THE
GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST
REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No.
86-CP
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Hanoi
,December 19, 1996
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DECREE
PROMULGATING THE REGULATION ON PROPERTY AUCTION
THE GOVERNMENT
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the
Government of September 30, 1992;
Pursuant to Article 454 of the Civil Code of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam;
At the proposal of the Ministry of Justice,
DECREES:
Article 1.- To
promulgate together with this Decree the Regulation on the Auction of Property.
Article 2.- This Decree
takes effect from the date of its signing. The earlier stipulations which are
contrary to the Regulation attached to this Decree are now annulled.
Article 3.- The
Ministers, the Heads of the ministerial-level agencies, the Heads of the
agencies attached to the Government, the Presidents of the People�s
Committees of the provinces and cities directly under the Central Government
shall have to organize the implementation of this Decree.
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ON BEHALF OF
THE GOVERNMENT
FOR THE PRIME MINISTER
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
Phan Van Khai
REGULATION
ON PROPERTY AUCTION
(Issued together with Decree No.86-CP of December 19, 1996)
Chapter I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1.- Scope of
regulation
1. This Regulation shall apply to the auction of
property through the State auction service organizations and business
organizations specialized in auction service.
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Article 2.-
Interpretation of terms
Terms in this Regulation shall be construed as
follows:
1. Auction is the public sale of property in
which many bidders participate according to the procedures stipulated in this
Regulation; the person who offers the highest bid which is at least equivalent
to the reserve price shall be entitled to purchase the auctioned property;
2. The auctioneer is the Auction Service Center
directly managed by the provincial/municipal Justice Service or business
organizations specialized in auction service professionally managed by the
provincial/municipal Justice Service.
3. The seller of property is the owner of
property or the person mandated to sell the property by its owner or the person
entitled to sell the property of other person(s) in accordance with the
provisions of law;
4. Auction participants can be individuals or
organizations;
5. The auction administrator is a person
appointed by the auctioneer to handle the auction;
6. The auctioned property may be movable or
immovable allowed to be sold and purchased.
Article 3.- Auction
principles
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Chapter II
AUCTIONEER
Article 4.- Auctioneer
1. The auctioneer is the Auction Service Center
set up by decision of the President of the People�s
Committee of the province or city directly under the Central Government and
directly managed by the provincial/municipal Justice Service.
The Auction Service Center attached to the
provincial/municipal Justice Service is a non-business administrative unit that
has its revenues, legal person status, bank account and its own seal.
2. The auctioneer may also be a State enterprise
established under the Law on State Enterprises, a limited liability company or
stock company established under the Corporate Law which is specialized in
auction activities and not involved in any other business and professionally
managed by the provincial/municipal Justice Service.
Article 5.- Obligations
of the auctioneer
The auctioneer shall have the following
obligations:
1. To organize the auction in accordance with
the principles and procedures provided for in this Regulation;
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3. To preserve the auctioned property when it is
entrusted to him/her as if it is his/her own property;
4. To exhibit, show and consult the dossier of
the auctioned property as prescribed by this Regulation;
5. To record all details on the auction in the
Property Auction Registration Book and make a document on the auction of
property;
6. To deliver the auctioned property to the
buyer in accordance with the provisions of Articles 25 and 26 of this
Regulation;
7. To fill procedures for the transfer of the
ownership right over the auctioned property of which the ownership needs to be
registered as prescribed by law;
8. To pay the money gained from the sale of the
property to its seller or return the unsold property to its seller according to
agreement; if there is no agreement, he/she shall have to pay the money to the
seller of the property no later than three days after receiving money from the
buyer of the property or return the property within three days at the latest
after the auction;
9. To compensate for damage caused by the breach
of obligations;
10. To pay taxes in accordance with the
provisions of law.
Article 6.- Rights of
the auctioneer
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1. To request the seller of the property to
provide fully and accurately the necessary information relating to the
auctioned property and be liable for that information;
2. To determine together with the seller the
reserve price of the auctioned property or determine by him/herself in case of
a mandate from the seller;
3. To conduct the auction of property on behalf
of the seller;
4. To request the buyer to pay in accordance
with the provisions of Articles 22 to 24 of this Regulation;
5. To collect the fee paid by the seller in
accordance with the provisions of Article 27 of this Regulation.
Chapter III
AUCTION PROCEDURES
Article 7.- Mandate
contract on auction of property
1. The auctioneer shall conduct the auction of
property only after signing a contract on mandate for the auction with the
seller of the property. The mandate contract must be made in writing and
include the following contents:
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b/ The name and address of the auctioneer;
c/ The date and place of auction;
d/ The list and description of the auctioned
property;
e/ The reserve price of the property;
f/ The time limit and mode of delivering the
property;
g/ Fee;
h/ The time limit, place and mode of payment;
i/ Rights and obligations of the parties;
j/ Responsibilities arising from the breach of
the contract;
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2. In case of a property auction for the
execution of a judgment or other handling decisions of the competent State
agencies, the property auction mandate contract shall be signed between these
agencies and the auctioneer.
3. In cases where pledged or mortgaged property
are auctioned for the fulfillment of civil obligations, the mandate contract on
auction of property shall be signed between the auctioneer, the pledgee or
mortgagee and the pledgor and mortgagor. If the auction is agreed upon in the
pledge or mortgage contract but the pledgor or mortgagor is absent without
plausible reasons or refuse to sign the auction contract, a mandate contract on
auction shall be signed between the pledgee or the mortgagee and the
auctioneer.
4. In the auction of the land use right, a
mandate contract on auction shall be signed if the auction is allowed by the
competent State agency.
Article 8.-
Determination of the reserve price
1. The seller of the property shall determine
the reserve price together with the auctioneer.
2. The auctioneer shall determine the reserve
price if he/she is so mandated by the property seller and shall have to inform
the latter of the auction before making a public announcement thereon.
3. In cases where the auctioned property is
pledged or mortgaged property, the pledgee or the mortgagee and the pledgor or
the mortgagor shall determine the reserve price with the participation of the
auctioneer.
If the pledgee or the mortgagee is the seller of
property as stipulated in Item 3, Article 7 of this Regulation, the reserve
price shall be determined by the auctioneer with the participation of the
property seller.
Article 9.- Assessment
of property
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Article 10.- Unilateral
termination of the mandate contract on property auction
The property seller and the auctioneer shall
unilaterally terminate the performance of the mandate contract on the auction
only in cases provided for in Clause 1, Article 593 of the Civil Code before
making a public announcement on the auction. The party at fault in terminating
the contract shall have to compensate for damage caused to the other party.
Article 11.- Posting
the auction notice
1. Seven days before the auction of a movable
property and thirty days before the auction of an immovable property, the
auctioneer shall have to post the auction notice at the place of auction, place
of displaying the property, place of his/her head office and place where the
auctioned immovable property is located.
2. The auction notice shall contain the
following:
a/ The time and place of auction;
b/ The name and address of the auctioneer;
c/ The name and address of the seller of the
property;
d/ The list of properties, their quantity and
quality;
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f/ The necessary information relating to the
property, including information requested to be announced publicly by the
seller;
g/ The place and time of displaying the
property;
h/ The place and time of consulting the property
dossier.
3. In cases where there are persons registering
to purchase the auctioned property as stipulated in Article 14 of this
Regulation, the list of the applicants shall have to be posted at the place of
auction two days before the auction.
Article 12.- Public
announcement
1. In addition to the posting of the auction
notice, the auctioneer shall have to announce on the mass media the auction
twice for cases prescribed in Item 2 of this Article, at an interval of three
days between two announcements. The time limit and contents of the announcement
shall comply with the stipulations of Article 11 of this Regulation.
2. The auction of movable and immovable
properties with a reserve price of 10 million VND upward must be announced
publicly. In cases where the auction property is a movable with a reserve price
of less that 10 million VND, and the seller requests a public announcement on
the auction, such a public announcement must be made.
Article 13.- Persons
not allowed to participate in auction
The following persons are not allowed to
participate in an auction of property:
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2. A person who has no civil act capacity or has
lost his/her civil act capacity or is restricted in his/her civil act capacity
as stipulated in Article 23 to Article 25 of the Civil Code or a person who at
the time of the auction, is not conscious of or cannot control his/her act;
3. Persons working in auction organizations;
their parents, spouses and children;
4. A person who has directly made the assessment
of the auctioned property; his/her parents, spouse and children.
Article 14.-
Registering for the purchase of auctioned property
1. A person wishing to participate in an auction
of immovable or movable property with a reserve price of 10 million VND upward
shall have to register for the purchase at least two days before the opening of
the auction and make a deposit equivalent to 1% of the reserve price.
2. In cases where the auctioned property is
purchased, the deposit shall be deducted from the buying price; if the property
is not purchased, the deposit shall be returned to the depositor right after
the auction.
If a person wishing to participate in the
auction has already made a deposit but later failed to participate in the
auction, the deposit shall be remitted to the State budget.
Article 15.-
Displaying, observation of the auctioned property
1. A movable property or its sample with a
reserve price of 10 million VND upward must be displayed from the time the
notice of auction is put up till two days before the auction at the announced
place. The lot of goods and list of properties which the auctioned property
belongs to as well as the name of the seller of property must be written
clearly on the property or its sample.
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3. For a movable property with a reserve price
of less than 10 million VND, within at least two days before the auction, the
auctioneer shall have to create conditions for the public to see the auctioned
property.
Article 16.- Conducting
auction
At the auction, the auction administrator shall
perform the following:
1. To introduce him/herself and his/her
assistants, if any.
2. To make a rollcall of the bidders who have
already registered to participate in the auction.
3. To present each of the auctioned properties,
repeat the reserve prices, answer questions of the bidders and ask them to
offer bids.
4. To clearly and accurately repeat in speaking
every thirty (30) seconds the latest bid which is higher than the one offered
by the previous bidder.
5. The auction administrator shall announce the
name of the winning bidder only if after repeating thrice the price offered by
that person no one offers a higher bid. In cases where many persons offer the
same price, the auction administrator shall organize a lot drawing and announce
the name of the person who has drawn the right lot, as the winning bidder.
6. The auction administrator shall have to
clearly write down the auction results in the Property Auction Registration
Book and record them in a property auction document affixed with the signatures
of the auction administrator, the buyer and two witnesses among the auction
participants. The auction document must be made right at the auction. With
regard to the auction of a immovable, the auction document must be notarized by
the State Public Notary at the place where the immovable is located.
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Article 17.- Auction
document
1. An auction document shall include the
following:
a/ The name and address of the auctioneer.
b/ The name and address of the auction
administrator.
c/ The name and address of the property seller.
d/ The name and address of the property buyer.
e/ The time and place of auction.
f/ The auctioned property.
g/ The selling price.
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i/ The time limit and place of delivery of the
auctioned property to the buyer.
j/ The names and addresses of two witnesses.
2. The auction document shall be made in four
copies, each of them shall be kept respectively by the auctioneer, the buyer,
the seller and the agency competent to register the ownership right over the property;
in cases where the registration of the ownership right over the auctioned
property is not required, the auction document shall be made in three copies.
Article 18.-
Withdrawing the offered bid
At the auction, if the highest bid offerer
withdraws his/her bid, the auction shall be immediately held anew, starting
from the previous offered bid. The person who has withdrawn the offered bid
shall not be allowed to participate in the auction.
In cases where the auctioned property is sold at
a price lower than the withdrawn bid the withdrawer shall have to pay the price
difference to the auctioneer; if the property is sold at a higher price, the
bid withdrawer shall not be entitled to the price difference.
If the auction fails, the bid withdrawer shall
have to bear all costs of the auction and not be eligible for the refund of
his/her deposit.
Article 19.- Refusing
to purchase
1. After the auction document has been made, if
the eligible buyer refuses to buy the property, his/her refusal must be
accepted by the seller of the property, but he/she shall have to bear all costs
related to the auction, unless otherwise agreed upon.
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Article 20.-
Registering the ownership right
1. The auction document is a document certifying
the sale and purchase and serves as basis for the transfer of the ownership
right over the auctioned property, which has to be registered in accordance
with the provisions of law.
2. Basing itself on the auction document and
other invalid papers, the competent State agency shall register the property
ownership right for the buyer in accordance with the provisions of law.
The auctioneer shall have to fill procedures for
the transfer of the property ownership right to the buyer. All costs of such
transfer shall be deducted from the money gained from the sale of the property.
Article 21.- Time limit
for the completion of procedures for the transfer of the property ownership
right
With regard to the property over which the
ownership right has been registered, the time limit for the completion of the
procedures for the transfer of the property ownership right shall be fifteen
days for a movable and thirty days for an immovable, counting from the date
when the auction document is made, unless otherwise agreed upon.
Article 22.- Time limit
for the payment of money to purchase the property
The time limit for the payment of the money to
purchase the property shall be agreed upon by the auctioneer and the buyer; in
case of no agreement, the buyer shall have to pay in full the money to the
auctioneer right after receiving the property.
Article 23.- Mode of
payment
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Article 24.- Place of
payment of the money to purchase the property
The place of payment of the money to purchase
the property shall be agreed upon by the auctioneer and the buyer of the
property; in case of no agreement, the place of payment shall be the head
office of the auctioneer.
Article 25.- Time limit
for delivery of the auctioned property
With regard to a property over which the
ownership right must not be registered, the auctioneer shall have to deliver
the property to the buyer after the auction document is made and the buyer has
already paid for the purchase of that property, unless otherwise agreed upon.
With regard to a property over which the
ownership right has been registered, the auctioneer shall have to deliver the
property to the buyer after the buyer has already paid for the purchase of that
property, unless otherwise agreed upon.
Article 26.- Place of
delivery of the auctioned property
The place of delivery of the auctioned property
shall be determined as follows:
1. The place where the immovable property is
auctioned.
2. The place of the auction of the immovable
property, unless otherwise agreed upon by the auctioneer and the property
buyer.
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1. The seller of the property shall have to pay
the fee for the auction.
2. In cases where the auctioned property is
sold, the fee shall be calculated as follows:
a/ If the sold property is valued one million
Dong (1,000,000) or less, the fee shall be fifty thousand (50,000) Dong.
b/ If it is from over one million (over
1,000,000) Dong up to one hundred million (100,000,000) Dong, the fee shall be
5% of the value of the sold property.
c/ If it is from over one hundred million (over
100,000,000) Dong up to one billion (1,000,000,000) Dong, the fee shall be 2%
of the value of the sold property.
d/ If it is over one billion (over
1,000,000,000) Dong, the fee shall be two million (20,000,000) Dong plus 0.2%
of the value of the part of the sold property that exceeds one billion Dong.
3. In cases where the auctioned property cannot
be sold, the fee shall represent 50% of the rate provided for in Item 2 of this
Article but shall not exceed thirty million (30,000,000) Dong.
Article 28.- Costs
The payment of auction costs shall be agreed
upon by the parties; if there is no agreement, the property seller shall bear
the cost of transportation of the property to the place already agreed upon,
the cost of public announcement if the auctioned property is a movable with a
reserve price of ten million Dong or less and the cost of property preservation
if such property is not delivered to the auctioneer; and the auctioneer shall
bear the cost of preservation of the delivered property, the cost of public
announcement of the auction of the property which is an immovable or movable
with a reserve price of more than ten million Dong and the cost of organizing
the auction and other related costs .
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The seller of property shall bear all risks
occurring to the auctioned property over which the ownership right must not be
registered till such property is delivered to the buyer and the buyer shall
bear all risks occurring to the property from the time of receiving such
property.
With regard to a property over which the
ownership right must be registered as prescribed by law, the seller shall bear
all risks till the completion of the registration procedures for the buyer, and
the buyer shall bear all risks from the time the registration procedures are
completed, even if he/she has not received the property yet.
Article 30.-
Responsibilities for the value and quality of the auctioned property
1. The seller of property and the auctioneer
shall not take responsibility for the value and quality of the auctioned
property, except in cases where they fail to provide all necessary information
related to the auctioned property for participants in the auction.
2. Within three days from the date of the
purchase of the property, the buyer shall be entitled to return the property to
the auctioneer and request compensation for any damage if the quality of the
auctioned property is not true to that already announced.
Article 31.- Settlement
of complaints and disputes
All complaints and disputes related to the
auction of property shall be settled in accordance with the provisions of law.