1. Function:

a) Advising and assisting the Director of the Department in performing the state management in Ho Chi Minh City on publishing, printing and distributing.

b/ To perform other duties assigned by the Director of the Department.

2. Duties and powers:

- Appraise dossiers of application for permission to establish publishing houses of state organizations and agencies of the city and submit them to the Director of the Department for signature and submit them to the Chairman of the City People's Committee to request the Ministry of Information and Communications to grant permission to establish a publishing house in accordance with law;

- Appraise and submit to the Director of the Department the issuance and revocation of licenses for publishing non-business documents to agencies and organizations of the city, branches, representative offices and units attached to central agencies or organizations in the city; grant and revoke licenses for import of publications not for business purposes to agencies, organizations and individuals of the city; grant and revoke licenses for printing publications and licenses for printing and processing publications for foreign countries for publication printing establishments in the city in accordance with the law on publication;

- Appraise and submit to the Director of the Department the issuance and revocation of exhibition licenses, publication fairs for agencies, organizations and individuals belonging to the city, branches, representative offices, units attached to centrally-affiliated agencies and organizations in the city, temporarily suspend the organization of exhibitions and publication fairs of agencies, organizations and individuals licensed by the city in accordance with the provisions of law;

- Advising and assisting the Director of the Department in managing the depository of publications and organizing the reading of depositary publications licensed by the city; take responsibility for organizing appraisal when detecting depositary publications showing signs of law violations;

- To advise and assist the Director of the Department in temporarily suspending the printing of publications or suspending the printing of publications in print if it is found that the contents of the publication violate Article 10 of the Law on Publication and report to the Minister of Information and Communications, the Chairman of the City People's Committee; temporarily suspend the distribution of publications with contents that violate the Publication Law of publication publishers in the city;

- Advising and assisting the Director of the Department in destroying illegal publications according to decisions of competent authorities.