Chương 7 Nghị định 68/2002/NĐ-CP: Khiếu nại, tố cáo và xử lý vi phạm

Chapter VII

COMPLAINTS, DENUNCIATIONS AND HANDLING OF VIOLATIONS

Article 77.- Complaints, denunciations

1. Organizations and individuals shall have the right to complain about administrative decisions and/or administrative acts of competent State agencies, officials and employees in the implementation of this Decree.

2. Individuals shall have the right to denounce to competent agencies, organizations or individuals acts of violating the provisions of this Decree.

3. The competence, order and procedures for settling complaints and denunciations shall comply with the provisions of legislation on complaints and denunciations.

Article 78.- Handling of violations

1. Those who commit falsity in dossier declarations, counterfeit papers to apply for marriage, father, mother or child recognition or child adoption, which involve foreign elements; take advantage of the marriage, father, mother or child recognition as well as child adoption, which involve foreign elements, to seek profits, traffic in, sexually abuse and/or exploit the labor of, women and children; conduct brokerage activities in marriage, father, mother or child recognition and/or child adoption, which involve foreign elements, against law, or commit other acts of violating the legislation on marriage and family involving foreign elements shall, depending on the nature and seriousness of their violations, be administratively sanctioned or examined for penal liability; if causing damage, they must pay compensations therefor according to law provisions.

2. The Marriage Support Centers and foreign child adoption offices in Vietnam, which commit acts of taking advantage of the marriage support and/or child adoption, which involve foreign elements, to seek profits, traffic in, sexually abuse and/or exploit the labor of, women and children; conduct marriage support activities in contravention of the provisions in their operation licenses, child adoption support activities in contravention of the provisions in the permits for setting up the foreign child adoption offices, or commit other acts of violating the provisions of this Decree or other relevant law provisions shall, depending on the nature and seriousness of their violations, be administratively sanctioned in forms of caution, fine, or can be deprived of the right to use permits; if causing damage, they must pay compensations therefor according to law provisions.

3. Those who abuse their positions and powers and commit acts of violating the provisions of this Decree as well as other relevant law provisions in settling the registration of marriage, father, mother or child recognition and/or child adoption, which involve foreign elements, shall, depending on the nature and seriousness of their violations, be disciplined or examined for penal liability; if causing damage, they must pay compensations therefor according to law provisions.