According to Clause 8, Article 45 of the 2024 Land Law, cases not eligible for transfer or donation of land use rights include:
Case 1: Economic organizations are not allowed to receive transfers of rights to use protective forest land and special-use forest land from individuals, except in cases where the land use purpose is changed according to the planning and land use plan approved by competent authorities;
Case 2: Individuals not living in protected forests or special-use forests are not allowed to receive transfers or gifts of land use rights for residential land and other land in protected forests or in strictly protected sub-zones or ecological restoration sub-zones in those special-use forests;
Case 3: Organizations, individuals, communities, religious organizations, affiliated religious organizations, people of Vietnamese origin residing abroad, economic organizations with foreign investment capital that are not allowed by law to receive transfers or gifts of land use rights.
