Chương 9 Luật hợp tác xã 1996: Khen thưởng, xử lý vi phạm

Chapter IX

COMMENDATION AND HANDLING OF VIOLATIONS

Article 53.- Commendation

The following organizations and individuals shall be commended in accordance with law:

1. The cooperatives and Unions of cooperatives which operate efficiently and contribute notably to the socio-economic development of the localities.

2. The organizations, individuals and cooperative members that have recorded outstanding achievements in labor, production, business and development of the cooperatives.

Article 54.- Handling of violation

1. The persons who violate the Law on Cooperatives, the Model Statute and the Statute of the cooperative shall, depending on the nature and seriousness of the violation, be censured, warned, dismissed, expelled from the cooperative or be subject to administrative sanctions or examined for penal liability; they have to make compensation for the damage caused by them, if any.

2. An organization or individual that misuses the name of the cooperative to operate, a cooperative which operates without business license or contrarily to the registered branches or trades shall be forced to terminate their operations and dealt with according to law.

3. The persons who commit fraudulent acts in registering business, or take advantage of their positions and powers to award business licenses contrarily to the provisions of this Law; deliberately refuse to award business licenses to the organizations which are qualified to become cooperatives shall, depending on the nature and the seriousness of the violation, be subject to administrative sanctions, disciplinary measures or examined for penal liability.