| THE GOVERNMENT ------- | THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence– Freedom – Happiness --------------- |
| No. 64/2012/ND-CP | Hanoi, September 04, 2012 |
DECREE
ON CONSTRUCTION PERMIT
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government dated December 25, 2001;
Pursuant to the Construction Law dated November 26, 2003;
Pursuant the Law No.38/2009/QH12, amending and supplementing a number of Articles of the Law relating to basic construction investment;
Pursuant to the Law on Urban Planning dated June 17, 2009;
At the request of the Minister of Construction;
The Government issues a Decree on the construction permit issue,
Chapter 1.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1. Scope of governing and subjects of application
1. Scope of governing
This Decree prescribes the conditions, order, procedures, and competence to grant construction permits; supervision of the construction under the construction permits; rights and responsibilities of organizations and individuals involved in construction permit issue and construction management under construction permits.
2. Application subjects
This Decree applies to the domestic and foreign organizations, individuals to be investors of construction works; organizations and individuals concerned in the grant of construction permits and supervision of the construction under construction permit in the territory of Vietnam. In case the international treaties which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has signed or acceded to contain otherwise provisions, then shall apply the provisions of the international treaties.
Article 2. Interpretation of terms
1. Construction Permit: means a legal document issued by the competent state agency for investor to build newly, repair, renovate, and relocate the works.
2. Work construction permit: means a permit issued for the construction of civil, industrial, transport, irrigation works, and infrastructure.
3. Individual housing construction permit: means a permit issued for the construction of individual houses in the urban or rural areas.
4. Temporary construction permit: means a permit issued for construction of works, individual houses used within a certain period by time limit to conduct construction planning.
5. Phased construction permit: means a permit issued for each part of the project or the work of the project as design for the construction of the whole work or the project which has not been done.
6. Construction permit for repair, renovation: means a permit issued for carrying out the repair, renovation of the existing building with architecture changes of the elevation, load-bearing structural change, and change of works and utilities scale.
