Regulations on changing inspection team leaders from August 2025

The Lao Dong Newspaper Legal Consulting Office replied:

Clause 2, Article 24 of Decree 216/2025/ND-CP detailing and guiding the implementation of the Law on Inspection (effective from August 5, 2025) stipulates that the person issuing the inspection decision shall consider and change the Head of the inspection team and Deputy Head of the inspection team (if any) when falling into one of the following cases:

a) Belonging to one of the cases specified in Clause 2, Article 23 of this Decree; Points a, d and d of Clause 1 of this Article;

b) The head of the inspection team does not comply with the reporting, direction and management information regime of the person issuing the inspection decision; the Deputy Head of the inspection team does not comply with the reporting, direction and management information regime of the Head of the inspection team or the person issuing the inspection decision.

Clause 2, Article 23 of Decree 216/2025/ND-CP stipulates that a person in one of the following cases is not allowed to be the Head of the inspection team or Deputy Head of the inspection team:

a) Belonging to one of the cases specified in Points a, b, c and d, Clause 1 of this Article;

b) The person whose husband or wife, biological father, biological mother, biological father, mother-in-law or father-in-law, child, brother, sister, biological sister or biological brother, sister, biological sister of the wife or husband working at an agency, organization or unit is the subject of the inspection.

Clauses a, d, and d, Clause 1, Article 24 of Decree 216/2025/ND-CP stipulate that the person issuing the inspection decision shall consider and change the members of the Inspection Team when falling into one of the following cases:

a) Having one of the prohibited acts as prescribed in Article 6 of the Law on Inspection;

d) Failure to complete assigned tasks, poor health or other objective reasons that prevent him from continuing to perform inspection tasks;

d) To be assigned other tasks at the request of a competent agency or organization.

Thus, from August 5, 2025, the above cases must have changed the Head of the Inspection Team.