Decree No. 52/2012/ND-CP dated June 14, 2012 of the Government regulations on sanction of administrative violation in the area of fire prevention and fighting

THE GOVERNMENT -------	THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence– Freedom – Happiness ---------------
No: 52/2012/ND-CP	Ha Noi, June 14, 2012

DECREE

REGULATIONS ON SANCTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE VIOLATION IN THE AREA OF FIRE PREVENTION AND FIGHTING

Based on the Law on Government organization dated December 25, 2001;

Based on the Law on fire prevention and fighting dated June 29, 2001;

Pursuant to the Ordinance on Handling of Administrative Violations dated July 2, 2002 Ordinance amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Ordinance on Handling of Administrative Violations dated April 2, 2008;

At the proposal of the Minister of Public Security;

The Government issues the Decree stipulating the sanction of administrative violations in the area of fire prevention and fighting.

Chapter 1.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1. Scope of regulation

1. This Decree stipulates the acts of administrative violation, sanctioning principle, forms of sanction, fines, remedial measures, the sanctioning competence, order, procedures for sanction, complaints, denunciation and settlement of complaint and denunciation about the sanctioning of administrative violations in the area of fire prevention and fighting.

2. The acts of administrative violations in the area of fire prevention and fire fighting or in relation with the area of fire prevention and fighting not regulated in this Decree but having been regulated in other decrees of the Government on handling of administrative violations shall be sanctioned for administrative violations as regulated in those decrees.

Article 2. Subject of application

Individuals and organizations committing administrative violations in the area of fire prevention and fighting in the territory of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam shall be sanctioned under the provisions of this Decree and other provisions of the relevant law on sanction of administrative violations.

Article 3. Principle of sanction of administrative violations

The principle of sanction of administrative violations in the area of fire prevention and fighting shall comply with the provisions in the Article 3 of the Ordinance on Handling of Administrative Violations

Article 4. Form of sanction of administrative violations

1. For each administrative violation in the area of fire prevention and fighting prescribed in this Decree, the individuals, organizations violating shall be subject to one of the following forms of sanction:

a) Caution;

b) Fine.

2. Depending on the nature and seriousness of violations, the individuals and organizations with administrative violations in the area of fire prevention and fire fighting can be subject to one or more additional forms of sanction as follows:

a) Being deprived of the license use right and practice certificate;