These are the legal texts Da Nang Oi's guides cite — laws, decrees, circulars, resolutions and decisions. Each one below shows its status as checked on the date shown, where it can be read in full, and which guides rely on it. See how we check guides for how this register is kept up to date.
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47/2014/QH13
Law on Entry, Exit, Transit and Residence of Foreigners in Vietnam
In force · Law · Effective date not confirmed
Amended by 118/2025/QH15 (effective ): Confirmed 27/09/2026 by reading the primary signed Gazette PDF directly, page by page as images (28 pages; it is a scan with no text layer but reads fine as images) — superseding the earlier 'could not be checked directly' caveat. Điều 2 of this law (dedicated to Law 47/2014/QH13) contains exactly 17 numbered points: adds Điều 6a; adds khoản 22/23 Điều 8 (UĐ1/UĐ2 visa symbols); amends khoản 6 Điều 9 (LS/ĐT1/ĐT2/UĐ1/UĐ2 visas ≤5 years); adds điểm đ khoản 4 Điều 10; adds khoản 6 Điều 12 (a new, separate exemption for 'đối tượng đặc biệt cần ưu đãi phục vụ phát triển kinh tế - xã hội', distinct from the Điều 13 country-list mechanism); amends khoản 1 Điều 16; adds Điều 16b; adds điểm đ khoản 1 Điều 31 (treaty-override exception only — điểm c's 45-day figure from 23/2023/QH15 is untouched); amends điểm b khoản 1 Điều 36; amends khoản 2 Điều 38 (ĐT1/UĐ1/UĐ2 TRC ≤10 years); amends Điều 43; amends điểm b khoản 1 Điều 45; amends khoản 3 Điều 46; amends khoản 2 Điều 51; renames Điều 52; various terminology swaps; repeals Điều 16 khoản 6-7. Điều 12, 13, 20, 21, 28, 30, 35 are otherwise untouched by this law specifically (Điều 28 is touched by a different, newly-found amending law — see the 103/2025/QH15 proposal above).
Amended by 103/2025/QH15 (effective ): Amends Điều 28 khoản 2 (exceptions to temporary exit-suspension), adding an exclusion for people covered by Điều 35 khoản 1 and Điều 37 khoản 1 of Luật Tương trợ tư pháp về hình sự (persons transferred for mutual legal-assistance proceedings). Does not touch Điều 12, 13, 20 or 21 (entry conditions / exemption / refusal). Confirmed via luatvietnam.vn full-text mirror (tier document), quote: 'Các trường hợp quy định tại khoản 1 Điều này không áp dụng đối với những người quy định tại khoản 1 Điều 35 và khoản 1 Điều 37 của Luật Tương trợ tư pháp về hình sự.'
Law amending several laws (2025) — incl. Law 47/2014/QH13 (foreigners entry/exit, Điều 2) and Law 36/2024/QH15 (road traffic order and safety)
In force · Law · Effective
Omnibus amending law. Signed Gazette PDF (scan) read page by page 27/09/2026 (batch D coverage): Điều 2 amends Law 47/2014/QH13 — see that entry. Batch E research: also amends Law 36/2024/QH15 (licensing authority moved to the Ministry of Public Security; Điều 9 and 57 content unchanged per the consolidated text).
Circular on forms for foreigners' entry, exit, transit and residence (NA-series forms)
In force · Circular · Effective date not confirmed
Amended by 70/2026/TT-BCA (effective ): Art. 1(5) amends form NA5 (Tờ khai đề nghị cấp thị thực, gia hạn tạm trú). Confirmed against the signed gazette PDF, 26/09/2026.
Circular on visas, temporary residence cards and permanent residence for foreigners
In force · Circular · Effective date not confirmed
Verified from the gazette text: does not cover temporary stay extension.
Amended by 70/2026/TT-BCA (effective ): Does not govern stay extensions.
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81/2026/TT-BTC
Circular amending the ABTC card fee for Vietnamese businesspeople
In force · Circular · Effective
Touches Section I (Vietnamese citizens) of 28/2026/TT-BTC only, not foreigner rows. Confirmed via press (luatvietnam.vn); gazette text not located.
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103/2025/QH15
Law on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (Luật Tương trợ tư pháp về hình sự)
In force · Law · Effective
Mostly unrelated to immigration, but amends Điều 28 khoản 2 of Law 47/2014/QH13 (see the 47/2014/QH13 amended_by proposal below). Confirmed via luatvietnam.vn full-text mirror (tier document).
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109/2025/QH15
Law on Personal Income Tax (2025)
In force · Law · Effective
Replaces Law on Personal Income Tax No. 04/2007/QH12 (as amended) from 2026-07-01; per Điều 29 khoản 2 and khoản 3, the provisions on business income and on wages/salaries of a resident individual specifically apply/cease-to-apply from the 2026 tax period. Gazette No. 37, dated 22/01/2026. Confirmed 27/09/2026 by reading the primary text mirror page by page (14 pages, has a text layer) at https://cms.luatvietnam.vn/uploaded/Others/2025/12/30/Luat-109-2025-QH15_3012143156.pdf — cross-checked against the congbao.chinhphu.vn gazette page for issue/effective dates. Re-checked 27/09/2026: Điều 1 (Phạm vi điều chỉnh), Điều 21–27 (non-resident tax rates by income type: wages 20% Điều 21, capital investment 5% Điều 22, capital transfer 20%/2%/0.1% Điều 23, real estate transfer 2% Điều 24, royalties/franchising 5% Điều 25, prizes/inheritance/gifts 10% Điều 26, other income 5%/0.1% Điều 27) and Điều 29 khoản 4 (a Luật Thủ đô carve-out, unrelated to residency) were all read directly from the same primary PDF; no discrepancy found against existing claims. Additional check 27/09/2026 (buy-apartment-da-nang-foreigner research): Điều 14 khoản 1 sets the same 2% rate for a RESIDENT individual's real estate transfer income ('giá chuyển nhượng nhân (x) với thuế suất 2%'), extracted via pdftotext from the same primary text-layer PDF mirror — this complements Điều 24 (non-resident rate) already noted above; both articles were read from the same source document.
Decree detailing a number of articles and providing measures to organise and guide implementation of the Law on Personal Income Tax
In force · Decree · Effective
Guides Law 109/2025/QH15, including khoản 4 Điều 2 (resident/non-resident definitions — see Điều 4/Điều 5 of this decree) and other articles listed in Điều 1 khoản 1 of the decree. Confirmed 27/09/2026 by reading the primary signed Gazette PDF page by page as images (it is a scan with no text layer). Re-checked 27/09/2026, Điều 69 (Hiệu lực thi hành) khoản 2 and khoản 3, read directly (no longer relying on secondary press): 'Nghị định này thay thế Nghị định số 65/2013/NĐ-CP ngày 27 tháng 6 năm 2013 của Chính phủ quy định chi tiết một số điều của Luật Thuế thu nhập cá nhân và Luật sửa đổi, bổ sung một số điều của Luật Thuế thu nhập cá nhân' and it bãi bỏ Điều 3 Nghị định số 91/2014/NĐ-CP (01/10/2014) and Điều 2 Nghị định số 12/2015/NĐ-CP (12/02/2015). No further amendment to this decree itself was found as of 27/09/2026.
Replaces Luật Quản lý thuế số 38/2019/QH14 (as amended by Luật số 56/2024/QH15) from 2026-07-01, per Điều 52 khoản 3 (with narrow transitional carve-outs at khoản 1/3 Điều 53, and Điều 51 of the old law having already ceased to apply from 2026-01-01). Điều 2 khoản 1 điểm b makes a foreign organization/individual doing business in or earning income in Vietnam a taxpayer. Điều 10 khoản 4 leaves the tax-registration time limit itself to be set 'theo quy định của Chính phủ' — the law text does not state a number of days; see Decree 252/2026/NĐ-CP for the operative deadline. Confirmed 27/09/2026 by reading the primary signed Gazette PDF page by page as images (65 pages, scan, no text layer) at https://datafiles.chinhphu.vn/cpp/files/vbpq/2026/01/108-qh15.signed.pdf.
Decree detailing a number of articles and providing measures to organise and guide implementation of the Law on Tax Administration
In force · Decree · Effective
Điều 6 khoản 3 điểm a, a.4 sets the first-time tax-registration time limit at 10 working days from the date the personal income tax obligation arises, for an individual (including a foreigner) who registers tax directly with the tax authority. Điều 74 (Hiệu lực thi hành) khoản 3 says this decree replaces Nghị định 126/2020/NĐ-CP and its amending decrees 91/2022/NĐ-CP, 49/2025/NĐ-CP, 117/2025/NĐ-CP and 373/2025/NĐ-CP; khoản 4 keeps Nghị định 125/2020/NĐ-CP (as amended) in force pending its own replacement. Confirmed 27/09/2026 by reading the primary signed Gazette PDF page by page as images (133 pages, scan, no text layer).
New entry — not previously in laws.json. Cited via the consolidated text (Văn bản hợp nhất 55/VBHN-VPQH), which is the current in-force text incorporating the 118/2025/QH15 amendments. Điều 9 khoản 1 (ban on driving without a licence) and Điều 57 (licence classes A1/A, IDP conditions) confirmed unchanged from the original 2024 text except as noted above.
Amended by 118/2025/QH15 (effective ): Law 118/2025/QH15 is an omnibus law amending 10 laws related to security and order, including this one. Checked its confirmed changes to Law 36/2024/QH15 (child car-seat rules, driving-hour limits, journey-monitoring devices, and the Điều 7 khoản 1 database provisions) and separately read the consolidated text (Văn bản hợp nhất 55/VBHN-VPQH, incorporating 118/2025/QH15) for Điều 9 and Điều 57: both are unchanged except Điều 57 khoản 9, where the rule-making authority for driving-licence/IDP procedures moved from the Ministry of Transport to the Ministry of Public Security (reflecting the 2025 transfer of licensing authority) — no impact on the Điều 9 khoản 1 base prohibition or the Điều 57 khoản 1/6/8 licence-category and IDP provisions cited for this article.
Circular on driving tests, driving-licence issuance, and international driving permit issuance/use (Ministry of Public Security)
In force · Circular · Effective
New entry — not previously in laws.json. Replaces Circular 12/2025/TT-BCA in full. Điều 24 governs converting a foreigner's national driving licence to a Vietnamese one (eligibility: visa/thẻ tạm trú ≥90 days or valid thẻ thường trú; documents; filed at the Traffic Police Department or Cổng Dịch vụ công quốc gia; issued within 1 day, printed/handed over within 2.5 working days). Confirmed by reading the primary signed PDF directly, page by page as images (scanned, no text layer).
Decree on the base salary (mức lương cơ sở) and bonus regime for officials, civil servants, public employees and the armed forces (2026)
In force · Decree · Effective
Read via the government policy portal's announcement article (tier gov), not the primary signed Gazette PDF directly. Sets the base salary at VND 2,530,000/month from 1 July 2026, up from VND 2,340,000/month. Under Law 41/2024/QH15 Điều 141 khoản 13, the social-insurance "reference level" (mức tham chiếu) equals the base salary until the base salary is abolished — so this is the figure that currently sets the contribution-salary floor and the 20x cap. Could not confirm from this source alone exactly which earlier decree (e.g. 73/2024/NĐ-CP) it replaces — left unstated rather than guessed.
Circular on the content and procedure for approving telecommunications-numbering and Internet-resource planning, and implementing that approval (Ministry of Science and Technology)
In force · Circular · Effective
Procedural only — who approves telecom numbering plans and how, following the 2025 machinery-of-government move of telecom regulation from the former Ministry of Information and Communications into the Ministry of Science and Technology. This session found no evidence it re-sets the substantive 112/113/114/115 assignments themselves, which as of 27/09/2026 still stand per Circular 22/2014/TT-BTTTT's Phụ lục 3 (as replaced by 27/2021/TT-BTTTT). Not read in full — only summarized via secondary press coverage — so treat with caution and re-check before relying on it for anything beyond 'a new approval-procedure circular exists'.
New for this batch. Cited in research/vietnam-health-insurance-foreigners/research.json claim c19 (Điều 1 — phạm vi điều chỉnh) to check whether the Law on Health Insurance's Điều 2 khoản 7 definition of 'hộ gia đình' (which requires residence registration 'theo quy định của pháp luật về cư trú') reaches a foreigner. This law's own Điều 1 states its scope is the residence registration of 'công dân Việt Nam' (Vietnamese citizens) — it does not itself say foreigners are excluded from the BHYT household definition, only that this law's own registration regime is framed around citizens. Kept as an open question in research.json rather than inferred either way. Read via a legal-database mirror (caselaw.vn, tier document) — vbpl.vn's detail pages redirected to its homepage on every attempt in this session; the Gazette's own PDF was not fetched.
Amended by 118/2025/QH15 (effective ): Already registered in src/data/laws.json (used elsewhere in this project). Secondary sources list it as amending 10 security-related laws including Luật Cư trú, effective 1/7/2026. Not verified against primary text by this research; not used as the basis for any claim here.
Government Decree on administrative-violation penalties in postal, telecommunications, radio-frequency, electronic-transaction and information-technology fields (Quy định xử phạt vi phạm hành chính trong lĩnh vực bưu chính, viễn thông, tần số vô tuyến điện, giao dịch điện tử và công nghệ thông tin)
In force · Decree · Effective
Điều 2 khoản 1 (claim c16), Điều 34 khoản 1 điểm a and khoản 7 điểm b (claims c17-c18) are the source for this article's fine claims; Điều 4 khoản 3 (claim c28) sets the organisation-vs-individual fine rule (individual = 1/2 of the organisation figure) that those two fines are stated at. Coverage-verify pass, 27/09/2026: resolved the prior caveat about not having located this decree's own 'Hiệu lực thi hành' article — read page 138-139 of 140 of the primary signed Gazette PDF directly as images and confirmed Điều 117 khoản 1 ('Nghị định này có hiệu lực thi hành từ ngày 01 tháng 7 năm 2026', claim c25) and khoản 2 (repeals Chương II, Chương III, Chương IV, Điều 75, 77, 93a, 93b, 96 and Điều 98-106, Chương V, Chương VI, Chương VII of Nghị định 15/2020/NĐ-CP as amended by Nghị định 14/2022/NĐ-CP and Nghị định 211/2025/NĐ-CP — a partial, named-article repeal, not a full replacement of 15/2020/NĐ-CP, claim c26). Second coverage-verify pass, same day (main review): downloaded the primary PDF via curl directly (bypassing the WebFetch cache/race issue noted below), confirmed page 1 is 174/2026/NĐ-CP (bưu chính/viễn thông scope), read Điều 4 khoản 3 verbatim on page 6 of 140 (claim c28, supersedes mirror-only c24), and read Điều 34 in full on pages 34-37 — Điều 34 khoản 1's own chapeau ('Phạt tiền thuê bao viễn thông...') has no wording overriding Điều 4 khoản 3's default tổ chức/cá nhân split, so c17/c18's fine figures are the organisation-level amount. Note for future sessions: an earlier repeat WebFetch of this exact PDF URL in this same coverage-verify pass returned a DIFFERENT decree's scanned content (169/2026/NĐ-CP, customs) instead of 174/2026/NĐ-CP, and a later WebFetch of the same URL had its saved file disappear before the follow-up Read (apparent cache/race behaviour in this shared multi-agent run when several coverage-verify agents fetch chinhphu.vn PDFs concurrently) — downloading via `curl -o <scratchpad-path> <url>` and reading that local file sidesteps it and is the more reliable approach for this URL going forward.
Decree on administrative penalties in the customs field (2026)
In force · Decree · Effective
coverage-verify update (research agent's laws-proposed.json entry only had an aggregator URL, thuvienxuatnhapkhau.com, and open questions on the exit-side fine ladder, confiscation clause and effective-date article — all now resolved by reading the primary signed Gazette PDF directly, page by page as images (54 pages, scan, no text layer). Replaces Nghị định 128/2020/NĐ-CP AND Điều 2 of its amending Nghị định 102/2021/NĐ-CP in full, per Điều 38 khoản 1-2 (quoted verbatim in research.json claim c18) — effective 1/7/2026. Điều 11 ('Vi phạm quy định về khai hải quan của người xuất cảnh, nhập cảnh đối với ngoại tệ tiền mặt, đồng Việt Nam tiền mặt, công cụ chuyển nhượng, vàng, kim loại quý khác, đá quý') carries both fine ladders: khoản 1 = exit (1-3/5-15/15-25/30-50 million VND by tang-vật tiers 5-30/30-70/70-100/100+ million — research.json c14), khoản 2 = entry (1-2/5-10/10-20 million VND by tiers 5-50/50-100/100+ million — research.json c9, exact match to the quote the research agent already had); khoản 3 = over-declaring more than actually carried (entry); khoản 4 = giấy-thông-hành/border-pass holders with forbidden-type currency (out of scope for a passport traveller); khoản 5 = other precious metals/gems/negotiable instruments; khoản 6 = tang-vật value is net of the non-declarable portion (research.json c15). Điều 6 khoản 3 điểm b: Điều 11's fines are already individual rates, not halved from an organisation rate (research.json c17). Điều 6 khoản 4: confiscation of the tang vật is a general supplementary penalty across the decree's Chapter II, no exclusion found for Điều 11 (research.json c16). Vanban.chinhphu.vn portal page (metadata only, no full text) also now confirmed reachable at https://vanban.chinhphu.vn/?docid=218154&pageid=27160.
Decree amending and supplementing Decree 72/2025/NĐ-CP on the mechanism and timing for adjusting the average retail electricity price
In force · Decree · Effective
Press-sourced only (baochinhphu.vn, a government-portal news article — not yet cross-checked against a text-layer primary PDF). Changes the PROCEDURE/timing for EVN to adjust the average retail electricity price (e.g., quarterly review windows, 15-working-day MOIT comment period) — it does not itself change any price or tariff table, and does not replace Decision 1279/QĐ-BCT. Relevant here only to confirm that, as of 27/09/2026, no actual average-price adjustment decision has been issued that would trigger Decision 14/2025/QĐ-TTg's new 5-tier structure or Circular 60/2025/TT-BCT's delayed Điều 12 khoản 5 điểm c.
Circular on the methods for declaring and receiving foreigners' temporary residence information
In force · Circular · Effective
Replaces Circular 53/2016/TT-BCA. Confirmed against the signed Official Gazette PDF (has a real text layer, not a scan) and corroborated by congan.angiang.gov.vn. Not yet in laws.json — neither 87/2026/TT-BCA nor 53/2016/TT-BCA existed there before this research.
Decree on penalties for administrative violations in veterinary work (incl. Điều 14 khoản 2 điểm a — failure to register/declare import quarantine)
In force · Decree · Effective
Replaces Decree 90/2017/NĐ-CP (Điều 50 khoản 2 of this decree) effective 1 Aug 2026 — 90/2017/NĐ-CP is NOT the current penalty decree and should not be cited. Read from the official PDF served by congbao.chinhphu.vn (Công báo số 346, direct download link via the page's 'Tải về' control), via pdftotext (text layer present). Điều 14 khoản 2 điểm a: fine 4,000,000–5,000,000 VND (individual) for not registering/declaring import quarantine of an animal or animal product subject to quarantine; Điều 5 khoản 2 doubles this for an organisation (8,000,000–10,000,000 VND); Điều 5 khoản 1 caps any single veterinary violation at 50,000,000 VND (individual) / 100,000,000 VND (organisation). No article of this decree was found penalising a traveller specifically for the ≤2-pet border-declaration path (Điều 14 khoản 1 of Circular 01/2026/TT-BNNMT) as distinct from the general 'nhập khẩu ... không đăng ký, khai báo kiểm dịch' offence — the general offence is the closest fit and is what a traveller who skips declaration would fall under.
Da Nang People's Council Resolution on the fee rate, subjects, and collection/payment/management/use of the admission fee for cultural works and museums at Hội An Ancient Town; Mỹ Sơn towers, Bằng An, Chiên Đàn, Khương Mỹ towers, and the Sa Huỳnh–Chămpa Culture Museum
In force · Resolution · Effective
Original resolution's own primary text (vbpl.vn / công báo) was not fetched directly — confirmed only via the Da Nang city portal's own announcement article and press coverage (sggp.org.vn, nhandan.vn), both quoting the resolution number, issue date and effective date consistently. See research/hoi-an-from-da-nang/research.json open_questions: whether this fee (and its 98/2026 amendment) is the actual retail ticket price charged at Hội An's gates, or a separate/underlying component fee, is unresolved — the Heritage Centre's own visitor notice (undated/possibly stale) still shows unrelated 80,000/120,000 VND combo-ticket tiers citing only this resolution's exemption clause.
Amended by 98/2026/NQ-HĐND (effective ): 98/2026/NQ-HĐND amends the fee rate itself (Hội An old town changed to a flat 20,000 VND/person/structure, unified for Vietnamese and foreign visitors) and renames the Mỹ Sơn/Bằng An/Chiên Đàn/Khương Mỹ line item. Original 02/2026 Article 1 khoản 3 (fee exemptions) is still the basis the Hội An Heritage Management Centre's own visitor notice cites as of 27 Sep 2026 — not confirmed whether that exemption list was itself changed by 98/2026.
Da Nang People's Council Resolution amending and supplementing several articles of Resolution 02/2026/NQ-HĐND (11 Feb 2026) on the admission fee for cultural works and museums at Hội An Ancient Town; Mỹ Sơn towers, Bằng An, Chiên Đàn, Khương Mỹ towers, and the Sa Huỳnh–Chămpa Culture Museum
In force · Resolution · Effective
Sets Hội An Ancient Town's admission fee at a flat 20,000 VND/person/structure (từ 20.000-30.000đ range in the original 02/2026 text down to a flat 20,000đ), unified for Vietnamese and foreign visitors, effective 10 Aug 2026; Mỹ Sơn temple complex 40,000 VND/person/visit; Bằng An, Chiên Đàn, Khương Mỹ Cham towers and the Sa Huỳnh–Chămpa Culture Museum each 20,000 VND/person/visit. Confirmed by cross-checking three independent fetches (danang.gov.vn x2, nhandan.vn) that converge on identical figures; the resolution's own primary vbpl.vn/công báo text was not fetched directly. Relationship to the old town's existing 80,000/120,000 VND combo tickets is unresolved — see open_questions in research/hoi-an-from-da-nang/research.json.
Decree on administrative penalties for road traffic order and safety violations; point deduction and restoration for driving licences
In force · Decree · Effective
New entry — not previously in laws.json. Replaces Decree 100/2019/NĐ-CP. Điều 18 khoản 5/7 sets the no-driving-licence fine bands for motorbikes (2,000,000-4,000,000 VND for ≤125cc/≤11kW; 6,000,000-8,000,000 VND above that); Điều 45 khoản 2 sets the individual-vs-organisation fining-authority multiplier (2x) for Điều 42-44 office-holders. Update: `url` upgraded from the Wikisource proofread mirror to the gov-tier signed PDF (datafiles.chinhphu.vn, linked from the decree's official page on vanban.chinhphu.vn) — read directly page-by-page (scanned, no text layer) at pages 44-45 (Điều 18 khoản 5/7), page 93 (Điều 45 khoản 2) and page 101 (Điều 48 khoản 1 điểm i, vehicle-impoundment power for the same khoản 5/7 no-licence violations); text is word-for-word identical to the Wikisource mirror already cited by claims c7/c8/c10, and now also directly cited by claims c15/c16 (research/vietnam-driving-licence-foreigner/research.json).
Amended by 238/2026/NĐ-CP (effective ): Read the full 14-page signed PDF of Decree 238/2026/NĐ-CP directly (scanned, no text layer, read page-by-page as images). It amends: Điều 3 khoản 3 điểm i/l (remedial measures), Điều 6 (child-seat fines), Điều 13, Điều 14, Điều 17 (registration-plate/cargo-securing fines), Điều 18 khoản 4 điểm a ONLY — the 16-18-year-old age band, not khoản 5/khoản 7 (the motorbike no-licence fines cited in this article's claims c7-c9), Điều 20, Điều 21, Điều 26, Điều 29, Điều 32 (commercial passenger/cargo vehicle fines), and replaces Điều 42/Điều 43 (authority caps: 37,500,000 VND for commune-level chairs, 75,000,000 VND for provincial-level chairs). Does not touch Điều 18 khoản 5/7 or Điều 45 khoản 2 (the individual/organisation fining-authority multiplier), which this article's claims c7-c10 rely on.
Decree amending and supplementing Decree 168/2024/NĐ-CP on administrative penalties for road traffic order and safety violations
In force · Decree · Effective
New entry — not previously in laws.json. Amends Decree 168/2024/NĐ-CP; see the amended_by note on that entry for exactly which articles it touches (mostly commercial/passenger-transport fines, child car seats, and the Chủ tịch UBND/authority-cap articles 42-43). Does not affect the motorbike no-licence fine bands (Điều 18 khoản 5/7) or the individual/organisation multiplier (Điều 45 khoản 2) cited by this article. Điều 11 (read 27/09/2026) amends Điều 32 of 168/2024 only at khoản 9a (new), 11, 13 and 21 — commercial/cargo vehicle monitoring devices; khoản 3 (motorbike ownership-transfer fine) is untouched.
Decree on administrative penalties in labor, social insurance, and Vietnamese workers working abroad under contract
In force · Decree · Effective
Currently governs fines for work-permit violations. Điều 13: worker fined VND 15-25 million for working without a permit/confirmation or using an expired one (khoản 3); employer fined VND 30-75 million scaled by headcount for using unlicensed foreign workers (khoản 5), or VND 40-60 million for falsified dossier documents (khoản 4); deportation applies as an additional penalty for khoản 3 and khoản 4 violations specifically (khoản 6 điểm b). Replaces Decree 12/2022/NĐ-CP in full per its own Điều 66 khoản 4. Confirmed by reading the primary signed PDF directly (scanned, no text layer, read page-by-page as images).
Circular of the State Bank of Vietnam guiding the use of foreign-currency accounts and Vietnamese-dong accounts of residents and non-residents at licensed banks
In force · Circular · Effective
Read the full original 7-page scanned/signed PDF page by page via the Read tool — datafiles.chinhphu.vn copy. Confirmed still in force as of 2026-09-27.
Amended by 39/2026/TT-NHNN (effective ): Per press summaries, this amendment only adds a new Điều 2a and amends Điều 9 and khoản 2 Điều 11 to let foreign credit institutions use agent accounts in Vietnam for international payments/transfers — it does not touch Điều 3-8 (the individual/organisation credit-debit rules used in this research's c9-c11). Not independently verified against the amendment's primary text — flagged as impact 'none' based on secondary reporting only, not a direct read of 39/2026/TT-NHNN itself.
Circular amending several circulars on road, railway and inland-waterway traffic order and safety, incl. Circular 79/2024/TT-BCA on vehicle registration (Ministry of Public Security)
In force · Circular · Effective
Primary signed PDF read 27/09/2026. Điều 12 khoản 4 replaced Điều 4 khoản 4 of 79/2024/TT-BCA with a commune-level rule scoped to residents "tại địa phương"; the province-wide wording came later with 51/2025/TT-BCA (1/7/2025).
Circular guiding the authentication of mobile ground-network subscriber information (Hướng dẫn việc xác thực thông tin thuê bao di động mặt đất)
In force · Circular · Effective
Issued by the Ministry of Science and Technology under khoản 2 Điều 18 Nghị định 163/2024/NĐ-CP. Điều 6 khoản 2 điểm a and Điều 10 khoản 6 are the source for this article's claims c19-c21 on the extra authentication step for a foreign national's passport-registered subscription and the 60-day-then-suspend-then-terminate transition timeline. Điều 9: the whole circular took effect 15/4/2026, except Điều 8 (device-change re-authentication), which took effect 15/6/2026 (claim c22). Confirmed by reading the primary signed/'sao y' PDF directly, page by page as images (9-page scan, no text layer).
Circular of the State Bank of Vietnam amending and supplementing legal documents on dossier requirements involving certified copies (incl. amending Circular 11/2014/TT-NHNN)
In force · Circular · Effective date not confirmed
Not previously in this register. Omnibus circular amending paperwork/dossier provisions across roughly 20 SBV circulars; the only piece relevant to this article is its amendment of khoản 2 Điều 5 Thông tư 11/2014/TT-NHNN, which impact:none for the claims this article relies on (see that entry).
Circular of the State Bank of Vietnam amending several circulars, including Circular 15/2011/TT-NHNN's bank-certificate provision for carrying cash abroad
In force · Circular · Effective
Not previously in this register. Its main subject (per other sources found this session) is guidance on one-way remittances from Vietnam abroad and payment/transfer for other current transactions of resident organisations/individuals — the amendment to Thông tư 15/2011/TT-NHNN's Điều 5 khoản 1 điểm a is a secondary provision within it. Only a paraphrased secondary summary of that amendment was obtained this session, not the primary Gazette text — see open_questions in research/vietnam-cash-declaration-customs/research.json.
Ministry of Finance circular on civil-status fees (framework/ceiling for provincial/city People's Councils)
In force · Circular · Effective
Read only via a secondary source (Sở Tư pháp Đắk Lắk, a .gov.vn provincial page), not the primary circular text. Sets a national ceiling of 1,500,000 VND for civil-status procedures involving a foreign element (incl. marriage registration); each province/city's People's Council sets its own rate within this ceiling by its own resolution. Could not confirm whether this circular itself has since been amended or replaced — status/effective left as found, not independently re-verified against vbpl.vn.
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Day trips & sights
1531/QĐ-BVHTTDL
Decision ranking Hải Vân Quan (the fortification at the summit of Hải Vân Pass) as a National Heritage Site (di tích cấp Quốc gia)
In force · Decision · Effective date not confirmed
Cited only via Trung tâm Bảo tồn Di tích Cố đô Huế's own 2024 reopening notice, which states: 'Ngày 14/4/2017 Bộ Văn hoá, Thể thao và Du lịch xếp hạng Hải Vân Quan là di tích cấp Quốc gia theo quyết định số 1531/QĐ-BVHTTDL.' The decision's own primary text (issued by Bộ Văn hoá, Thể thao và Du lịch) was not located/fetched, so status:in_force is inferred from the relic still being actively managed and promoted as a national heritage site as of 2026, not from reading the decision itself. Do not cite this for anything beyond "this is the designation decision" without further verification.
Prime Minister's Decision approving the Programme to provide public-utility telecommunications services to 2030 (Chương trình cung cấp dịch vụ viễn thông công ích đến năm 2030)
In force · Decision · Effective
Mục II.1.a lists 'Dịch vụ viễn thông khẩn cấp; dịch vụ viễn thông liên lạc đến Tổng đài 112' as a mandatory public-utility telecom service; Mục III.2, Nhiệm vụ 2.1 supports its use for 'Mọi cá nhân, tổ chức' nationwide ('Cả nước') via the 'Đặt hàng' state-procurement mechanism — the source for this article's claims c20-c21, and the current legal basis (alongside the 2026 MOST ceiling-price decisions, c22-c23) for emergency numbers being free to call. Effective from its signing date, runs to 31/12/2030 (Mục VI). Confirmed by reading the primary signed PDF directly, page by page as images (11-page scan, no text layer).
Decree amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree 10/2022/NĐ-CP on registration fee
In force · Decree · Effective
Not read as a primary Gazette text in this research pass — confirmed via a government-portal news article (xaydungchinhsach.chinhphu.vn) summarising this decree's own amending text. See the 10/2022/NĐ-CP entry's amended_by note for what it changes.
Decree amending Decree 08/2015/NĐ-CP guiding the Customs Law on customs procedures, inspection, supervision and control (2025)
In force · Decree · Effective date not confirmed
Not previously in this register. Per secondary summaries fetched this session, amends Điều 10, 11 (priority regime for businesses) and Điều 35 (on-spot import/export goods) of Nghị định 08/2015/NĐ-CP — none of which this article relies on (impact: none for this article's c8).
Decree amending Decree 111/2011/NĐ-CP on consular certification and consular legalisation
In force · Decree · Effective
Read only via a secondary summary (hethongphapluat.com); primary text not fetched. Amends Điều 9 of Decree 111/2011/NĐ-CP — see that entry.
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88/2020/NĐ-CP
Decree detailing and guiding implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Occupational Safety and Hygiene on compulsory occupational accident and disease insurance
In force · Decree · Effective date not confirmed
Not previously in the register. Current text of the amended clause read directly from Decree 158/2025/NĐ-CP's own Điều 43 (the amending decree quotes the replacement wording of Điều 2 khoản 1 in full).
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168/2017/NĐ-CP
Decree detailing certain articles of the Law on Tourism — Chương III (Điều 8–10) sets safety-measure duties for tourism products posing a risk to life/health
In force · Decree · Effective
NEW proposal from the 27/09/2026 coverage pass for da-nang-beach-swimming-safety (claim c27) — not yet in laws-proposed.json/laws.json; main should review before merging. Read directly from the primary signed Gazette PDF, page by page. Điều 8 lists the specific 'sản phẩm du lịch có nguy cơ ảnh hưởng đến tính mạng, sức khỏe' the safety duties apply to (paragliding/hot-air-balloon/parachute/high rope, off-road/mountain-climbing/canyon rope, diving/whitewater rafting/jet-ski/surfing towed by boat, cave/forest/mountain exploration) — ordinary sea swimming ('tắm biển') is NOT on this list, so Điều 9's rescue-plan/staffing/briefing duties bind organised commercial operators of one of those Điều 8 activities, not the public bathing area or individual swimmers. Do not merge this as if it were a general beach-safety/lifeguard-hours law for ordinary bathers.
Confirmed 27/09/2026 by reading the primary signed Official Gazette PDF directly, page by page as images (scanned, no text layer) at https://datafiles.chinhphu.vn/cpp/files/vbpq/2022/01/10-nd-2022.signed.pdf, pages 1-6 (Điều 1-8, incl. Điều 8 khoản 1: 'Nhà, đất: Mức thu là 0,5%.'). A further decree, 202/2026/NĐ-CP (issued 2026-06-08, effective from 2027-03-01, not yet in force as of this 2026-09-27 check), extends the 0% first-registration fee for battery electric vehicles and replaces Decree 51/2025/NĐ-CP (an interim EV-fee decree) — per press coverage only; neither touches the nhà/đất rate and neither is registered here as a separate entry since this article does not cite them.
Circular on animal quarantine (Ministry of Agriculture and Environment), incl. animals brought in by a traveller
In force · Circular · Effective
Primary PDF (text layer) read 27/09/2026 (growth-review §6 check). Điều 14 khoản 1: up to 2 animals carried by a person for pets/family/travel — declare at the border animal-quarantine office; checks: exporting-country quarantine certificate, clinical check, vaccination for animals not yet protected against dangerous infectious diseases. Điều 30 khoản 2 replaces 25/2016/TT-BNNPTNT, 35/2018, 09/2022, 04/2024, 28/2025/TT-BNNMT. Rabies is in the disease annex but the circular has no separate "rabies certificate required" line — do not write that as a quote.
Circular on the collection, payment, and management of fees and charges in veterinary work (incl. the animal/animal-product quarantine certificate fee and the clinical-examination fee schedule)
In force · Circular · Effective
Scanned PDF, no text layer — downloaded and OCR'd 27/09/2026 (tesseract + vie traineddata), then cross-checked against the page images directly (Mục I số 1 and Mục III số 1.1-1.6 rows read manually from the cropped table image, not just OCR text). Mục III's whole 'Kiểm tra lâm sàng động vật' table is priced per 'xe ô tô/xe chuyên dụng' (vehicle/specialised vehicle) for every animal category — looks built for bulk transport, not a single hand-carried pet; see research.json open_questions. No 2023-2026 replacement of the base circular found in web search beyond the temporary reduction circulars listed above.
Circular setting collection rates / exemptions for a list of 46 fees and charges, to support businesses and citizens (incl. two veterinary fees under 101/2020/TT-BTC)
In force · Circular · Effective
Điều 4 khoản 1: in force 01/7/2025 to 31/12/2026 (temporary — Điều 1 khoản 2 says the base circulars' full rates resume from 01/01/2027). Scanned PDF, OCR'd + manually read from page images 27/09/2026. Phụ lục STT 21: a) halves the animal/animal-product quarantine certificate fee under 101/2020/TT-BTC Mục I số 1; b) halves the veterinary-practice-certificate fee under 101/2020/TT-BTC Mục I số 2; c) halves ONLY the poultry ('gia cầm') clinical-exam fee under 101/2020/TT-BTC Mục III số 1.4 — does not mention Mục III số 1.6 (dogs/cats).
Da Nang People's Council resolution on the subjects, rates, and collection/management of civil-status fees (lệ phí hộ tịch) in Da Nang
In force · Resolution · Effective date not confirmed
Sets Da Nang's own civil-status fee schedule applied at commune-level People's Committees. Marriage registration, marriage re-registration, and paternity/maternity recognition with a foreign element are all charged the maximum 1,500,000 VND (matching the national Circular 179/2015/TT-BTC ceiling); domestic marriage registration (no foreign element) is 30,000 VND. Read from the resolution's own infographic (an image table) republished by the Da Nang city portal, verified by browser screenshot/zoom — the resolution's primary vbpl.vn / công báo text itself could not be fetched directly (renders only a JS loading page).
Da Nang People's Council resolution setting a 0-VND fee for administrative procedures (incl. civil-status fees) filed through the online public-service portal
In force · Resolution · Effective
Effective 21/12/2025 through 31/12/2027 (per the resolution's own text). Sets lệ phí hộ tịch (and several other fees: business registration, foreign-worker work permits, construction permits, land-use certificates) to 0 VND when the procedure is filed through the online dịch vụ công portal in Da Nang. Its own text says it supersedes (hết hiệu lực) Resolution 89/2023/NQ-HĐND of Da Nang and Resolution 18/2024/NQ-HĐND of the old Quảng Nam province on the same subject. Confirmed from the resolution's own text as republished (selectable text, not an image) by the Da Nang city portal — the primary vbpl.vn text was not fetched directly.
Decree detailing several articles and implementing measures of the Law on Civil Status
In force · Decree · Effective
Điều 30 (hồ sơ), Điều 31 (trình tự — Phòng Tư pháp cấp huyện, 10 ngày làm việc: this timeline/authority is now superseded in practice by Decree 120/2025/NĐ-CP moving the procedure to commune level with a 5–10 working-day timeline, see that entry) and Điều 32 (trao Giấy chứng nhận kết hôn) referenced via hethongphapluat.com text mirror and secondary summaries, checked 27/09/2026. Birth registration (27/09/2026): Điều 2 khoản 1 amended by 18/2026 (see amended_by); Điều 9 unchanged as far as found.
Decree detailing several articles and implementing measures of the Law on Vietnamese Nationality
In force · Decree · Effective
Điều 9 (xác định quốc tịch của trẻ em khi khai sinh, theo khoản 2 Điều 16 Luật Quốc tịch — see Law 24/2008/QH12 entry) read directly from the primary decree text via vanban.chinhphu.vn (tier gov). Replaces Decree 16/2020/NĐ-CP as the Nationality Law's implementing decree. A same-day Ministry of Justice circular (referenced by a provincial notice as 'Thông tư 12/2025/TT-BTP ngày 01/07/2025') may set the model declaration-form wording for Điều 9's written declarations, but its content could not be confirmed this pass — see open_questions in research.json.
Decree on the delegation of authority of the two-tier local government in the Ministry of Justice's state-management field (incl. civil-status registration at commune level)
In force · Decree · Effective
Điều 4: commune-level People's Committee (xã, phường, đặc khu) now holds the civil-status registration authority Law 60/2014/QH13 assigned to district level, including marriage registration with a foreign element (Điều 37 of that law). Same article sets the processing time: 5 working days from a complete valid dossier, up to 10 working days if verification is needed. Confirmed via xaydungchinhsach.chinhphu.vn (tier gov, official government policy portal); the Công báo page itself (congbao.chinhphu.vn) only exposed metadata (issued/effective dates), not the article text, when fetched directly. Full official title and issued/effective dates now confirmed directly from the Công báo Chính phủ document metadata page (congbao.chinhphu.vn/van-ban/nghi-dinh-so-120-2025-nd-cp-45062.htm) — matches what laws-proposed.json already recorded. The article text itself (Điều 4) is still not available in primary form: that Công báo page renders the document as a paginated ~15-page viewer, not extractable as plain text via fetch. The existing quote used in research.json (c1/c2, sourced from xaydungchinhsach.chinhphu.vn, tier gov) remains the best available quote — no better primary-text access was found this pass.
Điều 18 (procedure — both parties present), Điều 37 (pre-2025 district-level authority for foreign-element marriage) and Điều 38 (dossier, incl. medical certificate) quoted via hethongphapluat.com text mirror, checked 27/09/2026.
Điều 16 (nationality of a child with a Vietnamese and a stateless/foreign parent — khoản 1 unamended, khoản 2 amended, see amended_by) and Điều 17 (both parents stateless) quoted via hethongphapluat.com text mirror, checked 27/09/2026. This law was not previously in src/data/laws.json.
Circular issuing the national technical regulation on ambient environmental quality (issues QCVN 03/05/08/09/10:2023/BTNMT, incl. QCVN 05:2023/BTNMT on air quality)
In force · Circular · Effective
Issuing agency: Bộ Tài nguyên và Môi trường (pre-merger name); signed by Võ Tuấn Nhân. Attached QCVN 05:2023/BTNMT (national technical regulation on air quality) replaces QCVN 05:2013/BTNMT and QCVN 06:2009/BTNMT — quote confirmed directly from the regulation's own 'Lời nói đầu' (foreword). QCVN 05:2023/BTNMT's own Bảng 1 sets PM10 at 100 µg/Nm3 (24h) / 50 µg/Nm3 (year), and PM2.5 at 50 µg/Nm3 (24h, but 45 µg/Nm3 from 1/1/2026 per its own footnote) / 25 µg/Nm3 (year) — read directly from the primary regulation text (page images, no text layer) mirrored at a provincial DONRE site (sonnmt.langson.gov.vn). A fresh check on 27/09/2026 (web search for any circular amending or superseding 01/2023/TT-BTNMT or QCVN 05:2023/BTNMT in 2024-2026) found no amendment or replacement — the 1/1/2026 PM2.5 tightening is a footnote already built into the original 2023 table, not a later change. See open_questions in research.json for the still-unresolved exact table/point locator of that footnote and whether any later document has discussed or postponed it.
Circular of the Ministry of Health issuing the National Technical Regulation on Domestic Water Quality (QCVN 01-1:2024/BYT) and regulating inspection and monitoring of clean water quality used for daily-life purposes (replaces Thông tư 41/2018/TT-BYT and 26/2021/TT-BYT)
In force · Circular · Effective
PRIMARY TEXT NOW CONFIRMED (this session, 27/09/2026): read directly from the Cơ sở dữ liệu quốc gia về pháp luật (Bộ Tư pháp), vbpl.vn full-text page (tier document), not just secondary/press reports. Confirms: Điều 1 / Điều 2 khoản 2 / Điều 3 khoản 1 of QCVN 01-1:2024/BYT (identical scope, tap-water/bottled-water exclusion with minor rewording, and 'nước sạch' definition, vs the superseded 2018 QCVN — research/da-nang-tap-water/research.json c15-c17); Điều 5 khoản 1 điểm c (annual external-check floor, unchanged, now worded 'ít nhất' — c18); Điều 6 khoản 5 điểm b (provincial CDC remains external-check authority for suppliers ≥1.000m3/ngày đêm — c19; threshold now capacity-only, was '500 hộ gia đình hoặc 1.000m3' under the 2018 rule); Điều 5 khoản 1 điểm d (new: external-check body/CDC must itself publish ngoại kiểm results within 5 working days — c20); Điều 4 khoản 1 điểm d (nội kiểm publication by supplier within 3 working days, or a 20-day notice if no website — c21); Điều 7 (effective 1/7/2025, supersedes 41/2018/TT-BYT and 26/2021/TT-BYT — c22); Điều 9 (transitional: provinces must align/issue their own local QCVN by 31/12/2027 — c23). `url` was blank in research/da-nang-tap-water/laws-proposed.json pending this confirmation; this entry supplies it. Do not edit laws-proposed.json or src/data/laws.json directly from this file — main should merge via `npm run laws:merge`.
Decree detailing and guiding implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Health Insurance
In force · Decree · Effective
Read via the government policy portal's explainer article (tier gov), not the primary signed Gazette PDF directly — see open_questions in research.json. Sets the 4.5% health-insurance contribution rate (employer 3%, employee 1.5%) for a person under a labour contract, replacing the corresponding provision of Decree 146/2018/NĐ-CP per multiple secondary sources (not independently confirmed against this decree's own repeal article).
Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Health Insurance (2024)
In force · Law · Effective
Read via the government policy portal's full-text page (tier gov), not the primary signed Gazette PDF directly. Điều 12 khoản 1 điểm c (as amended): mandatory health-insurance participation for a foreign employee under a labour contract of 12 months or more, with the same 3 exceptions as the Law on Social Insurance's Điều 2 khoản 2 (intra-company transfer, retirement age at signing, treaty override). Effective 1 July 2025 per its own Điều 3 khoản 1.
Technical guidance on calculating and announcing Vietnam's Air Quality Index (VN_AQI)
In force · Decision · Effective
Issued by Tổng cục Môi trường (General Department of Environment), the environmental protection body under the former Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. Confirmed by reading the decision's own full text (mirrored at luatvietnam.vn, tier document): Điều 2 states 'Quyết định này có hiệu lực kể từ ngày ban hành và thay thế Quyết định 878/QĐ-TCMT ngày 01 tháng 7 năm 2011 của Tổng cục trưởng Tổng cục Môi trường về việc ban hành Sổ tay hướng dẫn tính toán chỉ số chất lượng không khí' — i.e. this decision itself supersedes only the 2011 handbook, and takes effect on its own issuance date (12/11/2019). A fresh check on 27/09/2026 (web search for any decision/circular replacing 1459/QĐ-TCMT itself, or a 'hướng dẫn AQI mới' from the post-merger Bộ Nông nghiệp và Môi trường) found no replacement or amendment; current legal-database mirrors (luatvietnam.vn, thuvienphapluat.vn) still index it as the unreplaced, current text, and a Ministry of Health-linked community air-quality advisory dated 20/01/2026 (UBND phường Hồng An, Hải Phòng, citing Sở Y tế Công văn 658/SYT-KSBT) still reproduces the identical 6-band AQI/colour scheme. However, its issuing agency (Tổng cục Môi trường) no longer exists under that name since the 2025 ministry merger creating the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment (Bộ Nông nghiệp và Môi trường) — this research still could not access a definitive legal-database record confirming whether the decision itself has been formally re-issued or re-attributed to a successor agency (see open_questions in research.json). Treat 'in_force' here as best-available and now more strongly corroborated (verified against the decision's own primary text, not just a derivative document), but not fully confirmed against a post-merger legal database.
Read via the government policy portal's full-text page (tier gov). Điều 2 khoản 1 defines "người lao động" (worker) as a Vietnamese citizen aged 15 or over with the capacity to work — unemployment insurance (Điều 31) is built on this same definition, so a foreign employee falls outside its scope. Replaces the old Employment Law 38/2013/QH13 from 1 January 2026 (per secondary reporting; this article does not cite 38/2013/QH13 directly, so it is not separately registered here).
Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of 15 laws in the agriculture and environment field
In force · Law · Effective
Not read as a primary text — added only to register the impact:'none' cross-reference on the Land Law entry above (this research found no confirmation it touches the Land Law itself; the 15 named laws per baochinhphu.vn's own coverage are all in the agriculture/environment field).
Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Land No. 31/2024/QH15, the Law on Housing No. 27/2023/QH15, the Law on Real Estate Business No. 29/2023/QH15 and the Law on Credit Institutions No. 32/2024/QH15
In force · Law · Effective
Not read as a primary text in this research pass — only its portal metadata page was fetched (confirms number, title, issue date) plus secondary press coverage (luatvietnam.vn, ngkt.mofa.gov.vn) describing its content: it moved forward the effective date of all four named laws from 2025-01-01 to 2024-08-01 (except khoản 10 Điều 255 and khoản 4 Điều 260 of the Land Law, kept at 2025-01-01), and separately amended khoản 1 Điều 197 of the Housing Law, khoản 1 Điều 82 of the Real Estate Business Law and khoản 2 Điều 209 of the Credit Institutions Law. None of the articles reported as touched are among the foreign-individual housing-ownership provisions (Điều 16-22 of the Housing Law, Điều 4/Điều 3 khoản 21 of the Land Law) this research's claims rely on. Recommend a future research pass confirm this by reading the primary Gazette text directly if this law is ever cited by number in the article body.
Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control and the Law on Dikes
In force · Law · Effective
Not previously in this register. Not independently read in full during this research — per secondary sources (thuvienphapluat.vn summaries, not fetched directly) it raises the number of natural-disaster types covered by Law 33/2013/QH13 from 19 to 22, among other changes. Whether it specifically amends Điều 34 (households/individuals obligations) is unconfirmed — see the open_questions entry in research/da-nang-typhoon-season/research.json.
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09/2026/QH16
Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Personal Income Tax, the Law on Value-Added Tax, the Law on Corporate Income Tax and the Law on Excise Tax (2026)
In force · Law · Effective
Điều 1 of this law amends only khoản 1 Điều 7 of Luật Thuế thu nhập cá nhân số 109/2025/QH15 (the revenue-threshold exemption for resident business individuals); Điều 2–4 amend the VAT law, the CIT law and the excise-tax rate table for electric vehicles, none of which this article cites. Confirmed 27/09/2026 by reading the primary signed Gazette PDF in full (2 pages, has readable text) at https://datafiles.chinhphu.vn/cpp/files/vbpq/2026/5/09-qh.signed.pdf. Effective 2026-04-24, except Điều 1, 2 and 3 which apply from 2026-01-01 (per the law).
Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Vietnamese Nationality
In force · Law · Effective
Điều 1 khoản 4 (new khoản 2 Điều 16 of Law 24/2008/QH12 — see that entry) confirmed verbatim via a full-text mirror (nhansu.vn) reproducing the Official Gazette text; also amends dual-nationality recognition (Điều 1 khoản 1, a new khoản 8 to Điều 13/general provisions — not used in this article) and several naturalisation/reversion articles not relevant to birth registration. Effective 1 July 2025 per Điều 2 khoản 1 of this Law ('Luật này có hiệu lực thi hành từ ngày 01 tháng 7 năm 2025').
Law on Animal Health (incl. Điều 44 requirements for imported animals, Điều 46 import-quarantine registration duty, Điều 47 content of import quarantine)
In force · Law · Effective date not confirmed
Read as the consolidated text (Văn bản hợp nhất 80/2026/VBHN-VPQH, Văn phòng Quốc hội) via pdftotext (has a text layer). Not previously in laws.json or laws-proposed.json for this article — added because the growth-review research only cited Circular 01/2026/TT-BNNMT's Điều 14 (the traveller exception), not the Law-level base obligation it implements. Điều 44 khoản 1 = base requirement (health + exporting-country quarantine certificate); Điều 46 khoản 1 = base duty to register import quarantine with the Ministry; Điều 46 khoản 4 delegates the detailed procedure to the Minister, which Circular 01/2026/TT-BNNMT's Điều 10/11/14 implement.
Base Law on Health Insurance, in force since 1 July 2009. This article cites Điều 2 khoản 1 (definition of 'bảo hiểm y tế', claim c3) and khoản 7 (definition of 'hộ gia đình', claim c18) from this base law via a legal-database consolidated-text mirror (luatvietnam.vn) — this research could not independently confirm either clause against a primary Official Gazette PDF/DOC: every direct fetch of the Gazette's own downloads for Văn bản hợp nhất 22/VBHN-VPQH 2025 (via congbao.chinhphu.vn and g7.cdnchinhphu.vn) returned a certificate error, and vbpl.vn's detail pages redirected to its homepage on every attempt in this session (browser automation) — see open_questions in research.json. Điều 12, Điều 22 and Điều 26 as currently in force are cited under 51/2024/QH15 instead (see that entry in src/data/laws.json), since this research's fetches indicate that law replaced/amended them.
Confirmed 27/09/2026 by reading the primary signed Official Gazette PDF (part 1 of 3) directly, page by page as images (scanned, no text layer) at https://datafiles.chinhphu.vn/cpp/files/vbpq/2024/9/31-2024-qh15_1.pdf, pages 5-9 (Điều 3 khoản 21: định nghĩa Giấy chứng nhận; Điều 4: Người sử dụng đất, đầy đủ 7 nhóm).
Điều 8 (conditions to marry: age 20/18, voluntary, civil act capacity, not a prohibited case; state does not recognise same-sex marriage) and Điều 5 khoản 2 (prohibited cases: sham marriage, child/forced/deceptive marriage, bigamy, direct-line blood relatives) quoted via hethongphapluat.com text mirror, checked 27/09/2026. No amendment found for this law in this research pass.
Confirmed by reading the primary Công báo PDF directly (it has a text layer, no OCR needed). Điều 13 khoản 2 điểm i, Điều 15 khoản 4 điểm c and điểm d are the source for this article's claims c1-c3 on subscriber-information accuracy and the ban on registering a subscription for someone else. This session found no amendment or repeal affecting these specific articles as of 27/09/2026.
Ordinance of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Ordinance on Foreign Exchange (28/2005/PL-UBTVQH11)
In force · Law · Effective
Filed under kind 'law' for the same reason as 28/2005/PL-UBTVQH11 (it is itself a Pháp lệnh). Read the scanned signed PDF page by page via the Read tool.
Ordinance on Foreign Exchange (Standing Committee of the National Assembly)
In force · Law · Effective
Filed under kind 'law' — technically a Pháp lệnh (Ordinance) of the National Assembly Standing Committee, ranked as law-equivalent; the schema has no closer bucket. Read via textutil conversion of the government portal's .doc file (not an image scan).
Decision establishing the Son Tra Peninsula and Da Nang Tourist Beaches Management Board (Ban quản lý bán đảo Sơn Trà và các bãi biển du lịch Đà Nẵng)
In force · Decision · Effective date not confirmed
Cited only on the Management Board's own official "Giới thiệu" page as its founding instrument — the decision's own full text was not located/fetched, so its amendment history is unverified. status:in_force is inferred from the Board still actively operating and publishing under this mandate as of 2026, after the 1 Jul 2025 Đà Nẵng–Quảng Nam merger, not from reading the decision itself. Do not cite this number for anything beyond "this is the Board's founding decision" without further verification.
Government Decree detailing several articles of the Law on Civil Defence (Luật Phòng thủ dân sự) — incl. the 112 emergency call-centre system
In force · Decree · Effective
Điều 3 (khoản 1, 2, 4) is the source for this article's claims c6-c8 on the 112 number: what it receives, that it links to 113/114/115, and that calls to 112 are free. Confirmed by reading the primary signed PDF (a scan) directly, page by page as images.
Not previously in this register. Điều 34 khoản 2 (obligations of households/individuals) quoted via the official English-translation mirror (english.luatvietnam.vn) for research/da-nang-typhoon-season/research.json (claims c24, c25) — repeated attempts to fetch the Vietnamese primary text failed in this research session (thuvienphapluat.vn returned HTTP 403, a vbpl.vn PDF link 404'd, a provincial .gov.vn mirror was unreachable via DNS). Treat the Vietnamese original wording as unverified pending a direct read.
Prime Minister's Decision on natural-disaster forecasting, warning, information dissemination and natural-disaster risk levels
In force · Decree · Effective
Not previously in this register. Filed under kind 'decree' because the register schema has no closer bucket for a Thủ tướng 'Quyết định' (same convention as the existing 80/2013/QĐ-TTg entry). Read the full primary signed PDF directly, page by page as images (pdftotext extracted almost no text from it — it is effectively a scan with no usable text layer). Confirmed: Điều 42 sets the storm/tropical-depression risk-level criteria (levels 3-5 only — no level 1 or 2 applies to this hazard); Điều 6 khoản 1 names Tổng cục Khí tượng Thủy văn (Bộ Tài nguyên và Môi trường) as the body that issues storm/tropical-depression bulletins and risk-level announcements; Điều 9 sets the conditions for each bulletin type (tin bão gần Biển Đông / trên Biển Đông / khẩn cấp / trên đất liền); Điều 11 lists required bulletin content (position, intensity, direction, speed); Điều 13 khoản 2 sets bulletin frequency (8 bulletins/day for an emergency storm bulletin, at fixed hours). A web search for 2024-2026 amendments or a replacement found nothing, but this was not an exhaustive Công báo scan — see the open_questions entry in research/da-nang-typhoon-season/research.json.
Circular further amending Circular 79/2024/TT-BCA (as already amended by Circular 13/2025/TT-BCA) on vehicle registration certificates and licence plates (Ministry of Public Security)
In force · Circular · Effective
New entry — not previously in laws.json or laws-proposed.json as its own top-level record (only referenced inside 79/2024/TT-BCA's amended_by array). Read the full primary signed PDF directly from Công báo (congbaocdn.chinhphu.vn), Công báo số 887+888/15-7-2025. Điều 1 khoản 2 điểm b replaces khoản 4 Điều 4 of Thông tư 79/2024/TT-BCA with: 'Công an cấp xã đăng ký xe ô tô, xe máy chuyên dùng, xe mô tô của tổ chức, cá nhân trong nước có trụ sở, cư trú trong tỉnh, thành phố (trừ xe có nguồn gốc tịch thu và các loại xe quy định tại khoản 1 Điều này).' — this is the in-force wording behind claims c6/c16 in research/register-motorbike-vietnam-foreigner/research.json ('any commune police station within the same province/city'), now backed by a verbatim primary quote (c16) instead of only a paraphrased consolidated-text quote (c6, flagged DO NOT CITE). Also removes the old 175cm3-engine-size exclusion that Điều 4 khoản 4 originally had in the as-issued 79/2024 text — not independently re-verified against khoản 1 Điều 4's current wording this session; flag for a future pass if an article depends on engine-size jurisdiction splits.
Circular of the State Bank of Vietnam amending and supplementing a number of articles of Circular 17/2024/TT-NHNN on opening and using payment accounts at payment service providers
In force · Circular · Effective
Read the full primary text via the Official Gazette's downloadable DOC file (selectable text, not a scan; PDF also available from the same Gazette page). Effective 2025-08-31 in general (Điều 15 khoản 1), except: Điều 4 (account-naming rule, new điểm c1 khoản 1 Điều 13 of Thông tư 17/2024) effective 2026-03-01 (khoản 2); and Điều 5, Điều 9, khoản 2/khoản 3 Điều 10 (KYC verification procedure incl. the new foreign-individual-not-present carve-out, fraud-signal criteria, customer-info update duties) effective 2025-12-01 (khoản 3) — both thresholds have already passed as of this 2026-09-27 check, so the whole Circular is now in force with no still-pending provisions. No further web search turned up any later circular amending Circular 17/2024/TT-NHNN beyond this one; a luatvietnam.vn consolidated-text (văn bản hợp nhất) page for Thông tư 17/2024/TT-NHNN + 25/2025/TT-NHNN was found (title only, not itself fetched as primary), consistent with 25/2025/TT-NHNN being the only amendment to date.
Circular of the State Bank of Vietnam regulating the carrying of foreign-currency cash and Vietnamese-dong cash by individuals on exit and entry
In force · Circular · Effective
Not previously in this register. Read the primary text via the Chính phủ legal-document portal (vanban.chinhphu.vn), confirmed structure Điều 1-7: Điều 2 khoản 1 điểm a/b sets the 5,000 USD and 15,000,000 VND declaration thresholds; Điều 3 khoản 2 sets the 12-month re-export rule; Điều 4 covers depositing cash into an FX payment account; Điều 5 khoản 1 điểm a covers the bank certificate (as amended by 20/2022/TT-NHNN, see above); Điều 6 is violation handling; Điều 7 is the effective-date clause.
Circular of the State Bank of Vietnam regulating the carrying of gold by individuals on exit or entry
In force · Circular · Effective
Not previously in this register. Read via the official English-translation mirror (luatvietnam.vn); confirmed Điều 2 khoản 1 (gold-bar/raw-gold ban) and khoản 2 (300g jewellery declaration threshold) apply to passport holders (ordinary travellers). A separate, out-of-scope Điều covers Vietnamese citizens permanently emigrating (gold bars/raw gold 300g-1kg declarable, 1kg+ needs an SBV permit).
Circular of the State Bank of Vietnam regulating the opening and use of payment accounts at payment service providers
In force · Circular · Effective
Read the full original (28-page) scanned PDF page by page via the Read tool (not searchable text) — datafiles.chinhphu.vn copy. Confirmed still in force, not repealed or replaced as of 2026-09-27. Also re-read pages 6-8 (Điều 10-13) directly as images to confirm Điều 11 (Đối tượng mở tài khoản thanh toán) and the exact original wording of Điều 12 khoản 2 điểm c/khoản 6, cross-checked against 25/2025/TT-NHNN's amending text.
Circular on implementation of electricity retail prices
In force · Circular · Effective
Replaces Circular 16/2014/TT-BCT and its amending circulars (25/2018, 06/2021, 09/2023/TT-BCT), EXCEPT for a short list of provisions that continue transitionally (Điều 20 khoản 1) until the next average retail price adjustment after Decision 14/2025/QĐ-TTg took effect (29/5/2025) — including, critically, điểm c khoản 4 Điều 10 of the OLD Circular 16/2014/TT-BCT (the students/workers tenant-electricity rule, as last amended by 25/2018 and 09/2023/TT-BCT). UPDATE (27/09/2026): downloaded and OCR'd the Công báo primary PDF (congbao.chinhphu.vn/van-ban/thong-tu-so-60-2025-tt-bct-46756/60185.htm — added as source tt60-2025-congbao, tier document, in research.json). Confirmed renter-specific rules at Điều 12 khoản 5: điểm a) one electricity contract per rental address, landlord provides tenant residency info — already in force since 2/12/2025; điểm b) tenant-household case, one tariff unit per household — already in force; điểm c) students/workers case (tier-2 default for sub-12-month leases, 4-person ratio, and 'landlord's total collection may not exceed the seller's bill') — NOT YET in force (Điều 21 khoản 1 explicitly delays only điểm c khoản 5 Điều 12 until the next average-price adjustment described above). Until then, the OLD Điều 10 khoản 4 điểm c of Circular 16/2014/TT-BCT (as amended by 25/2018 and 09/2023/TT-BCT) continues to apply — and that text uses tariff TIER 3 (101–200 kWh, 2,380 VND/kWh), not tier 2, for the sub-12-month default; the 4-person ratio (1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 1 full unit) is otherwise identical in both versions. The 'total collection may not exceed the seller's bill' safeguard is NEW in this circular's (not-yet-effective) điểm c and has no equivalent in the old, currently-operative text. A draft amendment to this circular (unrelated — about peak/off-peak hour definitions per Decision 963/QĐ-BCT) was reported in the press around May 2026 (dự thảo, still not issued as of the research date).
Circular on the issuance and revocation of vehicle registration certificates and licence plates for motor vehicles and specialised-use motorcycles (Ministry of Public Security)
In force · Circular · Effective
New entry — not previously in src/data/laws.json. Read the primary text directly (pages 1-20 of the linked PDF, a clean text-layer document, not a scan) for this article's register-motorbike-vietnam-foreigner research. Key articles used: Điều 3 (registration principle: register where you reside; foreigner's plate tied to residence-card number), Điều 4 khoản 4 (Công an cấp xã registers motorbikes), Điều 6 khoản 5 (30-day seller thu-hồi duty on ownership transfer), Điều 7 (processing-time table), Điều 8/9/10/11/12/13 (first-registration dossier, incl. Điều 10 khoản 2 điểm b foreigner residence-card requirement), Điều 15-17 (sang-tên/ownership-change procedure). Replaces Circular 24/2023/TT-BCA in full (per its own commencement clause, not independently re-verified this session since this article does not cite the old circular).
Circular on the rates, collection, remittance and exemption of vehicle registration and licence-plate fees (Ministry of Finance)
In force · Circular · Effective
Primary signed PDF incl. Phụ lục read 27/09/2026. Zone II (incl. Da Nang): 105,000 VND for a first ("cấp mới") motorbike certificate + plate (Mục I.4); ownership transfer = "cấp đổi chứng nhận đăng ký xe kèm theo biển số" at 70,000 VND nationwide (Mục II; Điều 4 khoản 4 điểm a). Replaces 60/2023/TT-BTC from 1/1/2026.
Decision of the Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam on deploying safety and security solutions in online payments and bank-card payments (biometric authentication)
In force · Decree · Effective
Technically a Thống đốc NHNN 'Quyết định' (an individual administrative decision), not a Nghị định — filed under kind 'decree' because the register schema has no closer bucket (same pattern as 80/2013/QĐ-TTg already in laws.json). Replaces Decision 630/QĐ-NHNN (2017). Read the full 12-page scanned signed PDF (hosted by the Vietnam Banks Association, vnba.org.vn) page by page via the Read tool; could not locate an sbv.gov.vn-hosted copy.
Decision on electricity selling prices (household retail tariff table)
In force · Decision · Effective
Ministry of Industry and Trade decision setting the average retail price (2,204.0655 VND/kWh excl. VAT) and the six-tier household ('sinh hoạt') tariff table (1,984–3,460 VND/kWh, excl. VAT). Still cited as the current tariff by a 14 May 2026 Government-portal news article (baochinhphu.vn), and by EVN's own official 'Giá điện' page as of the research date. No later replacement decision found as of 27/09/2026, though a separate Decision 963/QĐ-BCT (22/04/2026) since introduced time-of-use (peak/off-peak) periods for a different customer segment, not a new household tariff table. UPDATE (27/09/2026): Decision 14/2025/QĐ-TTg (Prime Minister, issued 29/5/2025 — after this decision, 9/5/2025) sets a new retail-tariff STRUCTURE (reported by secondary sources as 5 household tiers instead of 6), but per Circular 60/2025/TT-BCT's own primary text (Điều 21 khoản 1 — see 60/2025/TT-BCT entry below), that new structure only takes effect from the NEXT average retail price adjustment after 14/2025/QĐ-TTg took effect. No such adjustment has been issued as of 27/09/2026 (see 278/2026/NĐ-CP entry — that decree changed only the adjustment MECHANISM/timing, not the price), so this decision's 6-tier table appears to still be the one in force today. Re-check on every future review — a routine EVN price adjustment would flip this.
Decree amending and supplementing a number of articles of decrees in the field of housing and real estate business (amends Decrees 95/2024, 96/2024, 98/2024/NĐ-CP)
In force · Decree · Effective
New entry — not previously in src/data/laws.json or in this article's laws-proposed.json. Chương I amends Decree 96/2024/NĐ-CP (Real Estate Business Law decree); Chương II (Điều 13-26) amends Decree 95/2024/NĐ-CP (Housing Law decree) — see that entry's amended_by note for exactly which articles; Chương III amends Decree 98/2024/NĐ-CP (apartment-building renovation/rebuilding decree). Confirmed by reading the primary signed Gazette PDF directly, page by page as images (scanned, no text layer).
Decree detailing a number of articles of the Law on Housing
In force · Decree · Effective
Confirmed 27/09/2026 by reading the primary signed Official Gazette PDF directly, page by page as images (scanned, no text layer) at https://datafiles.chinhphu.vn/cpp/files/vbpq/2024/7/95-cp.signed.pdf, pages 3-10 (Chương II, Điều 3-8: giấy tờ chứng minh, khu vực quốc phòng an ninh, tiêu chí quy đổi dân số/số lượng nhà ở, thủ tục gia hạn, quản lý sở hữu). No amending or replacing decree found as of this date. Re-checked 27/09/2026 for buy-apartment-da-nang-foreigner research beyond the existing laws.json entry's original check — found Decree 54/2026/NĐ-CP had amended Điều 4 and Điều 5 (see amended_by above), which the existing laws.json entry (amended_by: []) does not yet reflect.
Decree detailing and guiding implementation of the Law on Social Insurance on compulsory social insurance
In force · Decree · Effective
Read the full 60-page Official Gazette PDF directly (has a real text layer). Điều 43: amends Decree 88/2020/NĐ-CP (adds foreign employees to occupational accident/disease insurance subjects) and Decree 58/2020/NĐ-CP (sets the 0.5%/0.3% employer contribution rate into that fund, covering foreign employees). Điều 44 khoản 2: replaces Decree 115/2015/NĐ-CP and Decree 143/2018/NĐ-CP (the prior decree specifically on compulsory social insurance for foreign employees) in full, effective 1 July 2025.
Decree detailing and providing measures to implement the Customs Law on customs procedures, inspection, supervision and control
In force · Decree · Effective date not confirmed
Not previously in this register. This article's claim c8 (a traveller with no excess baggage needs no customs declaration at all) is sourced from a baochinhphu.vn article citing this decree in general, without a specific Điều/khoản number — see open_questions in research.json.
Decree on administrative penalties in the electricity sector, hydropower dam safety, and energy conservation and efficiency
In force · Decree · Effective
Replaces Decree 134/2013/NĐ-CP (as amended by 17/2022/NĐ-CP). Sets a 20–30 million VND fine for a landlord who charges a tenant for electricity above the regulated household retail price, plus a remedial measure requiring the landlord to return the excess collected. UPDATE (27/09/2026): downloaded and OCR'd the Công báo primary PDF directly (congbaocdn.chinhphu.vn/.../469331-...signed.pdf) — CONFIRMED: this is exactly Điều 13 khoản 7 ('Phạt tiền từ 20.000.000 đồng đến 30.000.000 đồng đối với người cho thuê nhà thu tiền điện của người thuê nhà cao hơn quy định...'), matching what fdvn.vn and gocnhinphaply.nguoiduatin.vn had cited — no longer an open question. The refund remedy is Điều 13 khoản 11 điểm c, also confirmed verbatim ('Người cho thuê nhà phải hoàn trả cho người thuê nhà số tiền đã thu thừa cộng với lãi suất do hai bên thỏa thuận trong hợp đồng'). Per Điều 4 khoản 3 điểm b, Điều 13 is NOT among the articles the decree marks as organization-specific, so this 20–30 million band is the individual-level fine; the decree contains no general 'x2 for organizations' clause anywhere in its text (checked — no 'gấp 02 lần' phrasing found), so it does not itself state a separate organizational amount for this act. A separate, lower 3–5 million VND fine in the same decree (Điều 13 khoản 2 điểm c) covers a different violation (landlord not reporting a drop in occupant count, or misdeclaring occupants to inflate the quota) — do not conflate with the 20–30 million VND overcharging fine. Also noted in passing: this decree's own preamble cites 'Luật Điện lực số 61/2024/QH15 được sửa đổi, bổ sung bởi Luật số 94/2025/QH15' as legal basis, but 94/2025/QH15 independently checks out as the unrelated Atomic Energy Law in every other source found — possible drafting-error in the decree's preamble, doesn't affect any claim used here, flagged in research.json open_questions for a future sanity check.
Decree on the compulsory social-insurance contribution rate into the Occupational Accident and Occupational Disease Insurance Fund
In force · Decree · Effective date not confirmed
Not previously in the register. Current text of the amended clause read directly from Decree 158/2025/NĐ-CP's own Điều 43 (the amending decree quotes the replacement wording of Điều 4 khoản 1 in full). This research did not independently fetch Điều 5 of this decree (the conditions for the 0.3% reduced rate) — see open_questions in research.json.
Government Decree detailing several articles and implementation measures of the Law on Telecommunications (registration/authentication/handling of mobile ground-network subscribers)
In force · Decree · Effective
Chương I Mục 3 (Điều 16-25) is the source for this article's claims c4-c12: the 3 registration forms and the 3-SIM online-registration cap (Điều 16), the foreigner passport requirement (Điều 17 khoản 1 điểm b), the first-3-vs-4th-onward registration rule (Điều 21), that service is only provided after full registration and authentication (Điều 20), and the 5/15/15/5-day notice-suspend-suspend-terminate sequence for non-compliant subscriber info (Điều 25 khoản 1). Confirmed by reading the primary signed PDF directly, page by page as images (170-page scan, no text layer). Coverage-verify pass, 27/09/2026: also confirmed Nghị định 15/2026/NĐ-CP (see amended_by) does not touch these articles. Second coverage-verify pass, same day (main review): re-read Điều 18 khoản 2 điểm a/b/c directly from the primary PDF (page 16 of 170) — wording matches the secondary mirror used for the first-pass claim c23 exactly for điểm b, and is fuller for điểm c (includes video-call technical minimums the mirror omitted); c23 marked 'DO NOT CITE — mirror' and superseded by claim c27, now sourced to this primary read.
Replaces the 2004 Electricity Law (28/2004/QH11, amended 2012/2018/2022/2023). Điều 50 caps the retail electricity price at the bracket/tariff structure set by the Minister of Industry and Trade — the base rule behind why a landlord cannot simply charge whatever they want. Confirmed via xaydungchinhsach.chinhphu.vn (tier gov, chinhphu.vn policy portal).
Confirmed 27/09/2026 by reading the primary signed Official Gazette PDF directly, page by page as images (scanned, no text layer) at https://datafiles.chinhphu.vn/cpp/files/vbpq/2024/01/luat27.pdf, pages 8-22 (Điều 6-22: sở hữu nhà ở, Mục 3 'Sở hữu nhà ở tại Việt Nam của tổ chức, cá nhân nước ngoài', Điều 16-21). No later amendment touching Điều 16-22 found as of this date.
Read the full 88-page Official Gazette PDF directly (has a real text layer, not a scan). Điều 2 khoản 2: mandatory social-insurance participation and 3 exceptions for foreign employees. Điều 7, Điều 31, Điều 32, Điều 33, Điều 34: reference level, salary base/cap, contribution rates. Điều 70 khoản 2: one-time withdrawal grounds specific to foreign employees. Điều 13: employer responsibilities. Điều 141 khoản 13: reference level equals the base salary until the base salary is abolished. Replaces the old Law on Social Insurance 58/2014/QH13 (per Điều 141 khoản 12's transitional reference) — that superseded law was not independently re-registered here since this article does not cite it directly.
Prime Minister's decision on the structure of the retail electricity tariff
In force · Decision · Effective
Sets the retail-tariff STRUCTURE (percentage-of-average-price framework per customer group); press/secondary sources report it reduces the household tariff from 6 to 5 progressive tiers, replacing Decision 28/2014/QĐ-TTg. Could not get a text-layer PDF of this decision itself (datafiles.chinhphu.vn copy is a scanned/no-OCR PDF) — the '5 tiers' detail is press/blog-sourced only, flagged in research.json open_questions. Its existence, date, and role ARE confirmed from a document-tier source: Circular 60/2025/TT-BCT's own primary text repeatedly ties its own delayed provisions (Điều 12 khoản 5 điểm c) and its transitional continuations (Điều 20) to 'ngày thực hiện điều chỉnh mức giá bán lẻ điện bình quân gần nhất sau ngày Quyết định số 14/2025/QĐ-TTg có hiệu lực thi hành' — i.e. this decision only takes practical effect at the next average retail price adjustment, which had not occurred as of 27/09/2026 (see 1279/QĐ-BCT and 278/2026/NĐ-CP entries).
National Assembly Resolution on a number of mechanisms and policies to remove difficulties and obstacles in the organisation of implementation of the Law on Land
In force · Resolution · Effective
Re-checked 27/09/2026 for this article (which relies on Land Law Điều 4/c24, an area the existing src/data/laws.json entry flags this Resolution's impact on as 'unknown'). Fetched the same gov-tier source and searched it for 'nhà ở', 'sở hữu nhà ở', 'cá nhân nước ngoài', 'tổ chức nước ngoài', and Điều 16-22 of the Housing Law — none found; the Resolution's own scope is land acquisition/compensation, land-price-list use, land-use-right registration/Certificate issuance and land subdivision/consolidation, which does not overlap Điều 4 (người sử dụng đất) or the foreign-individual housing-ownership provisions this article's claims rely on. This check used a WebFetch summary of the source's rendered text rather than a full manual page-by-page read of the entire Resolution, so treat as reasonably confident rather than certain — recommend the maintainer of src/data/laws.json consider upgrading that entry's impact field from 'unknown' to 'none' on this basis.
Resolution applying/repealing culture, sport and tourism legal-normative resolutions of the former Da Nang City People's Council and former Quảng Nam Province People's Council, following the administrative-unit merger
In force · Resolution · Effective date not confirmed
Only the meta-description summary of this page was fetched (full article body did not load in this session) — confirms culture/sport/tourism-sector resolutions of both former localities continue to apply post-merger until the unified City People's Council amends/replaces/revokes them, but this page does not itself list which specific beach-management instruments are kept or repealed. Useful as general evidence of legal continuity after the 1 Jul 2025 merger, not as a beach-specific rule.
Currently governs work-permit conditions, procedure (Chapter II exemption confirmation, Chapter III work permit issuance/renewal), validity (max 2 years) and revocation for foreign workers in Vietnam. Replaces Decree 152/2020/NĐ-CP (as amended by Decree 70/2023/NĐ-CP) in full — per its own Điều 35 khoản 2. Confirmed by reading the primary signed PDF directly (it is a scanned document with no text layer; read page-by-page as images, not OCR software).
Decree on the expulsion sanction, measures for temporary custody and escort of violators in administrative procedure, and management of foreigners violating Vietnamese law during expulsion procedures
In force · Decree · Effective
Governs expulsion/deportation PROCEDURE mechanics (temporary custody, escort, management of foreigners pending deportation) — does not touch the overstay fine amounts themselves, which remain in Decree 282/2025/NĐ-CP Art. 21 (amended by 347/2026/NĐ-CP, which left Art. 21 untouched — see existing register entry). Art. 10 khoản 4: if a violator lacks the financial capacity to pay an administrative fine, the deportation decision can be executed immediately instead of first pursuing fine enforcement. The primary Official Gazette PDF is a scan with no extractable text layer; this entry and the underlying claim (research/vietnam-overstay-fines/research.json claim c8) rest on a provincial police portal (congan.nghean.gov.vn, gov tier) plus a legal-database English full-text mirror (english.luatvietnam.vn), not a direct read of the primary text — the English mirror renders Art. 10.4 with an added 'necessary for national security/social order' condition that the police-portal summary omits; flagged as open_question in research.json rather than resolved.
Government Resolution applying e-visas to citizens of all countries/territories and designating e-visa border gates
In force · Resolution · Effective
Replaced Resolutions 79/NQ-CP (2020) and 60/NQ-CP (2022). Original Art. 2 list had 42 gates (13 air, 16 land, 13 sea); the live evisa.gov.vn/instruction page now lists more gates than 127+389 combined, so a further amending instrument may exist that this research did not locate.
Government Resolution on 45-day unilateral visa exemption for 12 countries (2025–2028)
In force · Resolution · Effective
Điều 3 of the resolution's own text ends Resolutions 32/NQ-CP (15/3/2022) and 128/NQ-CP (14/8/2023) as of 15/3/2025; confirmed against the full Điều 1-3 text via a document-tier mirror.
Not previously in this register. Điều 154 lists 9 statutory categories of foreign worker not subject to a work permit (owners/board members above a Government-set capital threshold, short international-org/NGO postings, sub-3-month service pitches or emergency technical fixes, licensed foreign lawyers, treaty cases, a catch-all for 'other Government-set cases', and a foreigner married to a Vietnamese citizen). Decree 219/2025/NĐ-CP Điều 7 operationalises/expands the khoản 9 catch-all into 15 further points.
Prime Minister's Decision on a number of special mechanisms and policies for Phu Quoc island, Kien Giang province (visa-exemption article)
In force · Decree · Effective date not confirmed
Technically a Thu tuong 'Quyet dinh', not a Nghi dinh — filed under kind 'decree' because the register schema has no closer bucket. Grants a 30-day visa exemption for anyone entering Phu Quoc island directly, separate from the 44/NQ-CP and 229/NQ-CP country lists. A 2019 press report (cand.vn) says the Ministry of Public Security proposed writing this policy into Law 47/2014/QH13 via the 51/2019/QH14 amendment; unconfirmed whether this Decision was formally repealed once that passed, or which article of the amended law now carries it — see vietnam-visa-exemption research open_questions.
Replaced by Law 109/2025/QH15 from 2026-07-01 (per Điều 29 khoản 3 of 109/2025/QH15: business-income and wage/salary provisions for resident individuals specifically cease to apply from the 2026 tax period). The clause also lists Laws 26/2012/QH13, 71/2014/QH13, 31/2024/QH15, 48/2024/QH15, 56/2025/QH15, 71/2025/QH15 and 93/2025/QH15 as the amendments this law had received; this research did not individually re-verify each of those since 04/2007/QH12 (as amended) is now fully superseded.
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09/2023/TT-BCT
Circular amending and supplementing Circular 16/2014/TT-BCT and Circular 25/2018/TT-BCT on implementation of electricity selling prices
Its Điều 2 khoản 2 last amended điểm c khoản 4 Điều 10 of Circular 16/2014/TT-BCT (the students/workers tenant-electricity rule — 12-month/residence-registration condition, tier-3 default for sub-12-month leases at 101–200 kWh, and the 4-person = 1 household-unit ratio with 1/4-1/2-3/4 fractions). Formally superseded by Circular 60/2025/TT-BCT (02/12/2025), but per that circular's own Điều 20 khoản 1 điểm d transitional clause, THIS exact wording continues to be the operative rule until the next average retail price adjustment after Decision 14/2025/QĐ-TTg took effect (29/5/2025) — which had not happened as of 27/09/2026. Quoted verbatim in research.json claim c17, downloaded and OCR'd directly from the Công báo primary PDF. TRANSITIONAL (main 27/09/2026): Circular 60/2025/TT-BCT Điều 20 khoản 1 điểm đ keeps point c clause 4 Article 10 of Circular 16/2014 (as amended by 25/2018 and 09/2023 — tenant electricity, tier 3 default) applying until TT60 Điều 12.5.c takes effect (TT60 Điều 21 khoản 1). Articles should cite TT60 Điều 20, not these numbers, because the gate treats replaced instruments as not current.
Decree amending decrees on administrative penalties in tax/invoices, customs, insurance/lottery business, public-asset management, thrift practice, national reserves, state treasury and accounting/independent audit (2021)
Not previously in this register. Its customs-related amendments to Nghị định 128/2020/NĐ-CP ceased to have separate effect once 169/2026/NĐ-CP replaced 128/2020/NĐ-CP wholesale from 1/7/2026 (per sources fetched this session, which describe 169/2026/NĐ-CP as replacing 'Nghị định 128/2020/NĐ-CP và 102/2021/NĐ-CP' together).
Repealed in full by Decree 158/2025/NĐ-CP Điều 44 khoản 2 điểm a, effective 1 July 2025 (same commencement date as Decree 158/2025/NĐ-CP itself, per its own Điều 44 khoản 1). Read directly from Decree 158/2025/NĐ-CP's own repeal clause (Official Gazette PDF, downloaded from congbaocdn.chinhphu.vn, real text layer confirmed via pdftotext) — this decree's own text was not independently fetched, so its own effective/issue-context details beyond the repeal citation are not separately confirmed.
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12/2022/NĐ-CP
Decree on administrative penalties in labor, social insurance, and Vietnamese workers working abroad under contract (2022)
New entry — not previously in laws.json. First circular to move driving-licence testing/issuance authority from the Ministry of Transport to the Ministry of Public Security, following the 2025 transfer. Effective date approximate (issued 28/02/2025; exact commencement date not independently confirmed against a primary source in this research pass). Superseded in full by Circular 108/2026/TT-BCA from 01/07/2026 — do not cite this circular's article numbers for current procedure; this article cites 108/2026/TT-BCA instead.
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128/2020/NĐ-CP
Decree on administrative penalties in the customs field (2020)
Not previously in this register. Replaced in full by Nghị định 169/2026/NĐ-CP from 1/7/2026 (see that entry). Under this decree (as amended by 102/2021/NĐ-CP), the currency/gold non-declaration fine ladder was identical for entry and exit: 1-2 / 5-10 / 10-20 million VND by value tier (Khoản 5, Điều 10, per a secondary summary fetched this session) — this symmetric structure is what 169/2026/NĐ-CP changed for the exit direction.
Superseded by Decree 133/2026/NĐ-CP, effective 25/05/2026. Kept here only so a build does not treat it as still in force if an older draft or cluster fact still cites it.
Not previously in this register. Distinct from Decree 144/2021/NĐ-CP (administrative penalties in security/public order/social safety, already registered, replaced by 282/2025/NĐ-CP) — easy to confuse the two given the same year. 142/2021/NĐ-CP specifically governed expulsion/deportation procedure mechanics and was replaced in full by Decree 59/2026/NĐ-CP effective 1 April 2026.
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144/2021/NĐ-CP
Decree on administrative penalties in security and public order (2021)
Not previously in this register; added because the work-permit-vietnam article needed to state clearly that this decree (and not the currently-in-force 219/2025/NĐ-CP) is obsolete.
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16/2014/TT-BCT
Circular on implementation of electricity selling prices (2014)
Superseded by Circular 60/2025/TT-BCT, effective 02/12/2025, along with its own amending circulars (25/2018, 06/2021, 09/2023/TT-BCT). Kept here only so a build does not treat it as still in force if an older draft or cluster fact still cites it. IMPORTANT EXCEPTION (confirmed 27/09/2026 from Circular 60/2025/TT-BCT's own primary text, Điều 20 khoản 1 điểm d): điểm c khoản 4 Điều 10 of THIS circular (as last amended by Circular 25/2018/TT-BCT Điều 1 khoản 5, then Circular 09/2023/TT-BCT Điều 2 khoản 2) is NOT superseded yet — it continues to be the operative students/workers tenant-electricity rule (tier-3 default for sub-12-month leases, 4-person ratio) until the next average retail price adjustment after Decision 14/2025/QĐ-TTg took effect. See research.json c16/c17 for the quoted text and the 60/2025/TT-BCT entry above for why. TRANSITIONAL (main 27/09/2026): Circular 60/2025/TT-BCT Điều 20 khoản 1 điểm đ keeps point c clause 4 Article 10 of Circular 16/2014 (as amended by 25/2018 and 09/2023 — tenant electricity, tier 3 default) applying until TT60 Điều 12.5.c takes effect (TT60 Điều 21 khoản 1). Articles should cite TT60 Điều 20, not these numbers, because the gate treats replaced instruments as not current.
Its Điều 1 khoản 5 introduced the current wording of điểm c khoản 4 Điều 10 of Circular 16/2014/TT-BCT (the students/workers tenant rule) — later re-amended by Circular 09/2023/TT-BCT. Formally superseded by Circular 60/2025/TT-BCT (02/12/2025), but that same provision (as further amended by 09/2023/TT-BCT) continues transitionally per 60/2025/TT-BCT Điều 20 khoản 1 điểm d — see the 16/2014/TT-BCT and 09/2023/TT-BCT entries. TRANSITIONAL (main 27/09/2026): Circular 60/2025/TT-BCT Điều 20 khoản 1 điểm đ keeps point c clause 4 Article 10 of Circular 16/2014 (as amended by 25/2018 and 09/2023 — tenant electricity, tier 3 default) applying until TT60 Điều 12.5.c takes effect (TT60 Điều 21 khoản 1). Articles should cite TT60 Điều 20, not these numbers, because the gate treats replaced instruments as not current.
Not previously in this register. Reported by secondary sources only (suckhoedoisong.vn, tier gov, and thuvienphapluat.vn, tier other) as amending Thông tư 41/2018/TT-BYT; both were replaced together by Thông tư 52/2024/TT-BYT from 1/7/2025. This research did not independently read this circular's own primary text (not needed — no claim in da-nang-tap-water/research.json relies on it directly, it is registered only so the article can correctly state 41/2018/TT-BYT's amendment history).
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41/2018/TT-BYT
Circular of the Ministry of Health issuing the National Technical Regulation on Domestic Water Quality (QCVN 01-1:2018/BYT) and regulating inspection and monitoring of clean water quality used for daily-life purposes
Read the primary signed Gazette PDF directly (6 pages of circular text + the QCVN 01-1:2018/BYT annex) via the WebFetch-saved local copy, page by page as images (scanned, no reliable text layer for automated extraction but legible). Confirmed replaced by Thông tư 52/2024/TT-BYT (issued 31/12/2024, effective 1/7/2025) per a Ministry of Health newspaper report (suckhoedoisong.vn, tier gov) — this research could not locate/fetch a document/gov primary text of Thông tư 52/2024/TT-BYT itself (404 on guessed datafiles.chinhphu.vn paths; congbao.chinhphu.vn site search and vbpl.vn search did not surface it in this session), so exact wording changes (scope, exclusion of direct-tap-drinking water, external-check frequency, responsible authority) could not be confirmed against the new circular's own text — see da-nang-tap-water/research.json open_questions.
Circular temporarily reducing 36 fees/charges (incl. some immigration-related fees) for Jul–Dec 2023
Expired · Circular · Effective
Cited as current legal basis on the Ministry of Public Security's own e-visa procedure page (dichvucong.bocongan.gov.vn, procedure 1.002757) alongside the also-superseded 25/2021/TT-BTC — the page has not been updated for 28/2026/TT-BTC.
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53/2016/TT-BCA
Circular on the methods for declaring and receiving foreigners' temporary residence information (2016)
Replaced by Circular 87/2026/TT-BCA from 24 July 2026. As of today (26/9/2026) the Ministry of Public Security's own procedure page for online temporary-residence declaration (dichvucong.bocongan.gov.vn, matt=26265, procedure 1.001437) still lists this superseded circular as its legal basis and has not been updated to cite 87/2026/TT-BCA.
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60/2023/TT-BTC
Circular on the rates, collection and remittance of vehicle registration and licence-plate fees (2023, Ministry of Finance)
Not previously in src/data/laws.json. Replaced in full by Circular 155/2025/TT-BTC from 1/1/2026 — confirmed via secondary press/portal coverage (luatvietnam.vn, xaydungchinhsach.chinhphu.vn), not by reading 155/2025/TT-BTC's own repeal clause directly (this session could not fetch a clean primary text of 155/2025/TT-BTC — its Gazette page rendered only a summary, with the full fee table only inside downloadable DOCX/PDF files not opened this session).
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62/2023/TT-BTC
Circular amending Circular 25/2021/TT-BTC
Repealed · Circular · Effective date not confirmed
Decree detailing a number of articles of the Law on Personal Income Tax and the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Personal Income Tax (2013)