(Adopted at the 15th Meeting of the Standing¹ Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress on April 29,2000)
颁布日期：20000429 　实施日期：20000429 　颁布单位：全国人大常委会

　　When the Standing Committee of the National people's Congress discussed whether members of a villagers committee or of other rural organizations at the grassroots level engaging in certain work may be regarded as "the other persons who perform public service according to law" as provided for in the second paragraph of Article 93 of the Criminal Law, it made the following explanations:

　　The members of the a villagers committee or of other rural organizations at the grassroots level who are engaged in the following administrative² work shall be regarded as " the other persons who perform public service according to law" as provided for in the second paragraph of Article 93 of the Criminal Law:

　　(1) administration of funds or materials allocated³ for disaster relief, emergency rescue, flood prevention and control, special care for disabled servicemen and the families of revolutionary martyrs⁴ and servicemen, aid to the poor, migration⁵ and social relief;

　　(2)administration of funds or materials donated for public welfare;

　　(3)management and administration of State-owned land;

　　(4)administration of compensation for requisitioned land;

　　(5)withholding and tax payment affairs;

　　(6)administration of birth control, household register and conscription; and

　　(7)assisting the people's governments in such other administrative work.

　　When the members of a villagers committee or of other rural organizations at the grassroots level perform the public service provided for in the preceding paragraph, if they illegally take possession of public property, misappropriate public funds, extort⁶ money or property from another person or illegally accept another person's money or property and thus commit a crime, they shall be punished according to the provisions of Articles 382 and 383 on the crime of embezzlement⁷, provisions of Article 384 on the crime of misappropriating public funds, and provisions of Articles 385 and 386 on the crime of accepting bribes⁸ in the Criminal Law.

　　This Interpretation⁹ is hereby announced.