Chương I Nghị định 28/2013/NĐ-CP: Những quy định chung

Chapter 1.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1. Scope of regulation

This Decree details a number of articles of the Law on legal popularization and education regarding the Legal Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, socialization of legal popularization and education activities, conditions to assure legal popularization and education activities, and a number of measures to execute this Law.

Article 2. Responsibilities of the Ministry of Justice

The Ministry of Justice takes responsibility before the Government for performing the tasks prescribed in Clause 1 Article 6 and Clause 1 Article 25 of the Law on legal popularization and education, and has responsibility for executing the following tasks:

1. To promulgate provisions on professional operations, standards and professional rules involving legal popularization and education.

2. To urge and examine other ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government- attached agencies and People’s Committees at all levels in organizing the Legal Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

3. To coordinate with other ministries, sectors, localities and relevant organizations in implementing the policy on socialization of legal popularization and education activities.

4. To promulgate a set of criteria for assessing the efficiency of legal popularization and education activities.

5. To sum up, make statistics of and report on legal popularization and education activities nationwide to the Government.

6. To conduct preliminary and final reviews, and commend collectives and individuals that record outstanding achievements in organizing and performing the Legal Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and socializing legal popularization and education activities.

Article 3. Responsibilities of other ministries, ministerial-level agencies and governmental agencies

1. Other ministries, ministerial-level agencies and governmental agencies shall conduct tasks prescribed in Clause 1 Article 6 and Clause 1 Article 25 of the Law on legal popularization and education, and have responsibility for executing the following tasks:

a) To organize legal popularization and education activities under their functions and tasks, and guide of the Ministry of Justice;

b) To direct, urge and examine their attached agencies and units in organizing the Legal Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam;

c) To make statistics of and report on legal popularization and education activities to the Ministry of Justice;

d) To conducting preliminary and final reviews and commend collectives and individuals in their sectors and fields that record outstanding achievements in organizing the Legal Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and socializing legal popularization and education activities;

e) To provide funds, physical facilities and means for legal popularization and education activities.

2. Legal organizations under ministries, ministerial-level agencies and government- attached agencies shall advise their ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies or heads of governmental agencies in performing the tasks prescribed in Clause 1 of this Article.

Article 4. Responsibilities of People’s Committees at all levels

1. People’s Committees of provinces and centrally run cities (hereinafter referred to as the provincial People’s Committees) and People’s Committees of districts, towns or provincial cities (hereinafter referred to as district- level People’s Committees) shall perform tasks specified in Clause 1 Article 6 and Clause 2 Article 27 of the Law on legal popularization and education, and take responsibility for executing the following tasks:

a) To organize legal popularization and education activities under their management responsibility in localities and guide of the Ministry of Justice;

b) To urge and examine their attached professional agencies and lower-level People’s Committees in organizing the Legal Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in their localities;

c) To make statistics of and report on legal popularization and education activities;

d) To conduct preliminary and final reviews, and commend collectives and individuals that record outstanding achievements in organizing, implementing the Legal Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and socializing legal popularization and education activities in their localities;

e) To provide funds, physical facilities and means for legal popularization and education activities.

2. People’s Committees of communes, wards and townships shall perform tasks specified in Clause 1 Article 6 and Clause 2 Article 27 of the Law on legal popularization and education, and take the following responsibilities:

a) To organize implementation of legal popularization and education activities in their localities under guide of district-level People’s Committees;

b) To urge and examine agencies and organizations in their localities in organizing the Legal Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam;

c) To make statistics of, and report on legal popularization and education activities as directed by district-level People’s Committees;

d) To conduct preliminary and final reviews, and commend collectives and individuals that record outstanding achievements in organizing and performing the Legal Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and socializing legal popularization and education activities in their localities;

e) To provide funds, physical facilities and means for legal popularization and education activities.

3. Provincial Departments of Justice, district-level Divisions of Justice and justice-civil status officers shall advise People’s Committees of the same level in performing the tasks specified in Clause 1 and Clause 2 of this Article.