agencies shall fulfill their respective functions and tasks and at the same time guide and assist other State bodies, organizations and citizens in preventing and combating crime as well as in supervising and educating offenders at community level. 2. The agencies and organizations have a duty to educate people under their respective management in raising their vigilance, the sense of law protection and observance, and respect for the regulations of socialist life; to take timely measures to eliminate the causes of and conditions for committing crimes in their respective agencies and organizations. 3. All citizens have the obligation to actively participate in the struggle to prevent and combat crimes. Chapter II EFFECT OF THE PENAL CODE Article 5.- The effect of the Penal Code on criminal acts committed in the territory of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam 1. The Penal Code applies to all acts of criminal offenses committed in the territory of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. 2. For foreigners who commit offense in the territory of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam but are entitled to diplomatic immunities or consular privileges and immunities under Vietnamese laws, international treaties which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has signed or acceded to or the international practices, their criminal liabilities shall be settled through diplomatic channels. Article 6.- The effect of the Penal Code on criminal acts committed outside the territory of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam 1. Vietnamese citizens who commit offenses outside the territory of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam may be examined for penal liability in Vietnam according to this Code. This provision also applies to stateless persons who permanently reside in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. 2. Foreigners who commit offenses outside the territory of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam may be examined for penal liability according to the Penal Code of Vietnam in circumstances provided for in the international treaties which the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has signed or acceded to. Article 7.- The temporal application of the Penal Code 1. The provision applying to a criminal act shall be the provision currently in force at