regulations of the commercial shareholding
bank;
3. To comply
with decisions of the general meeting of shareholders
and of the board of management;
4. To be responsible for debts and other property obligations of the commercial shareholding bank to
the extent of the amount of their
paid-up capital;
5. Not to withdraw share capital in any form whatsoever;
6. To fulfil other obligations in accordance with the provisions
of the charter of the commercial
shareholding bank and in accordance
with law.
Article 10. Founding shareholders
and
rights of founding shareholders
1. For
the first three
years from the date on which a commercial shareholding bank is
issued with a business registration certificate, the founding shareholders must together hold at least twenty (20) per
cent of the ordinary shares offered for sale; and the ordinary shares of the founding shareholders may
be assigned to non-shareholders if the general meeting
of shareholders consents. Founding shareholders which propose
to assign their shares may not vote on that issue.
2. Upon
expiry of three years, the restrictions on
the ordinary shares of founding shareholders as
stipulated in clause 1 of this article shall
be lifted.
Article 11. Shareholders register
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(a) Name and
head office of commercial shareholding
bank;
(b) Total
number of shares permitted
to be offered for sale, classes of shares permitted
to be offered for sale, and numbers
of each class of shares permitted to be offered for sale;
(c) Fluctuations in total number of shares sold in each class
and value of paid-up share capital;
(d) Names
and addresses of shareholders, numbers of each
class of shares and total overall number
of shares of each shareholder,
and dates on which
the shares were registered.
2. The shareholders register must be retained at the head office of the commercial shareholding bank.
Every six months, the commercial shareholding bank must report in writing to the State Bank branch
in the locality where it has its head office if
there is a change in any one of the items listed in clause 1 of this article.
Part II
PURCHASE, OFFERING FOR
SALE, AND ASSIGNMENT OF SHARES
Article 12
1. Shares of commercial shareholding
banks may be purchased in Vietnamese dong, in freely convertible
foreign currency, with gold, with the value of land use
rights or with other assets as stipulated in the charter of the commercial shareholding
bank and in accordance with law.
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Article 13
1. The board of management shall make a decision in accordance with
law on the price at which shares
shall be offered for sale. If that price is higher than the par value of the shares, there must be a
resolution of the general meeting of shareholders, and the difference shall be accounted for in the
reserve fund for supplementing charter capital.3
2. The correct and complete information required by article 11(d) of this Decision shall be recorded in the shareholders register after shares have been sold or transferred, and as from that date the share
purchaser or the share
transferee shall become a shareholder of the commercial
shareholding bank.
3. The procedures and order
for offering shares
for sale at a Securities Trading Centre shall be implemented in accordance with law.
Article 14
1. Shares of members of the board of management and of the board of controllers; and shares of major
shareholders, of founding shareholders and of foreigners in a commercial
shareholding bank shall be issued
in the form of a named share certificate.
The State Bank must approve any transfer of named
share certificates the total of which exceeds twenty (20) per cent of the charter capital
(as from the most recent
transfer registered at the
State Bank).
2. The State Bank must provide
written approval
to any change in the share ratio of major shareholders of a commercial shareholding
bank.
3. During their period in office and while they are subject to any proceedings for loss for which they are personally
liable pursuant to a resolution
of the general meeting
of shareholders,
members of the board of management and
of the board of controllers and
the general director (director) may not
transfer their shares,
except in the following cases:
(a) Transfer of the number of shares above
the minimum level required to hold office in accordance with
the provisions in the charter
of the commercial shareholding
bank;
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Article 15
1. The file for a change in the shares of a
shareholder as stipulated in clauses 1 and 2 of article 14 shall comprise:
(a) Submission from the chairman
of the board of management;
(b) Application from the shareholder to transfer shares (the application of a legal
entity must be signed
and sealed by its legal representative);
(c) Application from the shareholder to purchase shares,
including an undertaking as
to the legality of the funds with which the shares are to be purchased, its acceptance of the current
financial situation and charter of the commercial shareholding bank, and compliance with all regulations relating to share purchases (the application of a legal entity must be signed and sealed
by its legal representative);
(d) File of a shareholder transferring shares less than twenty (20) per cent of charter
capital;
(dd)
Other relevant legal documents.
2. A commercial shareholding
bank must prepare a file (two main
sets)
in accordance with the provisions in clause 1 of this article and submit it to the State Bank branch in the locality
where its head office is located.
Within a time-limit of fifteen (15) days from the date of receipt of a complete
file, the State Bank branch must check the share transfer prior to any change in order to ensure that
the share capital of shareholders remains
lawful and must provide a written response
to the commercial shareholding bank approving the share transfer, or not approving
(if it considers the file does not comply with the regulations and the change of shareholding may destabilize the operations
of the commercial shareholding bank). In the case of non-approval, the response must specify the
reasons.
3. After
the transfer of shares of a shareholder, a commercial shareholding bank must report
by sending a copy of the list of shareholders to the State Bank (the State Bank branch in the locality
where its head office is
located and also to the Banking
Department of the State Bank).
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RESTRICTIONS ON SHARE
OWNERSHIP
Article 16
1. Any State owned enterprise and any companies in which that State owned enterprise holds fifty (50)
per cent or more of the charter capital may not together own a number of shares exceeding forty (40)
per cent of the charter capital
of any one commercial shareholding bank.
2. With respect to shareholders other than State owned enterprises:
any organization and its representative, or any company and its subsidiaries which are
legal entities, may own shares
not exceeding thirty (30) per cent of the charter capital of any one commercial shareholding bank.
3. Shareholders being individuals may own shares not exceeding
fifteen (15) per cent of the charter capital of
any one commercial shareholding
bank.
4. Shareholders being individuals and related persons within their family (parents, spouses, children or
siblings) may own shares
not exceeding thirty (30) per cent of
the charter capital of any one commercial shareholding bank.
5. If one member of a family is already the representative for the capital share of a shareholder being an individual
who has paid-up capital in a commercial shareholding bank, the remaining family members may only own less than twenty (20) per cent of the charter capital of the commercial shareholding
bank.
Part IV
SHARE CERTIFICATES AND
DIVIDENDS
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Share certificates
of a commercial shareholding bank
may not be used for a financial pledge
to the commercial shareholding bank which
issued such certificates.
Article 18
1. Share certificates of a commercial
shareholding bank must contain the following principal
items:
(a) Name and
main headquarters of the commercial shareholding
bank;
(b) Number
and
date of issuance of licence for
establishment and operation;
(c) Number
of shares and class of shares;
(d) Par value of each share and
total value of number of shares stated
on the share certificate;
(e) Name of the shareholder
(with named share certificates);
(f) Summary of the procedures
for transferring
the share certificate;
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(h) Registered
number in the shareholders register and
date of issuance of the share certificate;
(i) In addition to the above matters, share certificates
for preferential voting shares must
also record the number of votes in accordance with the provisions in the charter of the commercial
shareholding bank.
2. Within
a time-limit of thirty (30) days from the date of commencement of operation (in the case of a newly-established commercial
shareholding bank), or
from the date on which the commercial shareholding bank registers with the competent
State body its new charter capital level (in the case
of a
commercial shareholding bank already operating), the commercial shareholding bank must
issue new share certificates
to shareholders.
Article 19
A commercial
shareholding bank
may administer share certificates by retaining
them on behalf of shareholders, or it may issue share certificates at the request of shareholders.
If a
named share certificate
is lost, torn, burnt, or destroyed in any other way, the shareholder must immediately notify the commercial
shareholding bank and request that it re-issue another share certificate and the shareholder must pay a fee
as regulated by the commercial shareholding bank.
Article 20 Payment of dividends
1. A commercial shareholding bank may only pay shareholders
a dividend when it has made a business profit, and when it has paid all taxes and other financial
obligations in accordance with
law.
2. At least thirty (30) days prior to each occasion on which a dividend is paid, the board of management must prepare a list of shareholders to receive
a dividend, confirming the amount of dividend to be paid on each class of share and the period and form of payment.
A notice of payment of dividend must be publicly sent to each shareholder at least fifteen (15) days prior to the date on which the dividend is to be paid. Such notice must specify the name of the commercial
shareholding bank, the
name and address of the shareholder, the numbers of each class of share held by the shareholder,
the amount of dividend
to be paid on each class of share, the total dividend
to be received by the
shareholder, and the date and method
of
payment.
3. With
respect to a shareholder which transfers
its shares in the period between the completion of the list
of shareholders to receive a dividend and the date of payment, the transferor shall be entitled to receive the dividend from the commercial
shareholding bank.
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Article 21
1. Charter capital shall be
accounted for in Vietnamese dong (VND).
2. A commercial shareholding bank must ensure that the actual amount of charter capital does not fall
below the legal capital required
by law.
Article 224
1. Charter capital
of a commercial shareholding
bank
may be increased by issuing new
share certificates, by being supplemented
from the reserve fund for supplementing charter capital, or by re- valuing fixed assets, and from other funds in accordance with law.
Prior to implementation of such methods,
both the general meeting of shareholders
and the State Bank must provide
written approval.
2. In the case where the charter
capital of a commercial shareholding
bank
is decreased, the amendment
shall be dealt with as follows:
2.1. Circumstances in which it is compulsory to decrease charter capital:
(a) Losses
in three consecutive years; the commercial shareholding bank
must make a decision
to decrease its charter capital by the amount of losses accumulated
in the third year;
(b) Items
of investment capital are determined or decided by the competent State body to
be operational losses after deduction of the risks reserve;
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(d) A re-valuation of fixed assets in accordance with law results in the diminution of their value.
2.2. In
the circumstances stipulated in clause 2.1 above, the commercial shareholding bank must convene an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders,
or place an item on the agenda of
a regular general meeting of shareholders, for a decision
on methods to deal with the decrease, after
it has applied other financial
methods (using the reserve
fund for supplementing charter capital to make up the deficit;
contributing additional capital to resolve the deficit, and so forth) without
successfully resolving
the deficit. Any decrease in charter
capital shall be associated with either or both of the forms
of a reduction in the par value of shares and a
reduction in the number
of shares.
2.3. If, after the reduction, the charter
capital remains lower than the legal capital and the commercial shareholding bank has not taken measures
to overcome this within six months, the State Bank branch shall
resolve the issue in accordance
with current regulations in the same manner as for a credit institution with legal capital below the stipulated level.
Article 23
A commercial
shareholding bank may not use its
charter capital or funds to purchase shares in, or to subscribe capital to, that same bank.
Article 24
Charter capital may be used for the following objectives:
1. To purchase or invest in its own fixed assets, not exceeding fifty (50) per cent of the charter capital
and reserve fund for supplementing
charter capital;
2. To purchase shares and to
subscribe capital in
accordance with State Bank regulations;
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4. To make loans;
5. To conduct
business in other services
in accordance with law.
Article 25
1. The State Bank must provide written approval for a commercial shareholding bank
to change its charter capital.
2.5 An application file for approval for the change in charter
capital shall comprise:
(a) Submission from the chairman of the board of management (specifying the reasons and
necessity for the change);
(b) Minutes of the general meeting of shareholders on
the change in charter capital;
(c) Plan
of change in charter capital approved by the general
meeting of shareholders, specifying
at least the following items:
(i) Requirements for a decision on
change in charter capital (specifying the utilization of capital for each relevant requirement).
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(iii) Evaluation of the capacity of the board of management and the management to manage, administer and control, and the internal control system in respect of the amount of capital
and scale of operation after change in charter capital.
(iv) The plan on change in
charter capital in a financial year must
specify at least the following items:
- Total forecast changed charter capital;
- Proposed issue tranches [of shares] in the year;
- Plan of each issue tranche: subscribers entitled
to purchase [shares], prices of the offer
made to each category of subscribers (in a case where such prices have not yet been
determined, state "not definable"; however, the price of the offer must be consistent with
the Law on Enterprises);
date of sale and other conditions (if any) relating to interests and obligations of subscribers
in each category;
- Forecast change in the structure of ownership
of shareholders holding
5% or more of charter capital of the commercial shareholding bank after each change in charter capital
and reasons for such change;
(d) List of shareholders currently holding 5% or more of charter
capital of the commercial shareholding bank and proposed
change of such shareholders after each change in charter capital, comprising names and addresses of shareholders,
numbers of shares of each class
and total number of shares, proportion
of [his/her shares to] total charter
capital of the bank.
(dd)
Summary report on structure of the board of management or the board of controllers (if any) to be changed upon change in charter capital, in which qualifications and experience in banking operations of each member
must be summarized.
(e) Files of shareholders participating
in purchase of shares for increase in charter capital:
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- Application for purchase of shares with the
signature and seal of legal representative (Appendix
1);
- Financial
statements for the year immediately before the year of purchase
of shares.
In the case of foreign
organizations, financial statements must comply with Circular 07/2007/TT-NHNN
of the State Bank dated 29 November 2007 providing
guidelines for
implementation of Decree 69/2007/ND-CP of the Government dated 20 April 2007 on
foreign investors purchasing
shares of Vietnamese commercial
banks.
In the case of Vietnamese organizations, financial statements
must satisfy the following
requirements:
+ The prevailing regulations on accounting of the State must be complied with;
+ Financial statements shall comprise a balance sheet, a profit and loss statement,
a cash flow statement and notes to the financial statements;
+ Where
a shareholder is a parent company, such shareholder must
submit consolidated financial statements in accordance
with the laws on accounting,
accompanied by financial statements of the parent company;
+ Annual
financial statements must be audited by an independent auditor
included in the list of auditing organizations qualified for carrying
out corporate
audits as published by the Ministry of Finance. The
opinion of the auditor about the
financial statements must show acceptance of the whole; where the opinion of the auditor is acceptance with an exception, such exception must not be substantial and an explanatory statement of
the grounds of such exception shall
be required;
+ Where
a file is submitted before 1 March each year, the annual
financial statements for the last year in the initial
file may be financial statements which have not yet been audited but the audited financial statements for the year
immediately before such year shall be required,
and audited financial statements
for the year immediately before the year of purchase of shares
shall be added immediately when they are available;
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+ Where there are any contingent changes after the end of the period covered by
the most recent financial statements, the shareholder
must prepare additional financial
statements up to the most recent month or quarter;
+ Financial statements which are photocopies must be certified by the authorized
State body or the auditor
(where the financial statements were audited) or must
be certified by the shareholders as true copies (in the case of unaudited financial
statements).
Where a shareholder does not have any financial statements because it has been newly established and operated in the period from 31 December of the year before the year of change in charter capital to 1 March of the year of change, the shareholder must submit the
following documents in place of the financial statements specified in this provision: a written report on financial capacity of the owner holding the right
to control such organization supported by relevant documents;
and a written undertaking
to assume sole legal responsibility
for the fact that the shareholder has sufficient financial capacity
to make capital contribution to the bank.
(ii) In
the case of an individual who currently or is expected to hold 5% or more of charter capital:
- Application from the shareholder to purchase shares (Appendix 2);
- Declaration of income and assets of the individual valued at one hundred million Dong
or more, on the form stipulated
in Appendix 3.
(iii) In
the case of shareholders being members of the board
of management or board of controllers or managerial
personnel of the bank:
Application
from the shareholder being a member
of the board of management or board of controllers or a managerial person of the bank, to purchase shares (Appendix 2). Where the
representative of a shareholder
being an organization acts
as a member of the board of management, board of controllers or as a managerial person of the bank, he or she shall only
be required to prepare an
application to purchase
shares in accordance with Appendix 1.
(g) Other relevant documents in
accordance with law.
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(a) To verify the file in accordance with
these Regulations.
(b) To evaluate the plan of change in charter capital in terms of efficiency of operation of the bank
after change in charter capital, the capacity of the commercial shareholding
bank for management, administration and
control in respect of the amount of capital and
scale of operation after change in charter
capital, and the financial capacity of shareholders which currently hold
or are
forecast to hold 5% or more of
charter capital and of any
shareholder being a credit institution.
(c) To check
the financial capacity of shareholders
purchasing shares in terms of the following items:
(i) With respect to shareholders
being an organization:
- In the case of credit institutions: After purchase
of shares of the commercial
shareholding bank, the credit institution must
comply with the prevailing regulations of
the State Bank on prudential
limits in operation of the credit institution; classification of debts, contributions made
to and utilization of the reserve for
credit risks.
- In the case of organizations
other than credit institutions currently
holding or forecast to hold 5% or more of charter capital of the commercial
shareholding bank, they must
ensure
that their equity after deducting long-term investments
funded by equity [and] current assets after deducting current
liabilities must at least be equal to the amount of capital for purchase of shares of the commercial shareholding
bank (methods of calculation are specified
in Appendix 4).
The above
norms
shall be determined on the
basis
of financial statements of the organization referred to in paragraph
e(i)
of clause 2 of this article.
(ii) With
respect to a shareholder being an individual who currently holds or is forecast
to hold 5% or more of the charter capital of the commercial shareholding
bank, he or she must prove his
capacity
to make capital contribution to
the bank by way of declaring
personal income and assets referred
to in paragraph e(ii) of clause 2 of this article.
(d) Submit its specific
proposal to the Governor of the State Bank for consideration, specifying its position on whether or not
it agrees with the change in
charter capital of the commercial shareholding bank.
After obtaining the opinion
of the State Bank,
the provincial State Bank branch shall issue written
approval for the commercial shareholding bank to change its charter
capital. Where the change in charter capital of the commercial
shareholding bank has not yet been
approved or is refused, the
provincial State Bank branch shall notify the entity in writing and specify its reasons.
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5. After
it has changed its charter capital in accordance with the letter of approval from the State Bank
branch, a commercial
shareholding bank must register the new charter capital with the competent State body and must also make an announcement in central
and local newspapers in accordance with
law. Within a time-limit of five days at the latest from the date of registration with the competent State
body, the commercial shareholding bank must forward
a notarized
copy of the letter of
approval together with a list of the shareholders who contributed the new capital and a list of all shareholders after the change in charter capital to the State Bank of
Vietnam (Department of Banks and Non-Banking Credit
Institutions at the place where
it has its head office).7
6. The board of management of a commercial shareholding bank shall be
responsible before the law for
evaluating files and for the procedures and conditions to approve shareholders subscribing capital in
accordance with the requirements
of this Decision.
Section III. GENERAL
MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
Article 26
The general meeting of shareholders shall include all shareholders with the right to vote and shall be the
highest decision-making
authority of a commercial shareholding bank.
Article 27. Duties and powers of general
meeting of shareholders
1. To amend
or supplement the charter of the commercial shareholding bank;
2. To debate and approve reports of the board of management on operational status, business results, financial finalization, plans for profits distribution,
plans for payment of share dividends, and plans for payments into and use of funds as proposed by the board of management; the orientation and tasks
of the new financial year;
3. To debate and approve reports of the board
of controllers;
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5. To divide, demerge, merge, consolidate, acquire or dissolve the bank and subsidiary companies of
the commercial shareholding
bank;
6. To decide on the organizational structure and the management and executive
apparatus of the bank;
the regulations on staff and staffing and on funds and salaries
for members of the board of management and of the board of controllers;
7. To decide
on plans for external operations;
8. To decide
on plans for construction of physical facilities and technical
equipment;
9. To approve plans for capital contribution to and purchase of shares of other enterprises and credit
institutions;
10. To approve
transfers of ordinary shares
by founding shareholders in
the first three
years in accordance with the provisions in article 10 of this Decision;
11. To make decisions on the changes stipulated in article 31.1 of the Law on Credit Institutions, except for changes of location of
transaction offices, branches and
representative offices, transfers of named shares exceeding the ratio stipulated by the State Bank, and changes of the general director (director) of the commercial shareholding
bank;
12. To decide on solutions to overcome large
financial fluctuations in the commercial
shareholding bank;
13. To elect, remove or dismiss members of the board of management or of the board of controllers at the end of their period of office
or to elect additional or replacement members;
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15. Other rights and duties stipulated
in the charter of the commercial shareholding
bank.
Article 28. Authority to convene general
meeting of shareholders
1. A general meeting of shareholders
shall be held at least
once every year.
2. A general meeting of shareholders shall
be convened pursuant
to:
(a) Decision of the board of management;
(b) A request of a shareholder or a group of shareholders holding over ten (10) per cent of the number
of ordinary shares for a continuous
period
of at least six months, or a lesser
percentage as stipulated in the charter of the commercial
shareholding bank;8
(c) At the request of the board of controllers, where the board of management is in serious breach of the obligations of managers in accordance with article 86 of the Law on Enterprises or the
board of management issues
a decision beyond its delegated authority;
(d) Other provisions in the charter of the commercial shareholding
bank;
(e) At the request of the director of the State Bank branch in the locality where the head office of
the commercial shareholding
bank is located.
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A commercial
shareholding bank shall include the costs of convening and holding a general meeting of shareholders in its expenses
of banking activities.
Article 29 List of shareholders
with right to attend general meeting
of shareholders
1. The list of shareholders with the right to attend a general meeting of shareholders shall be prepared on the basis of the shareholders register and shall be prepared when there is a decision to convene
a meeting and must be completed at least ten (10) days prior to the
opening date of the general meeting of shareholders.
2. The list of shareholders with the right to attend a general meeting of shareholders shall include full names and permanent addresses of individuals and names and head offices of organizations, and
the numbers of shareholders
of each class of share.
3. All shareholders shall have the right to be provided with the information about themselves
recorded in the list of shareholders with
the right to attend a general meeting
of shareholders.
4. Shareholders shall have the right to request the
person convening the general meeting of shareholders to amend any incorrect information or to add any necessary information about themselves in the
list of shareholders with
the right to attend the general meeting of shareholders.
Article 30 Agenda and contents of general
meeting of shareholders
1. The person
convening the general meeting
of shareholders must prepare an agenda and contents.
2. Major
shareholders shall have the right to recommend issues to be put on the agenda for the general
meeting of shareholders. A
written recommendation must specify the name of the shareholder, the
number of each class of share held, and the issues which it is recommended be put on the agenda; and
the recommendation must be submitted
to the bank at least three days prior to the opening date of the general meeting of shareholders.
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(a) The recommendation
is not submitted in time,
or its contents are not
sufficient or correct;
(b) The
recommended issue is not within the decision-making authority of the general meeting of shareholders;
(c) The issue is inconsistent
with the charter of the commercial shareholding bank or with the law.
Article 31. Invitations to attend general meeting of shareholders
1. The person convening the general meeting of shareholders must send invitations to all shareholders with the right to attend at least seven
(7) business days prior
to the opening date.
2. The invitation must enclose the meeting agenda and discussion materials to be used as the basis for
passing decisions.
Article 32 Right to attend general
meeting of shareholders
1. Shareholders may attend in person or may provide a written
proxy to a third person to attend the
general meeting of shareholders.
2. In the case where shares are transferred in the period between the date of completion of the list of
shareholders up until the opening date of the general meeting of shareholders, the transferee shall
have the right to attend the meeting in replacement of the transferor in respect
of the number of shares
transferred.
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1. A general meeting of shareholders may be held when the number of
shareholders present
represents at least fifty one (51) per
cent of the shares
with voting rights. The charter
of a commercial shareholding
bank shall stipulate
the specific ratio.
2. If an initial
general meeting of shareholders
does not satisfy
the conditions to be held stipulated
in clause 1 of this article,
a meeting must be convened for a second time within a time-limit of thirty (30) days from the date on which
the first meeting opened, and the
second general meeting of
shareholders may be held when the number of shareholders present represents at least thirty
(30) per cent of the shares with voting rights.
The charter of a commercial shareholding bank
shall stipulate the specific ratio.
3. If a second general meeting of shareholders does not satisfy the conditions to be held stipulated in
clause 2 of this article, a meeting must be convened for a third time within a time-limit of twenty (20) days from the date on which the second
meeting opened, and the third general meeting
of shareholders may be held irrespective of the number of shareholders with voting rights present.
4. Only
a general meeting of shareholders shall have the power to change a meeting agenda after it
has been sent out with the invitations to attend such meeting.
5. The charter
of a commercial shareholding bank
shall provide regulations on the method of conducting a
general meeting of shareholders and on the method of voting at it.
Article 34. Passing decisions
of general meeting of shareholders
1. A general meeting
of shareholders shall pass decisions within its authority by taking
a vote at the meeting or by obtaining
written opinions.
A decision of a general meeting of shareholders shall be
deemed to have been passed when:
(a) The shareholders which agree to the decision represent at least fifty one (51) per cent of the
total shares with voting rights.
The charter of a commercial
shareholding bank shall stipulate
the specific ratio;
(b) With respect to any decision on
the class and number of shares which
are permitted to be
offered for sale; on amending or adding to the charter of a commercial shareholding bank; or
on re-organizing or dissolving a commercial shareholding bank: The shareholders which agree
to the decision must represent at least sixty five (65) per cent of the total shares with voting
rights.
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Article 35. Minutes of general meeting of shareholders
1. A general
meeting of shareholders must
be recorded in the minutes
register
of the commercial shareholding
bank, and the minutes must contain
the following principal items:
(a) Time and location of the general meeting
of shareholders;
(b) Working agenda;
(c) Composition of people present, full names of the chairman and
secretary;
(d) Summary of the ideas expressed at the meeting;
(dd)
Issues debated and voted on at the general
meeting of shareholders; numbers of votes for, against and abstaining;
items approved;
(e) Total number of votes by shareholders present;
(g) Total number of votes on each issue voted on;
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2. The minutes of a general
meeting of shareholders must be completed and passed prior to the closing of the meeting.
Article 36. Request to repeal decisions of general meeting of shareholders
Within a time-limit of ninety (90) days from the date on which a decision is passed, shareholders, members of the board of management, the general director (director) and the board of controllers shall have the right to request a court
or the State Bank to consider
and to repeal a decision
of a general meeting of shareholders in
the following circumstances:
1. The order and procedures for convening the general meeting of shareholders were not implemented in accordance with the provisions in this Decision and in the charter of the commercial shareholding
bank;
2. The contents of the decision breach the
law or the provisions in the charter of the commercial shareholding bank.
Chapter III
FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 37
Within a maximum time-limit of six months from the
date of effectiveness of the Decision issuing these Regulations, commercial
shareholding banks must
amend their charters and their internal
regulations to comply with these Regulations.
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The Governor of the State Bank shall make decisions on any amendments of or additions to the clauses and articles in these Regulations.
Article 399
Responsibilities of relevant entitles under the
State Bank
1. The Department of Banks shall:
(a) Act as the focal entity to receive application
files for approval for change in charter capital
of commercial shareholding banks from the State Bank of the province or city in which the head
office of such commercial bank is located, and seek opinions from the Inspectorate of the State Bank and
the Department of Monetary
Policy.
(b) The Department of Banks shall, within seven (7)
business days from the date of receipt of opinions from
the Inspectorate of the State Bank
and the Department of Monetary
Policy, collate such opinions and submit them to the management of the State Bank for consideration
and a direction in writing on the change in charter capital
of the commercial bank in question.
2. The Inspectorate of the State Bank:
The Inspectorate shall, within seven (7) business days from the date of receipt of the request from
the Department of Banks (accompanied by the file for change in charter capital of the commercial
bank):
(a) Take
part in a written
evaluation of the operation
of the commercial shareholding bank under its supervision
in accordance with CAMEL norms; results of classification
of the year immediately before the
proposed year of change in charter capital; results
of inspection on site; classification of debts and contribution to reserves, and observance
of prudential limits in its operation at the most recent point of time to the date of request for the change in charter
capital.
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3. The Department of Monetary Policy:
The Department of Monetary Policy shall, within seven (7) business days from the date of receipt of the request from the Department of Banks (accompanied by the file for change in charter capital of
the commercial shareholding bank), take part in a written
evaluation of impact of the plan of change on the credit growth rate of the bank in question pursuant to guidelines of the Government; and give
its opinion to the Department
of Banks as to whether or not it agrees with the proposed change.
FOR
THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE BANK DEPUTY GOVERNOR
Tran Minh Tuan