Warning and Monetary Fine are the Two Main Forms of Sanctions in Administrative Violation Penalties?
Article 21 of the Law on Handling Administrative Violations 2012 provides:
- Forms of administrative penalties include:
a) Warning;
b) Monetary fine;
c) Temporary revocation of licenses, practice certificates, or suspension of operations;
d) Confiscation of materials used in administrative violations and means used to commit administrative violations (hereafter collectively referred to as materials and means of administrative violations);
dd) Expulsion.
- The forms of penalties specified in points a and b of Clause 1 of this Article shall only be stipulated and applied as principal penalties.
The forms of penalties specified in points c, d, and dd of Clause 1 of this Article may be stipulated as supplementary penalties or principal penalties.
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From the aforementioned regulations, it is evident that there are up to 05 principal forms of penalties in the handling of administrative violations, which are the forms stipulated from points a to dd above. Among these, the monetary fine and warning are the 02 forms of penalties that can solely be applied as principal penalties. The remaining forms of penalties can either be supplementary penalties or principal penalties.
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