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Working Rules of Shenzhen Municipal People's Government on Administrative Review

Working Rules of Shenzhen Municipal People' s Government on Administrative Review

Article 1 These Rules are formulated pursuant to the Administrative Review Law, with the purpose of adapting to the need of administrative review work of Shenzhen Municipality, defining duties, functions and work procedures of the organization for administrative review and review agencies of  the Municipal People' s Government of Shenzhen (hereinafter referred to as "Municipal Government" ), raising working efficiency for review, and conducting reviews accurately, timely and justly. 

Article 2 The Municipality Government is the administrative review organ, which accepts applications for review, and shall, according to "Administrative Review Law" , conduct reviews over the specific administrative acts and make relevant review decisions. The Office of Administrative Review of Municipal Government is the review agency of Shenzhen Municipality, which practically performs the duties and functions provided in Article3 of "Administrative Review Law" ,and shares offices with the Bureau of Legislative Affairs of Shenzhen Municipality. The chief and deputy director of the Bureau of Legislative Affairs of Shenzhen Municipality separately hold concurrent post as chairman and vice-chairman of the Office of Review of Municipal Government.

Article 3 Mayor of Shenzhen Municipality is the legal representative of the municipal administrative review organ, who shall make decisions on conducting reviews and relevant affairs about review work, and may, according to these rules, authorize Deputy mayor or chairman of the Office of Review of Municipal Government to handle relevant affairs about review.

Article 4 The Office of Review of Municipal Government shall submit the cases involving any one of the following circumstances to Mayor to make decisions:

(1) Mayor or Deputy Mayor concurrently holds the leadership post of the applied government department;

(2) The specific administrative act is undertaken on the basis of the decision of Municipal Government;

(3) Other significant review cases which are obliged to be submitted to Mayor to make decisions.

Mayor may authorize Deputy Mayor to handle the cases mentioned above with chairman of the Office of Review of Municipal Government.

 Article 5 Mayor may authorize the Office of Review of Municipal Government to handle other cases for review excluding those provided in Article 4 in these rules and make decisions in the name of Municipal Government.

Article 6 The Office of Review of Municipal Government shall, representing Municipal Government, practically take in charge of daily affairs as the following:

(1) Accepting visitors and answering the questions concerning administrative review;

(2) Receiving and examining applications filed to Municipal Government by applicants, and deciding to accept it or not;

(3) Being in charge of the overall investigation and trial of review cases;

(4) Deciding to suspend review, extend the time limit for review and stop executing specific administrative acts;

(5) Receiving, putting forward and transferring the review opinions and applications review to relevant provisions, on which a specific administrative act bases, according to Article 26 and Article 27 of the Administrative Review Law;

(6) Reviewing the relevant provisions taken as the basis for a specific administrative act which the Municipal Government has right to conduct, and putting forward the treatment opinions or handling in name of the Municipal Government;

(7) Putting forward opinions about review decision in respect to the cases specified in Article 4 of these rules, and submitting the opinions to the Municipal Government;

(8) Making decisions on behalf of the Municipal Government according to Article5 of these rules;

(9) On behalf of the Municipal Government, ordering the function department established under the Municipal Government or the People' s Government of district to accept review applications in case he refuses to accept without reasonable ground, or directly accepting the review applications when necessary;

(10) On behalf of the Municipal Government, ordering the applicant to perform the decision made by the Municipal Government within limited time in case he refuses to perform or delays  performing without reasonable ground;

(11) On behalf of the Municipal Government, organizing the relevant departments to enforce the review decision, or applying to the People' s Count for compulsory execution in case an applicant, within the time limit, neither files a lawsuit to the people's court, nor implement the review decision of the Municipal Government changing the original specific administrative act;

(12) Putting forward suggestions on dealing with the illegal act undertaken by administrative organs or their officials in violation of the Administrative Review Law;

(13) Other affairs of administrative review;

(14) Dealing with the affairs concerning responding to administrative action raised by applicant, who is not satisfied with review decision made by the Municipal Government;

(15) Directing departments of the Municipal Government and the People' s Government of all districts to fulfill the work of administrative review and response to administrative action. 

      Article 7 Applications requiring review of relevant provisions on which specific administrative acts base shall be dealt with respectively as following:

(1) An application, requiring a review of provisions formulated by a department of the State Council or the Provincial People' s Government, shall be transferred by the Office of Review of Municipal Government in name of the Municipal Government to the state organ which has power to handle it;

(2) In case an application requires a review of provisions formulated by the Municipal Government or its department or a district of the People' s Government, the Office of Review of Municipal Government shall conduct the review, put forward handling opinions and report them to the Municipal Government, which shall handle the review application within 30 days from the date of receiving the application.

(3) In case an application requires a review of provisions formulated by the People' s Government of Town, the Office of Review of Municipal Government and the People' s Government of District shall conduct the review and handle the application within 30 days from the date of receiving the application. In handling the application, the People' s Government of district shall inform the Office of Review of Municipal Government of the review decision in written. 

Article 8  Whenin the course of reviewing an administrative review application, the Office for Review of Municipal Government considers that the basis of a specific administrative act, which is one of laws, rules, regulations, or orders formulated by the State, is illegal, it shall handle the case in accordance with relevant state provisions; if the basis is an order formulated by the State Department, an order of the People' s Government of all levels above county or their departments, or an order of the People' s Government of Town, it shall be handled according to Article7 of these rules.

Article 9 When relevant department or the department in charge of personnel or supervision receives the suggestions of disposal put forward by the Office for Review of Municipal Government according to item12, Article6 of these rules, it shall handle the suggestions according to law within 60 days and shall inform the Office for Review of Municipal Government of the handling result.

Article10 As respect to the cases of review which are subject to be decided by Mayor according to these rules, the Office for Review of Municipal Government shall submit the materials of the settled cases to Mayor to review and decide within 45 days from the date of receiving the applications. And Mayor shall make decisions within 15 days from the date of receiving the materials of the cases.

    Article 11 In case the Office of Review of Municipal Government shall handle the cases of review and make decision on them in name of the Municipal Government according to these rules, decision for review shall be made within 60 days from the date of accepting the review application. If it is necessary, the time limit may be extended with approval of the person in charge of the Office for Review of Municipal Government , but extension shall not exceed 30 days at the longest. 

        Article 12 Written decisions and other documents of review shall be printed uniformly by the Office for Review of Municipal Government, and be served separately to the litigants.

        Article 13 Written review decisions, written decisions of dismissal for consideration and written decisions of suspending execution of the specific administrative acts shall be affixed with the "Special Seal for Review of the People' s Government of Shenzhen Municipality" ; other documents for review shall be affixed with the "Special Seal of the Office for Review of Municipal Government for handling cases" .

  Article 14 Funds for the Office for Review of Municipal Government handling the cases for review and responding to prosecution shall be listed in budge and be guaranteed by Municipal Financial Department.

        Article 15 The Office for Review of Municipal Government shall be in charge of the interpretation of these rules.

        Article 16 These rules shall become effective as of the promulgation.


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