Regulation on numbers and symbols of legislative documents of Vietnam

Nguyen Trinh

17:21, 15/11/2017

The Law on Promulgation of legislative documents 2015 of Vietnam was promulgated on June 22, 2015. This Law provides for principles, authority, manners, procedures for formulating and promulgating legislative documents, responsibilities of regulatory agencies, organizations, and individuals in formulating legislative documents. One of the notable contents of this Law is the regulation on numbers and symbols of legislative documents.

Specifically, according to Article 10 of the Law on Promulgation of legislative documents 2015 of Vietnam, numbers and symbols of legislative documents are specified as follows:

- Each legislative document must have a specified ordinal number, year or promulgation, type, and promulgating agency.

- Legislative documents shall be numbered according to each type and year of promulgation. Laws, resolutions of the National Assembly, ordinances, resolutions of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly shall be numbered according to each type of document and tenure of the National Assembly.

- Numbers and symbols of legislative documents are arranged as follows:

+ Numbers, symbols of laws and resolutions of the National Assembly are arranged in the following order: “type of document: number of document/year of promulgation/abbreviated name of promulgating agency, and ordinal number of the National Assembly”;

+ Numbers, symbols of ordinances and resolutions of the National Assembly are arranged in the following order: “type of document: number of document/year of promulgation/abbreviated name of promulgating agency, and ordinal number of the National Assembly”;

+ Numbers, symbols of legislative documents other than those prescribed in Point a and Point b of this Clause are arranged in the following order: “number of document/year of promulgation/abbreviated name of document type - abbreviated name of the promulgating agency”.

The Law on Promulgation of legislative documents 2015 of Vietnam officially takes effect from July 01, 2016.

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