THE GOVERNMENT
THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
No. 58/2014/ND-CP
Hanoi, June 16, 2014
 
DECREE
Defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Home Affairs [1]
 
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 36/2012/ND-CP of April 18, 2012, defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structures of ministries and ministerial-level agencies;
At the proposal of the Minister of Home Affairs,
The Government promulgates the Decree defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Article 1. Position and functions
The Ministry of Home Affairs is a governmental agency, functioning to perform the state management of the following sectors and fields: state administrative and non-business organizations; local administrations, administrative boundaries; cadres, civil servants, public employees; training and retraining in administration and state management; associations, non-governmental organizations; emulation and commendation; religion; state records and archives; the youth, and state management of public services in the fields under its management as provided by law.
Article 2. Tasks and powers
The Ministry of Home Affairs shall perform the tasks and exercise the powers prescribed in the Government’s Decree No. 36/2012/ND-CP of April 18, 2012, defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structures of ministries and ministerial-level agencies, and the following specific tasks and powers:
1. To submit to the Government bills and draft resolutions of the National Assembly, draft ordinances and resolutions of the National Assembly Standing Committees and draft resolutions and decrees of the Government under the Ministry’s approved annual legislative programs and plans as well as projects and schemes as assigned by the Government or the Prime Minister; development strategies, long-term, five-year and annual development master plans and plans, and important national projects and works in the sectors and fields under the Ministry of Home Affairs’ management.
2. To submit to the Prime Minister draft decisions, directives and other documents of the sectors and fields managed by the Ministry of Home Affairs or as assigned.
3. To promulgate circulars, decisions, directives and other documents within the scope of the Ministry’s state management; and to guide and examine the implementation of these documents.
4. To direct, guide, examine and organize the implementation of promulgated legal documents, development strategies, long-term, five-year and annual development master plans and plans and approved important national projects and works within the scope of the Ministry’s state management; to inform, propagate, disseminate and educate laws within the scope of the Ministry’s state management.
5. Regarding state administrative and non-business organizations:
a/ To submit to the Government schemes on the organizational structure of the Government according to the National Assembly’s terms; schemes and draft decrees of the Government on the establishment, merger, consolidation, division, separation and dissolution of ministries, ministerial-level agencies and government-attached agencies; draft decrees defining the organization of specialized agencies of People’s Committees; draft decrees prescribing the decentralization of organizational management of the state administrative and non-business apparatus;

b/ To appraise draft governmental decrees defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structures of ministries, ministerial-level agencies and government-attached agencies; to appraise schemes on the establishment, merger, dissolution and reorganization of general departments and the equivalents which are submitted to the Government by ministries or ministerial-level agencies; to appraise draft prime ministerial decisions defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structures of general departments and the equivalents under ministries or ministerial-level agencies; to appraise schemes and draft prime ministerial decisions on the establishment, merger, dissolution and reorganization of state administrative and non-business organizations as well as inter-sectoral consultancy or coordination organizations which are submitted to the Prime Minister by ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government-attached agencies or provincial-level People’s Committees;