THE GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No: 52/2001/ND-CP
Hanoi, August 23, 2001
 
DECREE
GUIDING THE EXECUTION OF JUDICIAL MEASURE OF SENDING TO REFORMATORY SCHOOLS
THE GOVERNMENT
Pursuant to the September 30, 1992 Law on Organization of the Government;
In order to execute the judicial measures of sending to reformatory schools as provided for in Article 70 of the 1999 Penal Code and Articles 277 and 279 of the June 9, 2000 Criminal Procedures Code;
At the proposals of the Minister of Public Security and the Minister of Justice,
DECREES:
Chapter I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1.-
1. The judicial measure of sending juvenile offenders to reformatory schools (hereinafter called reformatory measure for short) prescribed in the Penal Code is a measure decided by courts and applicable to juvenile offenders aged between full 14 are under 18 years, if deeming it unnecessary to impose penalties on them but necessary to send them to reformatory schools due to the nature of their violations, their personal records and living environment.
2. Persons sent to reformatory schools must be subject to the supervision, management and education by the schools, and must study, temper themselves, labor and live under the management and guidance of reformatories officials and teachers. Those who are serving reformatory measure are called reformatory school pupils (hereinafter called pupils for short).
3. The reformatory measure- serving duration lasts for one to two years calculating from the date the persons subject to reformatory measures are admitted into the reformatory schools.
Article 2.-
1. Places where the reformatory measure is executed are the reformatory schools organized under the law provisions on handling administrative violations.
2. The reformatory schools are tasked to manage, provide moral, law and general education, job training as well as vocational guidance and organize labor for pupils, suitable to their age groups in order to help them study, temper themselves and healthily develop physically, morally and intellectually to become honest persons useful to the society and capable of integrating themselves into communities after completely serving the reformatory measure.
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