Chương 2 Nghị định 16/2006/NĐ-CP về việc khôi phục danh dự, đền bù, trợ cấp cho cơ quan, tổ chức, cá nhân bị thiệt hại do tham gia bảo vệ an ninh quốc gia: Khôi phục danh dự

Chapter II

HONOR RESTORATION

Article 6.- Forms of honor restoration

1. The honor restoration shall be carried out for honor damage sufferers.

2. The public correction or apology shall be made through announcement on central or local mass media for two consecutive issues, for papers, or two consecutive times, for audio or visual media.

3. The secret correction or apology shall be notified to honor damage sufferers, heads of concerned agencies, organizations or local administrations and directly to competent leaders of the agencies or organizations or individuals, whose honor is restored.

Article 7.- Competence to decide on and procedures for settlement of honor restoration

1. Specialized national security protection agencies at all levels shall have to consider and decide on the honor restoration for honor damage sufferers under their respective management. Where the honor damage sufferers are not under their management, they shall consider and propose competent bodies to consider and decide thereon.

2. People's Committees of urban districts, rural districts, provincial capitals or towns (hereinafter referred to collectively as district-level People's Committees) shall have to consider and decide on the honor restoration for honor damage sufferers residing in their respective localities at the proposals of specialized national security protection agencies (for cases where honor damage sufferers are not managed by specialized national security protection agencies).

3. The honor damage sufferers shall have the right to personally request or send their written applications to concerned specialized national security protection agencies in the localities where they reside to request the honor restoration. The requests should clearly present the case contents, be enclosed with papers, documents and/or evidence (if any) for use as grounds for consideration and settlement. In case of necessity to supplement documents used as grounds for consideration and decisions on honor restoration, the request-receiving agencies shall guide the honor damage sufferers to gather, supply, supplement documents or gather, supplement documents by themselves.

4. Within 15 days after receiving requests or applications of subjects suffering honor damage due to participation in national security protection, specialized national security protection agencies shall have to settle them as follows:

a/ Deciding on the honor restoration for honor damage sufferers under their respective management;

b/ Transferring requests or applications and relevant documents (if any) to specialized national security protection agencies which manage the honor damage sufferers, for consideration and decision on the honor restoration;

c/ Considering, concluding on, and proposing district-level People's Committees of the localities where the honor damage sufferers reside to consider and decide on the honor restoration (in cases where honor damage sufferers are not under their respective management).

5. Specialized national security protection agencies which have received the requests or applications shall have to notify the honor restoration requesters of the handling thereof according to provisions of Points a, b and c, Clause 4 of this Article. If deeming that there are not enough grounds to restore honor for honor damage sufferers, they must notify them in writing the reasons therefor.