Who are Vietnamese border inhabitants under the Decree 34/2014/ND-CP? What are prohibited acts for border inhabitants?
- Who are Vietnamese border inhabitants under the Decree 34/2014/ND-CP?
- What are prohibited acts for Vietnamese border inhabitants in land border areas?
- Who are allowed or not allowed to reside in land border areas of Vietnam?
- What are the regulations on activities of people and vehicles in land border areas of Vietnam?
Who are Vietnamese border inhabitants under the Decree 34/2014/ND-CP?
Pursuant to Decree 34/2014/ND-CP on land border areas of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Pursuant to Clause 5, Article 3 of Decree 34/2014/ND-CP, border inhabitant is as follows:
Border inhabitant means a person who has the permanent residence registration in a land border area.
Thus, according to the above regulations, border inhabitant means a person who has the permanent residence registration in a land border area..
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What are prohibited acts for Vietnamese border inhabitants in land border areas?
Pursuant to Article 4 of Decree 34/2014/ND-CP, there are 09 prohibited acts in land border areas.
As follows:
Prohibited acts in land border areas
1. Damaging, destroying, moving, or causing loss of, landmarks or signs to identify the borderline; “border area”, “border belt” and “restricted zone” signboards; and border works.
2. Changing the natural flow, exhausting water sources of, causing inundation, flooding or environmental pollution in, border rivers and streams.
3. Illegally inhabiting, exploiting forest products, exploring and exploiting minerals and aquatic resources.
4. Traveling across the border for field or terrace field farming, hunting or cattle grazing.
5. Burying corpses, removing graves; transporting corpses, remains, animals, plants and animal carcasses across the border without permission of competent Vietnamese state agencies.
6. Making gunshots across the border, causing explosions, cutting and burning trees for land reclamation in the border belt.
7. Shooting films, taking photos, recording sounds, surveying or drawing landscapes at places where ban signs are displayed in land border areas.
8. Smuggling, illegally transporting goods across the border, committing trade frauds.
9. Other prohibited acts prescribed by Vietnamese law and agreements on border regulations signed by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam with bordering countries.
Thus, in land border areas, Vietnamese border inhabitants are not allowed to carry out the above prohibited acts.
Who are allowed or not allowed to reside in land border areas of Vietnam?
Pursuant to the provisions of Article 5 of Decree 34/2014/ND-CP, persons allowed to reside in land border areas:
- Border inhabitants;
- Persons who have permits of competent public security agencies for residence in land border areas;
- Officers, professional army men, defense officials, defense workers and employees, non-commissioned officers, soldiers of the People’s Army; officers, workers, employees and professional and technical non-commissioned officers of the People’s Public Security Force whose units are stationed in land border areas.
Regarding persons not allowed to reside in land border areas, Clause 2, Article 5 of Decree 34/2014/ND-CP determines as follows:
- Persons banned from residing in land border areas under decisions of competent agencies, persons not yet permitted to exit or persons suspended from exit;
- Persons banned from traveling outside their places of residence by procedure- conducting agencies;
- Persons sentenced to imprisonment, against whom judgment execution decisions are not yet issued, serving suspended sentences; or permitted to postpone or suspend the serving of imprisonment sentences; persons under probation;
- Persons subject to the measure of education in communes, wards or townships; consignment into reformatories, compulsory education establishments or compulsory detoxification establishments but permitted to postpone the execution of such measure or against whom enforcement of such measure is suspended.
- Persons who are not eligible to reside in land border areas.
The provisions of Points a, b, c and d of Clause 2, Article 5 of Decree 34/2014/ND-CP are not applicable to border inhabitants.
What are the regulations on activities of people and vehicles in land border areas of Vietnam?
Pursuant to Article 7 of Decree 34/2014/ND-CP, activities of people and vehicles in land border areas are regulated as follows:
- Vietnamese citizens (except border inhabitants) and foreigners entering land border areas and staying overnight shall register their stay with local commune-level public security offices in accordance with law. Overnight stay in the border belt must be notified in writing to local border-guard posts.
- People and vehicles operating in land border areas must have sufficient papers prescribed by law and follow instructions and submit to the inspection and control by local border-guard posts, commune-level public security offices and specialized forces in accordance with law.
- Activities of Vietnamese and foreign people and vehicles in tourist, service and trade centers, border-gate economic zones, border-gate areas and other economic zones opened in land border areas must comply with regulations applicable to such zones and areas and other relevant laws.
- Other activities in land border areas must comply with the relevant laws and of Decree 34/2014/ND-CP.
- Border inhabitants of a bordering country who conduct activities in Vietnamese land border areas shall comply with agreements on border regulations concluded between the two countries and with Vietnamese law.
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