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31/2024/QH15 Land Law
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31/2024/QH15
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1. Scope of regulation
Article 2. Regulated entities
Article 3. Interpretation of terms
Article 4. Land users
Article 5. Principles of land use
Article 6. Persons responsible before the State for land use
Article 7. Persons responsible before the State for management of allocated land
Article 8. Encouragement of investment in land
Article 9. Land classification
Article 10. Bases for determining land categories
Article 11. Strictly prohibited acts
Chapter II POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE STATE, AND RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF CITIZENS TOWARD LAND
Section 1. POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE STATE AS THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LAND OWNER
Article 12. Land ownership
Article 13. Powers of the State as the representative of the land owner
Article 14. The State exercises the right to represent the land owner
Article 15. Responsibilities of the State toward land users
Article 16. The State's responsibilities for ethnic minority people's land
Article 17. The State's guarantees for land users
Article 18. The State's responsibilities for provision of land information
Article 19. Roles and responsibilities of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and its member organizations in land management and use
Section 2. STATE MANAGEMENT OF LAND
Article 20. Contents of state management of land
Article 21. Tasks and powers of the Government, the Prime Minister, ministries, ministerial-level agencies and local administrations at all levels
Article 22. Land management agencies and cadastral officers at commune level
Section 3. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF CITIZENS TOWARD LAND
Article 23. Citizens' rights toward land
Article 24. Right to access to land information
Article 25. Citizens' obligations toward land
Chapter III LAND USERS' RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS
Section 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 26. General rights of land users
Article 27. Rights to exchange, transfer, lease, sublease, inherit, donate, mortgage land use rights and contribute land use rights as capital
Article 28. Receipt of land use rights
Article 29. Rights toward adjacent land parcels
Article 30. Right to choose forms of land rental payment
Article 31. General obligations of land users
Section 2. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF DOMESTIC ORGANIZATIONS, RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS AND SUBSIDIARY RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS USING LAND
Article 32. Rights and obligations of domestic organizations, religious organizations and subsidiary religious organizations allocated land without land use levy by the State
Article 33. Rights and obligations of domestic organizations allocated land with land use levy or leased land by the State with full one-off rental payment for the entire lease period
Article 34. Rights and obligations of economic organizations, non-business units, religious organizations and subsidiary religious organizations using land leased by the State with annual rental payment
Article 35. Rights and obligations of economic organizations receiving transfer of land use rights and permitted to change land use purpose
Article 36. Rights and obligations of economic organizations receiving land use rights contributed as capital; land use rights of economic organizations upon dissolution or bankruptcy
Section 3. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF INDIVIDUALS AND RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES USING LAND
Article 37. Rights and obligations of individuals using land
Article 38. Rights and obligations of individuals changing land use purpose from non-levied to levied land use or land lease
Article 39. Rights and obligations of residential communities using land
Section 4. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF FOREIGN ORGANIZATIONS WITH DIPLOMATIC FUNCTIONS, OVERSEAS VIETNAMESE, ECONOMIC ORGANIZATIONS WITH FOREIGN INVESTMENT USING LAND
Article 40. Rights and obligations of foreign organizations with diplomatic functions
Article 41. Rights and obligations of overseas Vietnamese and foreign-invested economic organizations using land for investment projects in Vietnam
Article 42. Rights and obligations of foreign-invested economic organizations using land from capital contribution with land use rights
Article 43. Rights and obligations of overseas Vietnamese and foreign-invested economic organizations using land in industrial parks, industrial clusters or high-tech zones
Article 44. Rights and obligations regarding residential land use of overseas Vietnamese permitted to own houses in Vietnam; foreigners or overseas Vietnamese not falling under the subjects permitted to own houses attached to residential land use rights in Vietnam
Section 5. CONDITIONS FOR EXERCISING RIGHTS OF LAND USERS
Article 45. Conditions for exercising the rights to exchange, transfer, lease, sublease, bequeath, donate land use rights; mortgage, contribute capital with land use rights; receive transfer, receive donation of land use rights
Article 46. Conditions for selling assets attached to land, lease rights in a land lease contract with the State with annual rental payment
Article 47. Conditions for exchanging agricultural land use rights
Article 48. Cases of exercising land use rights with conditions
Chapter IV ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARIES, BASIC LAND SURVEYS
Section 1. ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARIES, CADASTRAL MAPS
Article 49. Administrative boundaries
Article 50. Cadastral surveying and mapping
Section 2. LAND SURVEY, ASSESSMENT AND PROTECTION, IMPROVEMENT, REHABILITATION
Article 51. Principles of land survey, assessment and protection, improvement, rehabilitation
Article 52. Land survey and assessment activities
Article 53. Contents of land survey and assessment
Article 54. Land protection, improvement and rehabilitation
Article 55. Responsibilities for organizing land survey, assessment and protection, improvement, rehabilitation
Section 3. LAND STATISTICS AND INVENTORY
Article 56. Principles of land statistics and inventory
Article 57. Scope and subjects of land statistics and inventory
Article 58. Indicators, contents and activities of land statistics and inventory
Article 59. Responsibilities for organizing land statistics and inventory
Article 60. Principles for land use planning and plan formulation
Article 61. Land use planning and plan system
Article 62. Land use planning and plan periods
Article 63. Funding for planning activities
Article 64. National land use planning and plans
Article 65. Provincial-level land use planning
Article 66. District-level land use planning
Article 67. District-level annual land use plans
Article 68. National defense land use planning, security land use planning
Article 69. Responsibility for organizing the formulation of land use planning and plans
Article 70. Solicitation of opinions on land use planning and plans
Article 71. Appraisal of land use planning and plans
Article 72. Competence to decide on, approve land use planning and plans
Article 73. Review and adjustment of land use planning and plans
Article 74. Selection of consultants for formulation of land use planning and plans
Article 75. Public announcement of land use planning and plans
Article 76. Implementation of land use planning and plans
Article 77. Responsibility to report on results of implementation of land use planning and plans
Chapter VI LAND RECOVERY AND LAND REQUISITION
Article 78. Land recovery for national defense or security purposes
Article 79. Land recovery for socio-economic development for the national or public interest
Article 80. Bases and conditions for land acquisition for the purpose of national defense and security; socio-economic development for the national and public interests
Article 81. Cases of land acquisition due to violations of the land law
Article 82. Land acquisition due to termination of land use according to law, voluntary return of land, risk of threatening human life, inability to continue using
Article 83. Authority to recover land and handle cases of recovering land and assets attached to land being public property
Article 84. Cases of land acquisition related to national defense and security
Article 85. Notification of land acquisition and compliance with decisions on land acquisition for the purpose of national defense and security; socio-economic development for the national and public interests
Article 86. Agencies, units and organizations responsible for performing the tasks of compensation, support and resettlement; management, exploitation and use of the acquired land fund
Article 87. Order and procedures for compensation, support, resettlement, and land recovery for purposes of national defense, security, socio-economic development for national and public interests
Article 88. Coercion of implementation of the decision on compulsory inventory
Article 89. Coercion of implementation of the land recovery decision
Article 90. Land requisition
Chapter VII COMPENSATION, SUPPORT AND RESETTLEMENT WHEN THE STATE RECOVERS LAND
Section 1. GENERAL REGULATIONS
Article 91. Principles of compensation, support and resettlement when the State recovers land
Article 92. Compensation, support and resettlement for special cases
Article 93. Separating the compensation, support and resettlement contents into an independent project and land recovery, compensation, support and resettlement for an investment project
Article 94. Funds and payment of compensation, support and resettlement
Section 2. COMPENSATION FOR LAND
Article 95. Conditions for receiving compensation for land when the State recovers land for the purpose of national defense, security; socio-economic development for national and public interests
Article 96. Compensation for land when the State recovers agricultural land of households and individuals
Article 97. Compensation for land when the State recovers agricultural land of economic organizations, communities, religious organizations and sub-religious organizations
Article 98. Compensation for land when the State recovers residential land
Article 99. Compensation for land when the State recovers non-agricultural land other than residential land of households and individuals
Article 100. Compensation for land when the State recovers non-agricultural land other than residential land of economic organizations, public non-business organizations, communities, religious organizations, sub-religious organizations, overseas Vietnamese, foreign organizations with diplomatic functions, foreign-invested economic organizations
Article 101. Cases not entitled to compensation for land when the State recovers land
Section 3. COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGE TO ASSETS AND INVESTMENT COSTS ON LAND
Article 102. Compensation for damage to houses, residential houses and construction works attached to land when the State recovers land
Article 103. Compensation for plants and livestock
Article 104. Compensation for costs of moving assets when the State recovers land
Article 105. Cases not entitled to compensation for assets attached to land when the State recovers land
Article 106. Compensation for damage to land within the safety corridors of works, protected areas, and safety belts upon construction of works or areas with safety corridors
Article 107. Compensation for remaining investment costs in land when the State recovers land for purposes of national defense, security, socio-economic development for national and public interests
Section 4. SUPPORT
Article 108. Support when the State recovers land
Article 109. Support for vocational training, job change and job seeking for households and individuals when the State recovers land
Section 5. RESETTLEMENT
Article 110. Elaboration and implementation of resettlement projects, resettlement areas
Article 111. Resettlement arrangement
Chapter VIII DEVELOPMENT, MANAGEMENT AND EXPLOITATION OF LAND FUNDS
Article 112. Principles for development, management and exploitation of land funds
Article 113. Land developed, managed and exploited by land fund development organizations
Article 114. Land development fund
Article 115. Land fund development organizations
Chapter IX LAND ALLOCATION, LAND LEASE, CHANGE OF LAND USE PURPOSE
Article 116. Bases for land allocation, land lease, and permission for change of land use purpose
Article 117. Land allocation and land lease for land currently used by a person to another person
Article 118. Land allocation without land use levy collection
Article 119. Land allocation with land use levy collection
Article 120. Land lease
Article 121. Change of land use purpose
Article 122. Conditions for land allocation, land lease, and permission for change of land use purpose
Article 123. Authority to allocate land, lease land, permit change of land use purpose
Article 124. Cases of land allocation, land lease without auction of land use rights, without bidding to select investors to implement projects using land
Article 125. Allocation and lease of land through auction of land use rights
Article 126. Allocation and lease of land through bidding for selection of investors to implement investment projects using land
Article 127. Use of land to implement socio-economic development projects through agreement on acquisition of land use rights or having land use rights
Chapter X LAND REGISTRATION, ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES OF LAND USE RIGHTS AND OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY ATTACHED TO LAND
Section 1. CADASTRAL RECORDS
Article 128. Principles for compilation, adjustment and updating of cadastral records
Article 129. Cadastral records
Article 130. Responsibilities for compiling, adjusting, updating, managing and exploiting cadastral records
Section 2. REGISTRATION OF LAND AND LAND-ATTACHED ASSETS
Article 131. Principles of registration of land and land-attached assets
Article 132. Initial registration
Article 133. Change registration
Section 3. ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES OF LAND USE RIGHTS AND OWNERSHIP OF LAND-ATTACHED ASSETS
Article 134. Certificates of land use rights and ownership of land-attached assets
Article 135. Principles for granting Certificates of land use rights and ownership of land-attached assets
Article 136. Authority to grant Certificates of land use rights and ownership of land-attached assets
Article 137. Granting of Certificates of land use rights and ownership of land-attached assets to households, individuals and communities using land with documents on land use rights
Article 138. Issuance of Certificates of land use rights and ownership of land-attached assets for cases where households and individuals are using land without papers on land use rights and not violating the land law, not falling into cases of land allocated incorrectly by unauthorized entities
Article 139. Settlement for cases where households and individuals use land in violation of the land law before July 01, 2014
Article 140. Granting Certificates of land use rights and ownership of land-attached assets to households and individuals currently using land allocated ultra vires
Article 141. Determination of residential land area when recognizing land use rights
Article 142. Granting Certificates of land use rights and ownership of land-attached assets to organizations currently using land
Article 143. Granting Certificates of land use rights and ownership of land-attached assets for land for construction of urban areas, rural residential areas, or production and business projects with various land use purposes
Article 144. Granting Certificates of land use rights and ownership of land-attached assets for land with historical-cultural relics or scenic landscapes
Article 145. Granting Certificates of land use rights and ownership of land-attached assets to religious organizations or subordinate religious organizations currently using land
Article 146. Granting Certificates of land use rights and ownership of land-attached assets for cases where the land parcel area is smaller than the minimum area
Article 147. Granting Certificates of land use rights and ownership of land-attached assets for cases where the land parcel is located within the administrative boundaries of multiple communes
Article 148. Granting Certificates of land use rights and ownership of land-attached assets for residential houses
Article 149. Issuance of Certificates of land use rights and ownership of land-attached assets for assets being construction works other than houses
Article 150. Issuance of Certificates of land use rights and ownership of land-attached assets for cases where the State has made decisions on the management of land and land-attached assets but has not implemented them
Article 151. Cases not granted Certificates of land use rights and ownership of land-attached assets
Article 152. Correction, revocation and cancellation of issued certificates
Chapter XI LAND FINANCE AND LAND PRICE
Section 1. LAND FINANCE
Article 153. State budget revenue from land
Article 154. Revenue from public services on land
Article 155. Bases for calculation of land use fees and land rental; time of land valuation and calculation of land use fees and land rental
Article 156. Payment of land use fees and land rental upon change of land use purpose, extension of land use term, adjustment of land use term
Article 157. Exemption and reduction of land use fees and land rental
Section 2. LAND PRICE Article 158. Principles, bases and methods of land valuation
Article 159. Land price list
Article 160. Specific land prices
Article 161. Council for appraisal of land price lists, Council for appraisal of specific land prices
Article 162. Rights and obligations of land price consulting organizations
Chapter XII NATIONAL LAND INFORMATION SYSTEM AND NATIONAL LAND DATABASE
Article 163. National land information system
Article 164. Information technology infrastructure and software of the national land information system
Article 165. National database on land
Article 166. Management, operation, exploitation and connection with the national database on land
Article 167. Online public services and electronic transactions on land
Article 168. Ensuring funding for construction, management, operation, maintenance and upgrading of the national land information system
Article 169. Ensuring safety and confidentiality of land information and data
Article 170. Responsibilities for construction, management, operation and exploitation of the national land information system
Chapter XIII LAND USE REGIME
Section 1. LAND USE TERMS
Article 171. Land used with long-term stability
Article 172. Land used for a definite term
Article 173. Duration of land use upon change of land use purpose
Article 174. Duration of land use upon receipt of transfer of land use rights
Article 175. Adjustment of duration of land use for investment projects
Section 2. LAND USE REGIME
Article 176. Quota for allocation of agricultural land
Article 177. Quota for receipt of transfer of agricultural land use rights by individuals
Article 178. Agricultural land used by individuals and population communities
Article 179. Agricultural land fund used for public purposes
Article 180. Agricultural land used by organizations, overseas Vietnamese, and foreign-invested economic organizations
Article 181. Land managed and used by agriculture and forestry companies
Article 182. Land used for rice cultivation
Article 183. Land for concentrated animal husbandry
Article 184. Production forest land
Article 185. Protection forest land
Article 186. Special-use forest land
Article 187. Land for salt production
Article 188. Land with water surface being ponds, lakes and lagoons
Article 189. Land with water surface in coastal areas
Article 190. Sea encroachment activities
Article 191. Alluvial land along rivers and sea
Article 192. Concentration of agricultural land
Article 193. Accumulation of agricultural land
Article 194. Land for concentrated zones for farming, planting, production and processing of agricultural, forestry, aquatic and marine products
Article 195. Residential land in rural areas
Article 196. Residential land in urban areas
Article 197. Land for construction of apartment building areas
Article 198. Land use for urban and rural residential area renovation
Article 199. Land for construction of offices of agencies and non-business works
Article 200. Land for national defense and security
Article 201. Use of land for national defense and security combined with labor production and economic construction activities
Article 202. Land for industrial parks and industrial clusters
Article 203. Land used for economic zones
Article 204. Land used for high-tech zones
Article 205. Land used for mineral activities
Article 206. Commercial and service land, land for non-agricultural production facilities
Article 207. Land used for public purposes; land for implementation of investment projects in the form of public-private partnership
Article 208. Land used for civil airports and airfields
Article 209. Land reserved for railways
Article 210. Land for construction of works and areas with safety protection corridors
Article 211. Land with historical – cultural relics, scenic landscapes, and natural heritage
Article 212. Land for religious beliefs
Article 213. Religious land
Article 214. Land for cemeteries, funeral homes, cremation facilities; land for ash storage facilities
Article 215. Land with specialized water surface and land of rivers, streams, canals, ditches and springs
Article 216. Land for construction of underground works
Article 217. Land managed by State agencies and organizations
Article 218. Multi-purpose land use
Article 219. Land use right contribution, land readjustment
Article 220. Land parcel division, consolidation
Article 221. Management of unused land
Article 222. Bringing unused land into use
Chapter XIV LAND-RELATED ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES
Article 223. Land-related administrative procedures
Article 224. Principles for implementation of land-related administrative procedures
Article 225. Announcement and publicization of land-related administrative procedures
Article 226. Responsibility for implementation of land-related administrative procedures
Article 227. Order and procedures for permission of change of land use purpose
Article 228. Order and procedures for land allocation and land lease in case of land allocation and land lease without auction of land use rights, without bidding for selection of investors implementing projects using land, and in case of land allocation and land lease through bidding for selection of investors implementing projects using land
Article 229. Order and procedures for land allocation and land lease through auction of land use rights
Chapter XV SUPERVISION, MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF LAND MANAGEMENT AND USE; INSPECTION, EXAMINATION, AUDIT; SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES, COMPLAINTS, DENUNCIATIONS AND HANDLING OF VIOLATIONS OF LAND LAW
Section 1. SUPERVISION, MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF LAND MANAGEMENT AND USE
Article 230. Supervision by the National Assembly, the Vietnam Fatherland Front and People's Councils at all levels of land management and use
Article 231. Supervision by citizens of land management and use
Article 232. Monitoring and evaluation of land management and use
Article 233. Monitoring and evaluation system for land management and use
Section 2. INSPECTION, EXAMINATION, AUDIT, SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES, COMPLAINTS AND DENUNCIATIONS RELATED TO LAND
Article 234. Specialized inspection, examination and audit of land
Article 235. Conciliation of land disputes
Article 236. Competence to settle land disputes
Article 237. Settlement of complaints and lawsuits about land management
Article 238. Settlement of denunciations about land management and use
Section 3. HANDLING OF VIOLATIONS OF LAND LAW
Article 239. Handling of persons committing violations of land law
Article 240. Handling of persons committing violations of law in land management while performing official duties
Article 241. Responsibilities for detection, prevention and handling of violations of law in land management and use
Article 242. Receipt and handling of violations of heads, civil servants and public employees of land management agencies at all levels and civil servants performing cadastral work at commune level
Chapter XVI IMPLEMENTATION PROVISIONS
Section 1. AMENDMENTS TO A NUMBER OF ARTICLES OF LAWS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY RELATED TO LAND
Article 243. Amendments to a number of articles of the Law on Planning No. 21/2017/QH14, which have been amended according to Law No. 15/2023/QH15, Law No. 16/2023/QH15 and Law No. 28/2023/QH15
Article 244. Amendments to Clause 4, Article 44 of the Law on Fisheries No. 18/2017/QH14
Article 245. Amendments to a number of articles of the Law on Organization of Local Governments No. 77/2015/QH13, which have been amended according to Law No. 21/2017/QH14, Law No. 47/2019/QH14 and Resolution No. 96/2023/QH15
Article 246. Amendments to Clause 4, Article 106 of the Law on Enforcement of Civil Judgments No. 26/2008/QH12, which have been amended according to Law No. 64/2014/QH13, Law No. 23/2018/QH14, Law No. 67/2020/QH14 and Law No. 03/2022/QH15
Article 247. Amendments and supplements to Clause 1, Article 14 of the Law on Personal Income Tax No. 04/2007/QH12, which has been amended and supplemented in some articles according to Law No. 26/2012/QH13 and Law No. 71/2014/QH13
Article 248. Amendments and supplements to some articles of the Law on Forestry No. 16/2017/QH14, which has been amended and supplemented in some articles according to Law No. 16/2023/QH15
Article 249. Amendments and supplements to Clause 3, Article 6 of the Law on Non-Agricultural Land Use Tax No. 48/2010/QH12
Article 250. Amendments and supplements to Clause 3, Article 29 of the Law on Investment No. 61/2020/QH14, which has been amended and supplemented in some articles according to Law No. 72/2020/QH14, Law No. 03/2022/QH15, Law No. 05/2022/QH15, Law No. 08/2022/QH15, Law No. 09/2022/QH15, Law No. 20/2023/QH15, Law No. 26/2023/QH15, Law No. 27/2023/QH15 and Law No. 28/2023/QH15
Article 251. Annulment of some articles of laws and resolutions of the National Assembly related to land
Section 2. EFFECTIVE DATE AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
Article 252. Effective date
Article 253. Transitional provisions on land use planning and plans when this Law takes effect
Article 254. Transitional provisions on land recovery; compensation, support and resettlement when the State recovers land upon the effective date of this Law
Article 255. Transitional provisions on land allocation, land lease, change of land use purpose upon the effective date of this Law
Article 256. Settlement of cadastral records, land registration, and certificate issuance upon the effective date of this Law
Article 257. Settlement of land finance and land prices upon the effective date of this Law
Article 258. Settlement of land use terms upon the effective date of this Law
Article 259. Handling of land use rights of households before the effective date of this Law
Article 260. Transitional provisions for some other cases upon the effective date of this Law

31/2024/QH15 Land Law

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