CIRCULAR

AMENDMENTS TO SOME ARTICLES OF THE CIRCULAR NO. 36/2019/TT-BTC DATED JUNE 17, 2019 OF THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE PROVIDING GUIDANCE ON COMPUTER-GENERATED LOTTERY BUSINESS

Pursuant to Government’s Decree No.30/2007/ND-CP dated March 01, 2007 on lottery business and Decree No .78/2012/ND-CP dated October 05, 2012 on amendments to a number of Articles of the Decree No. 30/2007/ND-CP ;

Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 87/2017/ND-CP dated July 26, 2017 defining the function, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Finance;

Implementing the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 1109/QD-TTg dated July 11, 2011 approving the scheme on the establishment of computer-generated lottery enterprises in Vietnam;

At the request of the Director of the Department of Banking and Financial Institutions;

The Minister of Finance hereby promulgates a Circular on amendments to some Articles of the Circular No. 36/2019/TT-BTC dated June 17, 2019 of the Ministry of Finance providing guidance on computer-generated lottery business.

Article 1. Amendments to some Articles of the Circular No. 36/2019/TT-BTC dated June 17, 2019 of the Ministry of Finance providing guidance on computer-generated lottery business

1. Point c Clause 2 of Article 24 is amended as follows:

“c) Members of the council shall be heads of departments and branches of the enterprise;”

2. Clause 3a is added after Clause 3 of Article 24 as follows:

 “3a. In case the quantity of Supervising Council’s members specified in Clause 2 of this Article is not adequate due to a force majeure event such as natural disaster, epidemic or conflagration and other emergency cases decided by a competent authority, the computer-generated lottery enterprise is entitled to add a Vice President who is, in the following order of priority, head of a department or director of a branch; deputy head of a department or deputy director of a branch of the computer-generated lottery enterprise. If the quantity of members specified in this Article is not adequate, the computer-generated lottery enterprise shall issue a decision to suspend the drawing and make the decision publicly available at its head office, branches, executive offices or shops (if any), computer-generated lottery agents, on its website or other mass media in accordance with regulations of law. The following shall be made publicly available: reasons for suspension, expected date of the next drawing, lottery tickets distributed and other information requested by the computer-generated lottery enterprise in accordance with regulations of law.”

Article 2. Implementation clause

1. This Circular comes into force from the date on which it is signed.

2. Difficulties that arise during the implementation of this Circular should be reported to the Ministry of Finance for consideration./.