Vietnam’s Decree 31: Guidance on preparation for locations for temporary storage of seized exhibits and vehicles

According to Decree No. 31/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, locations for temporary storage of exhibits and vehicles can be a separate storage of an agency or a mutual storage shared by multiple competent agencies capable of suspending exhibits and vehicles. Based on practical conditions of each province and request of competent agencies capable of suspending exhibits and vehicles, Chairpersons of People’s Committees of provinces and central-affiliated cities shall decide to construct mutual storage for exhibits and vehicles of multiple competent agencies capable of seizing and confiscating exhibits and vehicles. The storage must be designed with models and scale satisfactory to requirements for managing and preserving exhibits and vehicles. People’s Committees of provinces and central-affiliated cities shall organize construction of the storage on behalf of agencies regularly suspending exhibits and vehicles.

In case agencies suspending exhibits and vehicles are ineligible for constructing temporary storage or satisfying construction scale and safety conditions at storage units and thus incapable of adequately managing and preserving seized and confiscated exhibits and vehicles, the agencies shall hire places to use as storage units. Rental prices shall comply with agreements and rental agreements must be signed upon renting according to the Civil Code.

In case of suspending exhibits and vehicles in small quantities or in small sizes which are unnecessarily transferred to storage units such as buildings, warehouses or ports, competent individuals capable of suspending exhibits and vehicles may temporarily store said exhibits and vehicles at their base offices. In this case, competent individuals capable of suspending exhibits and vehicles must allocate and assign the seized and confiscated exhibits and vehicles to direct managing officials for management and preservation.

View more details at: Decree No. 31/2020/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government takes effect from May 01, 2020.

Thu Ba

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