Vietnam: The prescriptive period for handling of administrative violation against regulations on inland waterway navigation shall be 01 year

16:35, 28/12/2015

This is a content mentioned in Decree No. 132/2015/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government stipulating penalties for administrative violations in inland waterway traffic.

According to Decree No. 132/2015/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government: “The prescriptive period for handling of administrative violation against regulations on inland waterway navigation shall be 01 year. The prescriptive period for handling of administrative violations shall be 02 years for violations against regulations on construction of infrastructure of inland waterways.”.

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Decree No. 132/2015/ND-CP specifies forms of administrative penalties, remedial measures and application of fines for administrative violations in inland waterway traffic as follows:

- The organizations and individuals that commit inland waterway navigation violations shall be subject to one of the following main penalties:

+ Warnings;

+ Fines.

- The organizations and individuals that commit inland waterway navigation violations shall be subject to one of the following additional penalties according to the nature and severity of violations:

+ Suspend certificates of competency or professional certificates for fixed periods of from 01 month to 06 months;

+ Suspend the operation for fixed periods of from 01 month to 03 months;

+ Confiscate material evidence and/or means used for administrative violations.

Apart from the penalties mentioned above, the organizations and individuals who commit inland waterway navigation violations shall take the remedial measures specified in Chapter II of this Decree.

Besides, the fine for each administrative violation specified in Chapter II of this Decree are incurred by individuals, except for regulations specified at Article 15 and Article 18 of this Decree. In case of the fine for the same administrative violation committed by an organization shall be 2 times as much as that on individuals.

More details can be found in Decree No. 132/2015/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government, which takes effect from July 01, 2016.

Thu Ba

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