Ministry of Home Affairs proposes not to require document change when merging administrative units

A police officer at the Hai Duong Provincial Public Administration Service Center collects an iris for a citizen applying for an ID card. The Ministry of Home Affairs is proposing that documents issued by competent authorities to individuals and organizations before the administrative unit merger are still valid if they are still valid (illustrative photo)

According to the draft resolution of the National Assembly Standing Committee on the arrangement of administrative units drafted by the Ministry of Home Affairs , documents that have been issued by competent authorities to individuals, citizens, and organizations before the arrangement according to the old administrative unit, if they have not expired according to regulations, will continue to be used.

The draft resolution also clearly states that the provincial People's Committee will direct communes and wards to develop a plan to propagate and implement the conversion of documents for individuals and organizations when there is a change in administrative boundaries due to mergers.

Localities are responsible for facilitating individuals and organizations in the process of converting documents and are not allowed to collect any fees or charges related to this procedure due to changes in administrative boundaries.

The policy of exempting fees for documents and procedures that individuals and organizations must change due to administrative unit rearrangement was stated by the Central Steering Committee on summarizing the implementation of Resolution No. 18 on March 20.

At the end of February, the Politburo and the Secretariat issued Conclusion No. 127, assigning the Government Party Committee to study and develop a detailed plan (project and submission) to submit to the Politburo for consideration of merging a number of provinces in the direction of no longer having district levels in these provinces and continuing to merge communes and wards. The Government Party Committee agreed to propose a merger plan to the competent authority, with the goal of reducing the number of existing provinces by 50% and reducing the number of communes and wards nationwide by 60-70%.

According to the plan, the merger of provinces will be completed before August 30 and the new provincial administrative units will start operating from September. For commune level, the merger will be completed before June 30 and the new communes and wards will officially operate from July 1.

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