Provisions on Procedures for Imposition of Agriculture Administrative Penalty.

These Provisions are enacted to standardize agricultural administrative penalties, safeguard and supervise the administrative departments of agriculture to effectively implement administrative management and protect the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, legal persons and other organizations. The Provisions consist of 68 Articles divided into 5 Chapters: General provisions; Jurisdiction of agricultural administrative punishment; Decision of agricultural administrative punishment; Delivery and enforcement of agricultural administrative penalty decisions; File filing.
The agricultural administrative departments authorized by laws and regulations shall impose administrative penalties within the scope of statutory authorization and bear legal responsibility for the consequences of the acts. The agricultural administrative comprehensive law enforcement agencies established by the agricultural administrative departments in accordance with the law specifically shall undertake agricultural administrative punishments.