Administrative procedures for the approval of a representative or management board of belief establishments.

1. Procedures:

Step 1. A representative or management board of a belief establishment shall send a notice to the people’s committee of the commune.

Step 2. The people’s committee of the commune shall consider the notice and make its administrative record.

2. Sending and receiving the notice: the notice shall be sent directly or by post office, and shall be received in working days.

3.The notice shall comprise:

a. Components (form)

b. Number of copy: 01

4. Subjects to fulfill administrative procedures: belief establishments

5. Agency to handle administrative procedures: the commune-level people’s committee

6. Fees: No

7. The form, declaration forms: form B1for a representative or management board of a belief establishment as prescribed by Circular No. 01/2013 / TT – BNV dated on March 25, 2013

8. Requirements and conditions for implementation of administrative procedures

- A representative or management board of a belief establishment shall send a notice to the people’s committee of the commune within 3 working days after election or designation results are available.

- A representative or management board of a belief establishment shall be a Vietnamese citizen having full civil behavior capacity, enjoying credibility in his/her community, and strictly observing the law.

9. Legal ground for administrative procedures

- Ordinance on Belief and Religion dated June 18^th, 2004

- Decree 92/2012/NĐ-CP date November 8^th, 2012 detailing and providing measures for the implementation of the Ordinance on Belief and Religion.

- Circular No. 01/2013 / TT – BNV dated on March 25, 2013 of Ministry of Home Affairs issuing and guiding the use of forms of administrative procedures in the field of belief and religion.