According to the Decree No. 14/2015/ND-CP dated February 13, 2015 of the Government detailing and guiding the implementation of a number of article of the Railway Law, ticket price exemption is applicable to under six- year- old children accompanying adults.
For other objectives, the Decree also details the level of price deduction, the reduction of 90% of the ticket prices, applies to persons engaged in revolutionary activities before January 1, 1945, persons engaged in revolutionary activities from January 1, 1945 to before the August 19, 1945 General Uprisings; Vietnam Hero Mothers; and the reduction of 30% of the ticket prices, applies to subjects being war-invalids, persons enjoying policies like war-invalids; agent orange victims; exception seriously disable or seriously disabled persons. Persons entitled to ticket price exemption or reduction shall produce certificates of subjects together with personal identity papers when they buy train tickets and travel on trains.
For work construction, resource exploitation and other activities in areas adjacent to railway work- protecting scope, the minimum safety distance of a number of works in areas adjacent to railway work- protecting scope is defined at least 05 (five) meters from the railway traffic safety corridors, for houses built with flammable materials; at least 10 (ten) meters from the railway traffic safety corridors, for lime, pottery or brick kilns, pig-iron and steel furnaces, cement kilns, crystal production furnaces; for toxic, explosive, fire and explosion- prone substance warehouses, they must be built away from railway traffic safety corridors at distances prescribed by relevant law and for electricity transmission lines over railways, besides the safety distances prescribed by electricity law, measures will be applied to ensure the non-interferences into railway communications and signal systems and to ensure safety when electricity transmission lines break.
Urban centers to be constructed with urban railways must they function as political, economic, cultural, scientific and technological, tourist and service centers, traffic hubs for domestic and international exchanges, playing the role of boosting the socio-economic development of a territorial region, inter-provincial regions or the whole country. The non-agricultural labor ratio to the total labor represents 85% or higher; the population size is one million inhabitants or more and the average population density is 12,000 persons/ km2 or more.
This Decree takes effect on April 15, 2015
