Chương 1 Nghị định 14/2001/NĐ-CP: Những quy định chung

Chapter I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1.-

1. This Decree stipulates the State management over the security service business in the following domains:

a/ Human protection;

b/ Property and goods protection;

c/ Manufacture and repair of special technical means and equipment used exclusively for security services.

2. The targets and objects on the State-prescribed list to be safeguarded and protected by the peoples army and the peoples police forces and the objects prescribed by law to be protected by the security forces of agencies and enterprises shall not fall under the scope of regulation of this Decree.

Article 2.-

1. Only enterprises that are established and have registered for business activities according to the provisions of this Decree and other relevant law provisions may conduct the security service business.

2. The following organizations and individuals shall not be allowed to establish and manage the security service business enterprises:

a/ Organizations and individuals that are banned from establishing and managing enterprises under the Enterprise Law and other legal documents;

b/ Those who are being subject to other administrative handling measures, are serving non-custodial reform, are being subject to residence ban or probation, or are banned by the court from conducting the security service business;

c/ Those who possess previous criminal records of intentional crimes or had been subject to other administrative handling measures but have not yet been, according to law provisions, regarded as not yet having been handled for administrative violations;

d/ Foreign organizations and individuals, overseas Vietnamese, foreign-invested enterprises or enterprises owned by overseas Vietnamese.

3. The following organizations and individuals shall not be allowed to directly provide security services:

a/ Organizations and individuals specified in Clause 2 of this Article;

b/ Foreign organizations and individuals, overseas Vietnamese, foreign-invested enterprises or enterprises of overseas Vietnamese, except for a number of activities of manufacturing and repairing special technical means and equipment exclusively used for security services specified at Point c, Clause 1, Article 1 of this Decree.

Article 3.- All organizations and individuals engaged in the security service business shall have to strictly observe the provisions of this Decree and other relevant law provisions; submit to the guidance, inspection and violation-handling by the competent State bodies.

Article 4.- It is strictly forbidden to establish enterprises for conducting secret investigation, armed security activities or acts of taking advantage of the security service business to infringe upon the States interests, legitimate rights and interests of organizations and individuals.

All acts of violating the provisions of this Decree and other relevant law provisions on the organization and operation of the security service business must be detected in time and strictly handled according to law provisions.