Main Functions and Responsibilities:

1. To lay out, advise, supervise, collaborate and serve the legal system in the governments of the province, to be responsible for enhancing legal administration in Hunan.

2. To put the legislation of the provincial people's government under centralized consideration and layout, to be responsible for drafting and organizing to execute the legislation plan of the provincial's people's government.

3. To review and revise, draft or organize to draft out local regulations, the regulation drafts of the provincial people's government; to perform legality review to the significant document drafts of the provincial people's government; to take in charge of interpretation to the rules and regulations of the provincial people's government as well as the collect comments for the drafts of laws and regulations.

4. To undertake the organization of implementation and supervision to the laws, regulations and rules which are to regulate the cooperative behaviors of the organs. To study the laws, regulations and other common issues which regulate the governments' cooperative behaviors, such as administrative litigation, reconsideration, compensation, punishment, permission, charge and compulsory. To propose to the provincial people's government about perfecting system and solutions, lay down supporting regulations, documents and responses.

5. To study the common questions occurred in the administration by law, draft out the layout and system of administration and organize to execute after approval by the provincial people's government.

6. To be responsible for the inquisition system of administrative enforcement, direct the organs of administrative enforcement, regulate their behaviors. To undertake the daily works of administrative enforcement supervision. To take charge in the recording and reviewing of significant concrete administrative behavior, supervise and correct the illegal or improper administrative behaviors of the same-level or below-level organs in accordance with the law. To collaborate the conflicts and disputes occurred in the administrative enforcement between different departments.

7. To be responsible for reviewing, confirming and regulating the qualification of the administrate body, direct the team construction of administrative enforcement in the province. To organize relative organs to perform answering the administrative reconsideration, administrative enforcement, the training, examination and qualification identification to the related personnel, issue and manage the certificates.

8. To enhance the system reformation to the administrative enforcement in the province, together with other relative departments. To undertake the rights of administrative punishment and licensing which are relatively concentrated. To perform comprehensive enforcement spot-trial together with related organs.

9. To undertake the recording and reviewing works for the regulations and regulative documents, to advise and supervise the recording and reviewing in the province.

10. To be responsible for the administrative reconsideration, lawsuit answering, compensation of the provincial people's government. To direct the administrative reconsideration, lawsuit answering and compensation in the province. To monitor the administrative reconsideration of the provincial organs.

11. To propose the legal comments to the provincial people's government for any significant decisions and administrative activities, handle with the administrative legal affairs and act as the legal advisor of the provincial people's government.

12. To organize to translate, revise the local regulations, documents in foreign languages of the provincial people's government. To take charge of the compilation, revision and repealing of local regulations and provincial rules. To construct, manage and apply the database of local regulations and provincial rules. To compile and publish their formal version.

13. To advise the training to the officials and staff members of the provincial organs for their administrative enforcement knowledge. To be responsible for the training to the personnel in the legal system of the province. To organize the theoretical study, education and communication among the departments. To provide legal advices and information to the leadership of the provincial people's government and other departments.

14. Entrusted by the provincial people's government, organize the arbitration in Hunan Province.

15. To fulfill other works appointed by the provincial party committee and people's government.