On January 31, 2026, the Government issued Decree 49/2026/ND-CP detailing and guiding a number of articles of Resolution 254/2025/QH15 of the National Assembly stipulating a number of mechanisms and policies to remove difficulties and obstacles in organizing the implementation of the Land Law.
Accordingly, Article 14 stipulates new regulations on the authority to issue Certificates of land use rights, ownership of assets attached to land, confirm changes on the issued certificate, correct, revoke, and cancel the issued certificate as follows:
- Provincial People's Committees have the authority to decide on land recovery, compensation, support, resettlement, land allocation, land lease, permission to change land use purposes, adjust land use term, extension of land use, change of form of land use, recognition of land use rights, approval of agreement on receiving land use rights to implement projects, approval and approval of land use plans.
- Regulations on the authority to issue Certificates of land use rights, ownership of assets attached to land, confirmation of changes on the issued certificate, correction, revocation, and cancellation of the issued certificate:
Based on the Law on Organization of Local Government, Resolution 190/2025/QH15 of the National Assembly on handling a number of issues related to the arrangement of the state apparatus and the actual situation of localities, the Provincial People's Committee decides on the decentralization and authorization of agencies and competent persons to perform the tasks specified in this clause to be appropriate.
(i) Provincial-level land management agencies issue Certificates of land use rights, ownership of assets attached to land or confirm changes in the issued certificate for cases where provincial-level agencies and competent persons decide to allocate land, lease land, allow change of land use purpose, adjust land use term, extend land use term, change of form of land use, recognize land use rights;
(ii) The Chairman of the Commune-level People's Committee issues a Certificate of land use rights, ownership of assets attached to land or confirms changes in the issued certificate for cases where competent agencies and people at the commune level decide to allocate land, lease land, allow change of land use purpose, adjust land use term, extend land use, change form of land use, recognize land use rights, and re-determine residential land area;
(iii) The Land Registration Office issues Certificates of land use rights, ownership of assets attached to land or confirms changes on the issued certificate or first-time land registration, registration of changes for cases not specified in (i) and (ii);
(iv) The competent authority issuing the Certificate of land use rights, ownership of assets attached to land specified in (i), (ii) and (iii) has the authority to correct the certificate issued with errors; revoke, cancel the certificate issued and reissue the Certificate of land use rights, ownership of assets attached to land.
- Cases of land recovery, compensation, support, resettlement, land allocation, land lease, permission to change land use purposes, adjustment of land use term, extension of land use term, change of form of land use, recognition of land use rights, approval of agreement on receiving land use rights to implement projects, approval and approval of land use plans, issuance of Certificates of land use rights, ownership of assets attached to land, confirmation of changes on issued certificates, correction, recovery, cancellation of issued certificates, re-determination of residential land area before the effective date of this Decree, the Provincial People's Committee decides to apply and implement according to the provisions of Clauses 1 and 2 or continue to assign to agencies and competent persons who are resolving to continue to implement.
