Chapter 5
TRAINING AND IMPROVING IN ARCHIVAL OPERATIONS, ARCHIVAL SERVICES
Article 35. Training and improving in archival operations
1. Organizations eligible in accordance with law may supply training and improving in archival operations.
2. The Ministry of Home Affairs shall provide programs and contents of archival operation improving; and coordinate with the Ministry of Education and Training in providing the framework training program on archival operations.
Article 36. Archival services
1. An organization may provide archival services when it satisfies fully conditions as follows:
a/ It has registered its institutional archival service provision with a provincial archives state management agency;
b/ It has suitable physical foundations and human resources for archival service provision;
c/ Its staff providing archival services must possess an archival practice certificate.
2. A person may independently provide archival services when he/she satisfies fully conditions as follows:
a/ Possessing an archival practice certificate;
b/ Possessing suitable physical foundations for archival service provision;
c/ Having registered his/her archival service provision with a provincial archives state management agency.
3. Archival services include:
a/ Preservation, correction, improvement, disinfection, deacidification, mold removal and digitalization of archival materials outside the list of state secrets;
b/ Research, counseling and application of archival science and technology transfer.
Article 37. Archival practice certificates
1. A person may obtain an archival practice certificate when he/she satisfies fully conditions as follows:
a/ Being a Vietnamese citizen with full civil act capacity;
b/ Personal record is clear;
c/ Possessing a relevant professional diploma in archives;
d/ Having directly engaged in archival work or archives-related work for at least 05 years;
e/ Having passed the professional exam held by a competent authority.
2. Cases being refused for grant of an archival practice certificate include:
a/ Persons being currently examined for penal liability;
b/ Persons currently serving prison sentences or being administratively handled through sending to a health establishment or education establishment;
c/ Persons having been convicted of one of national security-related crimes; or the crime of intentional disclosure of work secrets, crimes of appropriation, trading in, or disposal of materials of work secrets.
3. If a person who having granted an archival practice certificate falls into one of the cases specified in clause 2 of this Article, he/she shall be revoked his/her archival practice certificate.
4. The Government shall provide the competence and procedures to grant and revoke archival practice certificates.