Who is responsible for providing civil status information?
In Article 64 of the Law on Civil Status 2014 has the following provisions:
"Article 64. Procedures for issuing copies of civil status extracts
1. The person requesting a copy of the civil status extract directly or through a representative shall submit a declaration according to the prescribed form to the Civil Status Database Management Agency.
In case a competent agency or organization requests a copy of an individual's civil status extract, send a written request clearly stating the reason to the Civil Status Database Management Agency.
2. Immediately after receiving the request, if all conditions are met, the Civil Status Database Management Agency shall issue a copy of the civil status extract to the requester."
Besides, atClause 1 and Clause 5, Article 4 of the Law on Civil Status 2014 There are also regulations:
"Article 4. Interpretation of terms
In this Law, the following terms are understood as follows:
...first. Civil status registration agencies are the People's Committees of communes, wards and towns (hereinafter referred to as commune-level People's Committees), People's Committees of districts, towns, provincial cities and administrative units. equivalent (hereinafter referred to as district-level People's Committee), diplomatic representative agencies, consular representative agencies of Vietnam abroad (hereinafter referred to as representative agencies).
...5. The civil status database management agency includes the civil status registration agency, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other agencies assigned authority according to the provisions of law..."
Thus, according to the above regulations, the responsibility for providing civil status information belongs to the People's Committees of communes, wards, towns, People's Committees of districts, towns, provincial cities and equivalent administrative units. diplomatic representative agencies, consular representative agencies of Vietnam abroad, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other agencies assigned authority.