Clause 3, Article 22 of Decree 151/2025/ND-CP guides the handling of cases where there is a decision to reclaim land, compensate, support, and resettle before July 1, 2025 as follows:
- In case the District People's Committee has issued a decision approving the compensation, support and resettlement plan according to the provisions of the 2024 Land Law before July 1, 2025 but has not issued a decision to reclaim land, the Chairman of the Commune People's Committee shall continue to carry out procedures according to the authority prescribed by the 2024 Land Law and Decree 151/2025/ND-CP for the area in the commune-level area;
- In case the procedures for compensation, support, resettlement, and land recovery are being implemented according to the provisions of Article 87 of the 2024 Land Law before July 1, 2025 but the decision to approve the compensation, support, and resettlement plan has not been issued, the Chairman of the People's Committee at the commune level shall continue to carry out the steps prescribed by the 2024 Land Law and Decree 151/2025/ND-CP for the area in the commune-level area;
- In case there is a decision to enforce the implementation of the land recovery decision according to the provisions of the 2024 Land Law before July 1, 2025 but the enforcement has not been organized, the Chairman of the People's Committee at the commune level shall carry out the enforcement according to the provisions of the 2024 Land Law and Decree 151/2025/ND-CP;
- In case the organization implementing land valuation, the organization performing compensation, support and resettlement tasks is performing tasks according to the provisions of the 2024 Land Law before July 1, 2025 but has not completed its tasks, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee shall decide to continue performing this task in accordance with each specific case.
* In case the project has a part of the land area that has approved the compensation, support and resettlement plan according to regulations issued by the Provincial People's Committee under the authority assigned in the 2024 Land Law and documents guiding the implementation of the Land Law, but before July 1, 2025, the land area has not yet approved the plan, the Provincial People's Committee will decide after the arrangement to choose the regulations on compensation, support and resettlement issued for implementation.
* In case the application for land allocation, land lease, or land use purpose change has been submitted before July 1, 2025 but has not been resolved by the competent authority, the following shall be done:
- In case it is under the authority of the Provincial People's Committee as prescribed by law before July 1, 2025, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee shall handle it according to the procedures prescribed by the Land Law before July 1, 2025;
- In case it is under the authority of the People's Committee at the district level as prescribed by law before July 1, 2025, the Chairman of the People's Committee at the commune level will now handle it according to the order and procedures prescribed in Decree 151/2025/ND-CP;
- Land lease contracts that were signed before the effective date of this Decree shall continue to be valid until the term stated in the contract expires.
* The dossier for land registration, assets attached to land, issuance of Certificates of land use rights, and ownership of assets attached to land that have been received before July 1, 2025 but have not been resolved by competent authorities shall be implemented as follows:
- In case under the authority of the Provincial People's Committee as prescribed by law before July 1, 2025, it will now be resolved according to the procedures prescribed by the Land Law before July 1, 2025;
- In case it is under the authority of the People's Committee at the district level as prescribed by law before July 1, 2025, the Chairman of the People's Committee at the commune level will now handle it according to the procedures prescribed in Decree 151/2025/ND-CP.
In case localities are developing land price lists to announce and apply from January 1, 2026, now implementing the 2-level local government model, the provincial People's Committee of the new administrative unit will continue to carry out the task of developing land price lists to promptly announce and apply from January 1, 2026 according to the law.
