Decree 63: Titles and sub-titles in the Code of Laws and Regulations in Vietnam

Decree 63: Titles and sub-titles in the Code of Laws and Regulations in Vietnam (Internet image)

Decree 63/2013/ND-CP stipulates that the Code of Laws and Regulations (hereafter referred to as “the Code”) consists of 45 titles which are listed in Article 7 of the Ordinance on Codification (hereafter referred to as “the Ordinance”). In case where one or more legal normative documents (hereafter commonly referred to as “document”) govern one or more types of social relations that are not codified in an existing Title of the Code, the Minister of Justice shall, at its discretion or at request of a codification undertaking agency, propose the Government to add an appropriate Title.

At the same time, the Sub-Titles in the Code are as follows:

1. Sub-Title is a component part of a Title which contains legal norms governing a certain type of social relations.

2. The name of a Sub-Title is the name of the act that have the highest legal effect and that governs a type of social relations of a Title.

3. Depending on the name of each Sub-Title, the Sub-Titles in each Title shall be sequenced by the Vietnamese Alphabet and shall be numbered by the Arabic numerals, starting from number 1. An added Sub-Title shall be numbered and placed following the last Sub-Title that already exists in the Title.

4. The structure of a Sub-Title shall be the structure of the legal document whose name is used as the name of that Sub-Title. Parts, chapters and sections may be added in accordance with the provisions of article 12 of this Decree.

In addition, this Decree also regulates the Parts, Chapters and Sections in the Code as follows:

• Parts, chapters and sections are component parts of the Sub-titles which contains the Articles of the Code.

• The name and sequent number of parts, chapters and sections in a Sub-Title is the name and sequent number of the corresponding parts, chapters and sections in the legal document whose name is used as the name of that Sub-Title.

• An added part, chapter and section shall be numbered and placed following the part, chapter and section whose contents relate most to the contents of the added parts, chapters and sections. The name of an added part, chapter and section is a phrase reflecting the main contents of that part, chapter and section.

More details can be found in Decree 63/2013/ND-CP, which comes into force from August 15, 2013.

Ty Na

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