Chương I Nghị định 52/2015/NĐ-CP về Cơ sở dữ liệu quốc gia về pháp luật: Những quy định chung

Chapter I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1. Scope of regulation

This Decree provides the building, management, maintenance, updating, exploitation and use of the national law database; responsibilities of ministries, ministerial-level agencies and other central state agencies (including the Supreme People’s Court, the Supreme People’s Procuracy and the State Audit Office of Vietnam), and People’s Committees of provinces and centrally run cities (below referred to as provincial-level People’s Committees) in the building, management, maintenance, updating, exploitation and use of the national law database.

Article 2. National law database

1. The national law database is a collection of legal documents and documents consolidating legal documents (below collectively referred to as documents) in the form of e-document, which is placed under the unified management by the Government and consists of component databases: database of central legal documents and database of local legal documents.

2. The national law database shall be uniformly built and commonly used nationwide in order to provide documents in an accurate and prompt manner to meet the demand for state management and serve law dissemination, research, application and enforcement activities of agencies, organizations and individuals.

Article 3. Information on documents in the national law database

1. Documents in the national law database:

a/ Legal documents promulgated by central state agencies on their own or in coordination with one another and legal documents promulgated by provincial-level People’s Councils and People’s Committees in accordance with the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents;

b/ Documents consolidating legal documents (below referred to as consolidated documents).

2. Basic information on a legal document:

a/ The number, code, subject, content and type of the document, promulgating agency, full name and title of the person signing the document for promulgation, promulgation date, effective date and effective status of the document;

b/ Relevant documents, including documents serving as legal grounds for the promulgation of the document and documents referred to in the document;

c/ The process of change of the effect of the document;

d/ Other necessary information (if any).

3. Basic information on a consolidated document:

a/ The number, code, subject, content and type of the document, agency conducting the consolidation, full name and title of the person signing the document for authentication and authentication date;

b/ The amended document and amending document(s);

c/ Other necessary information (if any).

Article 4. Use of documents in the national law database

Documents in the national law database shall be officially used in state management and law dissemination, research, application and enforcement activities of agencies, organizations and individuals.

Article 5. Funds for building, management and maintenance of, and updating of documents to, the national law database

1. Funds for building the national law database shall be allocated from the state budget and other lawful sources in accordance with law.

2. Funds for management and maintenance of, and updating of documents to, the national law database by ministries, ministerial-level agencies, other central state agencies and local state agencies and units shall be allocated from the state budget according to decentralization.

Article 6. Prohibited acts

1. Sabotaging the information infrastructure system or obstructing the operation, stability and constancy of the national law database.

2. Illegally accessing the national law database to falsify, modify, delete or destroy data.