| THE GOVERNMENT No. 24/2014/ND-CP | THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence - Freedom – Happiness Hanoi, April 4, 2014 |
DECREE
Providing the organization of specialized agencies under People’s Committees of provinces or centrally run cities [1]
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the November 26, 2003 Law on Organization of People’s Councils and People’s Committees;
At the proposal of the Minister of Home Affairs,
The Government promulgates the Decree providing the organization of specialized agencies under People’s Committees of provinces or centrally run cities.
Chapter I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1. Scope of regulation and subjects of application
1. This Decree provides the organization of specialized agencies under People’s Committees of provinces or centrally run cities (below collectively referred to as provincial-level People’s Committees).
2. This Decree applies to specialized agencies under provincial-level People’s Committees, including departments and departmental-level agencies (below collectively referred to as provincial-level departments).
3. This Decree does not apply to:
a/ Management boards of industrial parks, hi-tech parks or economic zones and otherwise-named management boards under provincial-level People’s Committees;
b/ Offices of provincial-level Delegations of National Assembly deputies and People’s Councils; public non-business units under provincial-level People’s Committees and locally based subordinate organizations of central agencies.
Article 2. Organization principles
1. Ensuring the full performance of state management functions and tasks of provincial-level People’s Committees and the uniformity, continuity and management of sectors or working fields from central to grassroots level.
2. Ensuring streamlining, rationality, effect and efficiency, organizing multi-sectoral and multi-field management departments; it is not necessary to organize at the provincial level all organizations corresponding to ministries and ministerial-level agencies at the central level.
3. Ensuring suitability with natural conditions, population size and socio-economic conditions of each locality and satisfaction of state administrative reform requirements.
4. Ensuring no overlapping functions, tasks and powers with locally based organizations under ministries or ministerial-level agencies.
Article 3. Position and functions of provincial-level departments
Provincial-level departments are agencies under provincial-level People’s Committees and shall perform the functions of advising and assisting provincial-level People’s Committees in the state management of sectors and fields in localities as prescribed by law and as assigned or authorized by provincial-level People’s Committees or chairpersons of provincial-level People’s Committees.
