Chương 7 Nghị định 32/2002/NĐ-CP: Điều khoản thi hành

Chapter VII

IMPLEMENTATION PROVISIONS

Article 23.- Responsibilities of the Committee for Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas

1. To assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Culture and Information in assisting the Government in directing, guiding and inspecting the implementation

2. To assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Culture and Information in organizing the compilation of books and popular documents on the basic contents of the 2000 Marriage and Family Law and the translation thereof into ethnic minority languages for dissemination and education of law to people of various ethnic minorities.

Article 24.- Responsibilities of the Ministry of Justice

1. To guide and direct the justice agencies at all levels to intensify activities of legal consultancy on marriage and family and to implement the provisions of this Decree.

2. To include the contents of dissemination and education of the 2000 Marriage and Family Law to ethnic minority people into the contents of activities of the Councils for coordination in law popularization and education at the central and local levels; to coordinate the direction and guidance of the activities of the Councils for coordination in law popularization and education at all levels.

Article 25.- Responsibilities of the Ministry of Culture and Information

1. To assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the Committee for Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas and the Ministry of Justice in working out and implementing plans and measures for disseminating and educating the 2000 Marriage and Family Law to ethnic minority people on the mass media, especially on the public-addressing networks of communes, villages or hamlets and at the meetings of village patriarchs, hamlet chiefs or religious dignitaries, in order to mobilize ethnic minority people to observe the provisions of law, get rid of backward customs and practices regarding marriage and family.

2. To direct local culture-information offices in building cultured villages, working out plans for dissemination and education of the marriage and family legislation to ethnic minority people.

3. To direct the mass media to draw up and implement special programs on propagation of the basic contents of this Decree; propagate the fine customs and practices on marriage and family of various ethnic groups, creating public opinions in mobilization for gradual eradication of backward customs and practices on marriage and family.

Article 26.- Responsibilities of the Finance Ministry

1. To guide the estimation of annual funding for the propagation, dissemination and education of the legislation on marriage and family to ethnic minority people.

2. To promulgate and guide the implementation of, the emolument and allowance regimes for officials directly carrying out the marriage registration and child adoption registration in deep-lying and remote areas, and effect the regime of emoluments for village patriarchs, hamlet chiefs, religious dignitaries, commune as well as mass organization officials, who participate in the dissemination and education of legislation on marriage and family to ethnic minority people.

Article 27.- Responsibilities of the People’s Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities

1. To direct the Committee for Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas, the provincial/municipal Justice Services and Culture-Information Services to assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the provincial/municipal Fatherland Front Committees as well as socio-political organizations in the localities in elaborating and submitting to the provincial/municipal People’s Councils for approval:

a) The list of fine customs and practices on marriage and family of various ethnic groups, which are encouraged for promotion in the localities.

b) The list of backward customs and practices on marriage and family of various ethnic groups, which should be done away with through mobilization.

2. To estimate and submit to the People’s Councils of the same level for approval the fundings for propagation, dissemination and education of the legislation on marriage and family to ethnic minority people and direct the People’s Committees of the same level to implement them.

3. To direct and guide the People’s Committees of all levels to organize the annual conferences of village patriarchs, hamlet chiefs and religious dignitaries to review, evaluate and draw experiences from, the work of propagation and education for the implementation of the legislation on marriage and family and the mobilization for eradication of backward customs and practices on marriage and family; to commend and reward those who record achievements and multiply good models in localities.

Article 28.- Implementation effect

1. This Decree takes implementation effect 15 days after its signing.

2. The ministers, the heads of the ministerial-level agencies, the heads of the agencies attached to the Government and the presidents of the People’s Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities shall have to implement this Decree.