In order to get a construction planning practicing certificate, what documents do individuals need to prepare? How is the test aimed at issuing with individuals’ practicing certificate?
What are the eligibility requirements of construction planning practicing certificates?
An individual shall be considered to be issued with a construction planning practicing certificate if he/she meet the eligibility requirements in Article 66 and 67 of Decree 15/2021/ND-CP of Vietnam and the eligibility requirements corresponding to ranks in Article 69 of Decree 15/2021/ND-CP of Vietnam:
- A Rank-I construction planning practicing certificate is awarded to the individual who has worked as a chairperson or president in charge of designing disciplines of at least 01 construction planning project that has been approved by the Prime Minister or 02 construction planning projects (including at least 01 inter-district, district or general construction planning project) that have been approved by the People’s Committee of the province.
- A Rank-II construction planning practicing certificate is awarded to the individual who has worked as a chairperson or president in charge of designing disciplines of at least 01 construction planning project that has been approved by the People’s Committee of the province or 02 construction planning projects that have been approved by the People’s Committee of the district.
- A Rank-III construction planning practicing certificate is awarded to the individual who has participated in designing disciplines of at least 01 construction planning project that has been approved by the People’s Committee of the province or 02 construction planning projects that have been approved by the People’s Committee of the district.
Therefore, you should carefully review yourself one more time to make sure that you already meet full of the general and specific requirements in order to be issued with the construction planning practicing certificate.
Construction planning practicing certificate
What is the application for construction practicing certificate?
Pursuant to Article 76 of Decree 15/2021/ND-CP of Vietnam, an application for construction practicing certificate includes:
- An application form provided in form 01 of the Appendix IV of this Decree;
- The applicant’s 02 color 4 x 6 cm and white background photos and file thereof which are taken within the last 06 months;
- Qualification(s) awarded by a legal training institution in accordance with the type or rank of the certificate applied for;
The qualification(s) awarded by a foreign training institution must bear consular authentication and enclosed with notarized and certified Vietnamese translations as prescribed by Vietnam’s laws;
- Practicing certificate issued by a competent authority, in the case of applying for upgrade of the practicing certificate;
- Decisions on task assignment (responsibility assignment) issued by an organization to an individual or written confirmation of completed typical tasks provided by the legal representative of the investor. The person signing the written confirmation shall take responsibility for its truthfulness. In case the individual runs his/her own construction business, a contract and record on commissioning of listed typical tasks are required;
- Legal residence-related documents or work permit issued by a Vietnamese competent authority, applicable to foreigners;
- Copy of passing test result in case the test is done before the date of submission of the application for the practicing certificate;
- Documents specified in Points c, d, dd and e of this Clause must be certified true copies or included in a file that contains color photos of originals or copies presented together with the originals for comparison.
In order to get a practicing certificate, first of all, you need to prepare the above documents.
What is the test for issuance of construction practicing certificate?
Pursuant to Article 77 of Decree 15/2021/ND-CP of Vietnam, test for issuance of construction practicing certificate is stipulated as follows:
- The issuing authority shall organize a test for issuance of the construction practicing certificate. In case an individual wishes to apply for a test before submitting the application for issuance of the practicing certificate, the application form No. 02 provided in the Appendix IV shall be submitted to an issuing authority.
- The test shall be done on a monthly or ad hoc basis and decided by the head of the issuing authority. The issuing authority shall notify the screening result of application for issuance of practicing certificate, time, location of test at least 3 business days before the test date.
- A test consists of two parts: legal knowledge and professional knowledge. The individual whose practicing certificate remains valid shall be exempted from questions about professional knowledge related to the field specified in such practicing certificate.
The individual applying for reissuance of practicing certificate in a case where the lost or damaged practicing certificate remains valid is not required to take a test.
- The test result shall be retained for 06 months from the date on which the test is taken to form a basis for issuance of the practicing certificate.
- The issuing authority shall arrange a place for the test that must satisfy the infrastructure requirements. To be specific:
+ There must be a testing area, waiting area and area for providing test guidelines in the testing place;
+ The testing area must be provided with space for arranging tables, chairs and at least 10 computers;
+ Computers must operate in a stable manner, be connected using LAN, connected to printers and Internet. The Internet bandwidth must be good enough to ensure continuous operation of computers during the test;
+ Closed-circuit television cameras with a minimum resolution of 1280 x 720 (720P) must be installed in a manner that ensures the testing area is properly monitored and be capable of storing data for at least 30 days from the date on which the test is organized;
+ There must be at least 01 set of loudspeakers to publicly announce information during the test;
+ There must be at least 01 printer to print testing reports and 01 standby printer;
+ Testing software shall be transferred by construction authorities affiliated to the Ministry of Construction and used nationwide.
- Individuals shall pay charges for taking a test for issuance of construction practicing certificates. Such charges shall be collected, transferred, managed and used in accordance with regulations of the Ministry of Construction.
Thus, in order to be issued with a construction planning practicing certificate, you need to ensure that you meet full of the above requirements and prepare the application sufficiently for the practicing certificate. Besides, the law also specifies the test for issuance of construction practicing certificate as above.
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