Vietnam: If the vehicle owner fails to carry out procedures for revocation within 30 days when transferring a vehicle, will it/he/she be responsible to the law for violations related to that vehicle?
- What are the responsibilities of vehicle registration officers and authorities in Vietnam?
- Vietnam: If the vehicle owner fails to carry out procedures for revocation within 30 days when transferring a vehicle, will it/he/she be responsible to the law for violations related to that vehicle?
- How long does it take to process vehicle registration in Vietnam?
What are the responsibilities of vehicle registration officers and authorities in Vietnam?
Article 5 of Circular 24/2023/TT-BCA stipulates the responsibilities of vehicle registration officers and authorities as follows:
- Receive, inspect applications for vehicle registration, conduct physical inspection of vehicles, take pencil prints of engine number and chassis number and digitize vehicle applications on the vehicle registration and management system.
- Receive and process applications for vehicle registration in case where vehicle applications and electronic data on vehicle applications meet regulations of the law. Provide clear and detailed guidelines, fill these guidelines in application guideline note and take responsibility for such guidelines in case where submitted applications fail to follow the required procedures.
- During the process of vehicle registration, officers shall strictly comply with regulations of the People's Public Security and have right attitudes and respect people. Comply with regulations in this Circular and other regulations of laws related to vehicle registration. Strictly prohibit additional regulations on vehicle registration procedures in contradictory with this Circular.
Vietnam: If the vehicle owner fails to carry out procedures for revocation within 30 days when transferring a vehicle, will it/he/she be responsible to the law for violations related to that vehicle?
According to the provisions of Clause 4, Article 6 of Circular 24/2023/TT-BCA regulating the responsibilities of vehicle owners.
Responsibilities of vehicle owners
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4. When selling, donating, exchanging, inheriting, contributing capital, or transferring a vehicle (hereinafter referred to as “vehicle title transfer):
a) The vehicle owner shall retain the vehicle registration certificate and license plate (not transfer the registration certificate and license plate to the transferee) and submit them to the vehicle registration authority for revocation procedures; in case of vehicle title transfer together with the license plate purchased at auction, the vehicle owner shall submit the registration certificate to the vehicle registration authority for revocation procedures;
b) Within 30 days from the date of carrying out procedures for vehicle title transfer, the vehicle owner shall carry out procedures for revocation; within the aforesaid duration, if the vehicle owner fails to carry out procedures for revocation or transfer the vehicle registration certificate and license plate to the transferee to carry out revocation procedures, before processing the procedures, the vehicle registration authority shall issue a decision to impose administrative penalties on the vehicle owner.
After vehicle title transfer, if the vehicle owner fails to carry out procedures for revocation, it/he/she shall be responsible to the law for violations related to that vehicle;
c) After the vehicle owner completes revocation procedures, the transferee shall carry out procedures for registration of title transfer according to regulations.
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Thus, according to the above regulations, within 30 days from the date of making documents to transfer vehicle ownership, the vehicle owner must carry out recovery procedures; If past the above time limit the vehicle owner does not carry out recovery procedures or hand over the vehicle registration certificate and vehicle license plate to the organization or individual receiving vehicle ownership transfer to carry out recovery procedures, before handling the matter, the agency will Vehicle registration issues a decision to impose penalties on vehicle owners for not carrying out recovery procedures according to regulations.
In case the vehicle owner does not carry out recovery procedures after transferring vehicle ownership, he or she must be responsible before the law for violations related to that vehicle.
Vietnam: If the vehicle owner fails to carry out procedures for revocation within 30 days when transferring a vehicle, will it/he/she be responsible to the law for violations related to that vehicle?
How long does it take to process vehicle registration in Vietnam?
Article 7 of Circular 24/2023/TT-BCA stipulates the duration for vehicle registration as follows:
- Issuance of vehicle registration certificate: within 02 working days from the date of receipt of the satisfactory application, except for the case of re-issuance of the vehicle registration certificate, verification shall be carried out as prescribed in Clause 2 of Article 7 of Circular 24/2023/TT-BCA.
- The duration for verification of the loss of the vehicle registration certificate when the procedure for re-issuance of the vehicle registration certificate is processed is 30 days; the duration for verification shall not be included in the duration for re-issuance of the vehicle registration certificate as prescribed in Clause 1 of Article 7 of Circular 24/2023/TT-BCA.
- Initial issuance of identification license plate: the identification license plate shall be issued after receipt of the valid application for vehicle registration.
- The duration for replacement of license plate, re-issuance of license plate, issuance of license plate purchased at auction or re-issuance of identification license plate is 07 working days from the date of receipt of the satisfactory application.
- Temporary vehicle registration, issuance of certificate of revocation of license plate and vehicle registration
+ In case of wholly online public service in the public service portal: After the declarant completes the temporary vehicle registration form or the application form for revocation of registration and license plate; pay fees according to regulations (in case of temporary vehicle registration), the vehicle registration authority shall check the application. If the application is satisfactory, the vehicle registration authority shall return results of administrative procedure settlement within 08 working hours from the time of receipt of the application from the public service portal;
+ In case of partially online public service: 01 working day (in case of temporary vehicle registration); within 2 working days from the date of receipt of the satisfactory application (in case of issuance of certificate of revocation of license plate and vehicle registration).
- The duration for returning vehicle registration results as prescribed in Clauses 1, 3, 4, and 5 of Article 7 of Circular 24/2023/TT-BCA is counted from the date on which the satisfactory application is received and the vehicle registration and management system has received the result of verification of the completion of the vehicle registration fee payment from the public service portal.
Circular 24/2023/TT-BCA will take effect from August 15, 2023
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