Chapter I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1. Governing scope
This Circular provides for the issuance, replacement and revocation of license plate and vehicle registration for road motor vehicles, as stipulated by the Law on Road Traffic, including automobiles; tractors; trailers or semi-trailers towed by vehicles or tractors; two-wheeled, three-wheeled motorcycles with cylinder capacity of over 50cc (hereinafter referred to as motorcycles); motorcycles with cylinder capacity of 50cc and below (hereinafter referred to as small motorcycles, including electric bikes) and other vehicles built with similar specifications; dedicated vehicles used by the Police for the security purpose (hereinafter referred to as vehicle registration).
Article 2. Applicable subjects
1. This Circular shall be applied to:
a) Traffic police officers and non-commissioned officers (hereinafter referred to as the officer) in charge of the vehicle registration.
b) Police officers serving in competent units and local departments.
c) Domestic bureaus, organizations and individuals; foreign organizations and individuals with legitimate head office or residence within the territory of Socialist Republic of Vietnam, who are involved in the vehicle registration.
2. This Circular shall not be applied to the registration of military motor vehicles used for the purpose of national defense.
Article 3. Vehicle registration authority (also known as the competent registry)
1. Department of Roadway – Railway Traffic Police shall register and issue the license plate for vehicles of Ministry of Public Security, and automobiles of diplomatic missions and representative offices of international organizations and foreign nationals working for these ones; automobiles owned by agencies and organizations as stipulated at the Appendix No.01 of this Circular.
2. Division of Traffic Police, Division of Roadway – Railway Traffic Police directly managed by the Department of Public Security throughout provinces and centrally-affiliated cities (hereinafter referred to as Traffic Police Division), shall register and issue the license plate for the following types of vehicle (exclusive of those owned by agencies, organizations and individuals as regulated at Clause 1 of this Article):
a) Automobiles, tractors, trailers and semi-trailers; motorcycles built with a cylinder capacity of over 175 cm3 or those confiscated by competent authorities, and certain vehicles built with the similar specifications to the aforesaid, owned by domestic and foreign agencies, organizations and individuals, including purpose-built vehicles used in the business activities of the Military, all of which establish their head office or residence in the local areas where these vehicles are registered.
b) Motorcycles, small motorcycles, electric vehicles and others built with the similar specification to the aforementioned, owned by foreign agencies, organizations and individuals, or used at projects, foreign joint-venture economic institutions at the local areas where these vehicles are registered, and those owned by organizations and individuals who establish their head offices and residence in districts, towns and provincial municipalities where Traffic Police Division is located.
3. The Police of a district, town and provincial municipality (hereinafter referred to as the Police of a district) shall be eligible to grant the registration and issue the license plate for motorcycles, small motorcycles, electric vehicles and others built with the similar specification to the aforementioned, owned by domestic agencies, organizations and individuals who establish their head offices and residence where their vehicles are registered (regardless of vehicles of agencies, organizations and individuals as stipulated at Clause 1 and 2 of this Article).
4. Where applicable and due to the practical conditions at border districts, remote and isolated areas or other local areas facing with the material hardship, the Director of Department of Public Security in a province and centrally-affiliated city, after sending a report to and receiving a consent in writing from Director of General Department of Administrative Police for Social Order and Safety, shall be eligible to authorize the Traffic Police Division to register and grant the license plate in group to ensure convenience for those who have the demands for the vehicle registration.
Article 4. Time limit for the issuance of license plate and vehicle registration
1. The license plate shall be issued immediately after required documents have been fully submitted.
2. The issuance and replacement of vehicle registration certificate; the issuance of title transfer and vehicle relocation; the issuance of the certificate of revoked license plate and vehicle registration, shall not exceed 2 working days as from the date of fully submitting legal documents.
Where the certificate of vehicle registration has been lost and needs to be reissued, the verification and completion of procedures shall not exceed 30 days as from the date of fully receiving legal documents.
3. The reissuance and replacement of the license plate immediately after legal documents have been entirely submitted; in case of waiting for license plate manufacturer, time for the reissuance and replacement of license plate shall not exceed 7 working days as from the date of fully receiving legal documents.
4. In case of the temporary registration, issuing the temporary certificate of license plate and vehicle registration shall be completed within a day.
Article 5. Responsibilities held by competent authorities and public servants in charge of the vehicle registration
1. Comply with legal regulations of this Circular and other relevant laws pertaining to the vehicle registration. Strictly prohibit any other regulations on the vehicle registration in breach of the regulations of this Circular.
2. Public servants in charge of the vehicle registration, on receipt of vehicle registration documents, must check and compare it with current vehicle condition. If required documents are complete and adhere to legal regulations, they must accept and carry out the vehicle registration.
Where submitted documents fail to ensure the required procedures as stipulated by laws, they must provide registrants with sufficient and thorough instructions (clearly write these instructions on the back of vehicle registration declaration) and assume their full responsibility for such instructions.
Article 6. Responsibility held by legal vehicle owners
1. Strictly abide by laws and regulations on the vehicle registration; Hold vehicle documents in accordance with legal regulations and assume their responsibility for the legitimate status of their vehicles as well as their vehicle registration documents in compliance with laws; Have their vehicles inspected at vehicle registration authorities and pay fees for the registration and issuance of license plate according to legal regulations.
Where legal owners keep a partial documentation of vehicle registration issued by the former vehicle registry, upon completing the required procedures to issue and replace the certificate of license plate, vehicle registration, title transfer and vehicle relocation as well as revoke the certificate of license plate and vehicle registration, this part of documentation must be submitted.
2. Immediately when the decision on transferring and using a vehicle as a gift, send a written notice by filling in form 01 attached to this Circular to the registry where the certificate of vehicle registration has been issued for any further inspection. Where there is no written notice to be given, continue to take their full legal responsibility for that vehicle until any organization or individual as a receiver of that vehicle completes the procedures for the registration of title transfer and vehicle relocation.
3. Within a period of 30 days as from the date of documenting the vehicle ownership transfer, an organization and individual as a receiver of that vehicle must have their vehicle registered at the vehicle registry to complete the procedures for title transfer and vehicle relocation.
4. To strictly prohibit tampering with required documents as well as any attempt in scratching and erasing engine and chassis number for the purpose of obtaining the vehicle registration.
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