Is a warning additional form of administrative sanction in Vietnam?

Clauses 1 and 2, Article 21, Law on Handling Administrative Violations 2012 provides for forms of administrative sanctions in Vietnam as follows:

1. Forms of administrative sanctions include:

a) Warning;

b) Fines;

c) Stripping off the right to use permits, professional practice certificates in a definite term; or suspension of operation in a definite term;

d) Confiscating material evidences, means of administrative violation used to commit administrative violations (hereinafter called material evidences, means of administrative violation);

e) Expulsion;

2. Sanctioning forms specified in point a and point b, Clause 1 of this Article shall be defined and applied as principal sanctioning forms.

Sanctioning forms specified in the points c, d and e, Clause 1 of this Article may be specified as additional sanctioning forms or principal sanctioning forms.

=> According to the above regulation, a warning is a primary form of administrative sanction in Vietnam, not a additional form of sanction.

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