SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness

THE GOVERNMENT
DECREE No. 62/1999/ND-CP OF JULY 31, 1999
PROMULGATING THE REGULATION ON FLOOD DIVERSION AND SLOWING
IN THE RED RIVER SYSTEM TO PROTECT THE SAFETY OF HANOI CAPITAL
[According to official translation published in Official Gazette No.21, dated 31 July 1999] 

THE GOVERNMENT

Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government of September 30, 1992;
Pursuant to the Law on Water Resource of May 20,1998;
Pursuant to the Ordinance on Dikes of November 9, 1989 and the Ordinance on Flood and Storm Prevention and Combat of March 8, 1993;
At the proposals of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Head of the Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and Combat,

DECREES:

Article 1. To promulgate together with this Decree the Regulation on flood diversion and slowing in the Red river system to protect the safety of Hanoi capital.
Article 2. This Decree takes effect after its signing. All previous stipulations which are contrary, to this Decree are now annulled.
The Minister-Head of the Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and Combat, the ministers, the heads of the ministerial-level agencies, the heads of the agencies attached to the Government and the presidents of the People’s Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities in the Red river delta shall, within their respective functions and tasks, have to guide and organize the implementation of this Decree.
Article 3. The ministers, the heads of the ministerial-level agencies, the heads of the agencies attached to the Government and the presidents of the People’s Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities shall have to implement this Decree.

On behalf of the Government

Prime Minister

PHAN VAN KHAI