Scope of development of a judicial record database in Vietnam

Scope of development of a c database in Vietnam (Internet image)

Articles 7 and 8 of Decree 111/2010/ND-CP stipulate the development of a judicial record database in Vietnam as follows:

- The development of a judicial record database cover:

• Receiving, verifying, classifying and processing judicial record information provided by agencies and organizations under the Law on Judicial Records and this Decree.

• Making judicial records under the Law on Judicial Records and this Decree.

• Updating judicial records already made.

- Scope of development of judicial record databases on previous criminal convictions:

The National Center for Judicial Records and provincial-level Justice Departments shall develop judicial record databases on previous criminal convictions of the following persons:

• Persons convicted by Vietnamese courts from July 1, 2010, or afterwards.

• Persons convicted by Vietnamese courts before July 1, 2010, whose judicial record information is provided by competent agencies or organizations under Articles 16 thru 21 of the Law on Judicial Records to the National Center for Judicial Records and provincial-level Justice Departments from that date on.

• Persons convicted by Vietnamese courts before July 1, 2010, whose previous criminal conviction status is informed by police offices, courts or competent agencies of the Ministry of National Defense to the National Center for Judicial Records and provincial-level Justice Departments from that date on for issuance of judicial record cards.

• Vietnamese citizens convicted by foreign courts, whose excerpts of previous criminal sentences or convictions are provided by the Supreme People's Procuracy to the National Center for Judicial Records from July 1, 2010 on.

• Vietnamese citizens convicted by foreign courts who are transferred for serving their imprisonment sentences in Vietnam from July 1, 2010 on.

More details can be found in Decree 111/2010/ND-CP, which comes into force from January 10, 2011.

Nguyen Phu

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