Chapter I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1. Scope of regulation
This Decree provides the competence, order and procedures for consular certification and legalization, contents of state management and responsibilities of agencies, organizations and individuals for consular certification and legalization.
Article 2. Interpretation of terms
In this Decree, the terms below are construed as follows:
1. Consular certification means the competent Vietnamese agencies' certification of stamps, signatures and titles on Vietnam's papers and documents for being recognized and used abroad.
2. Consular legalization means the competent Vietnamese agencies' certification of stamps, signatures and titles on foreign papers and documents for being recognized and used in Vietnam.
Article 3. Contents of consular certification and legalization
Consular certification and legalization is simply certification of stamps, signatures and titles on papers and documents, not covering certification of contents and forms of papers and documents.
Article 4. Requirement of consular certification and legalization
1. To be recognized and used abroad, papers and documents of Vietnam must be consularly certified, except the cases specified in Article 9 of this Decree.
2. To be recognized and used in Vietnam, papers and documents of foreign countries must be consularly legalized, except the cases specified in Article 9 of this Decree.
Article 5. Vietnamese agencies competent to carry out consular certification and legalization
1. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is competent to carry out consular certification and legalization.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs may authorize foreign affairs agencies of provinces and centrally run cities to receive dossiers of request for consular certification or legalization.
2. Overseas Vietnamese diplomatic missions, consulates or other agencies authorized to perform the consular function (below referred to as representative missions) are competent to carry out consular certification and legalization overseas.
Article 6. Requesters for consular certification and legalization
1. Agencies, organizations and individuals may request consular certification or legalization of their own papers and documents or others' without authorization paper.
2. Agencies, organizations and individuals shall submit dossiers to competent consular certification and legalization agencies directly or through authorized foreign affairs agencies under Clause 1, Article 5 of this Decree or by post.
Article 7. Languages and places of consular certification and legalization
1. The languages used for consular certification and legalization are Vietnamese and the official language of the country where the papers concerned are used, or English or French.
2. Places of consular certification and legalization are head offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and overseas Vietnamese representative missions.
Article 8. Consular certification and legalization expenses
1. Requesters for consular certification or legalization shall pay a fee.
2. The rates and regime of collection, payment, management and use of such fee comply with the guidance of the Ministry of Finance.
3. In case of sending dossiers by post, requesters for consular certification or legalization shall pay postal charges for both sending and receipt.
Article 9. Papers and documents exempted from consular certification and legalization
1. Papers and documents exempted from consular certification and legalization under treaties to which Vietnam and foreign countries concerned are contracting parties, or on the reciprocity principle.
2. Papers and documents delivered directly or via diplomatic channel between competent Vietnamese and foreign agencies.
3. Papers and documents exempted from consular certification and legalization under Vietnamese laws.
4. Papers and documents not required of consular certification and legalization by receiving Vietnamese or foreign agencies under relevant Vietnamese or foreign laws.
Article 10. Papers and documents prohibited from consular certification and legalization
1. Papers and documents containing modifications or erasures without proper correction as required by law.
2. Papers and documents in dossiers of request for consular certification or legalization containing contradictory details.
3. Forged or unduly issued or certified papers and documents according to law.
4. Papers and documents bearing non-original signatures or stamps.
5. Papers and documents with contents infringing upon the interests of the Vietnamese state.
Tìm kiếm
Nghị định 111/2011/NĐ-CP về chứng nhận, hợp pháp hóa lãnh sự (Bản Word)
