According to readers' feedback, the family has 200m2 of land, was granted a Right of Use Certificate (red book) in 2015, and now wants to re-determine the boundary to build a house.
Readers have contacted the Commune People's Committee, the Branch of the Land Registration Office, and the Department of Agriculture and Environment, but all received replies that they do not have the authority to determine the boundary.
Readers wonder, which agency has the authority to determine the land plot boundary for cases with certificates according to current regulations?
Responding to this issue, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment said that according to the provisions of Clause 1, Article 31 of the 2024 Land Law, land users must be responsible for using land within the correct boundary and land use markers.
The land user's request to exploit land data information is stipulated in Article 60 of Decree No. 101/2024/ND-CP of the Government regulating basic land investigation; registration, issuance of certificates of land use rights, ownership of assets attached to land and the Land Information System.
Accordingly, the local agency providing information and land data is the Land Registration Office.
For localities that have not yet built a land database, the Land Registration Office and the People's Committee at the commune level are responsible for providing information and land data from cadastral records according to the cadastral records management decentralization.
The implementation of cadastral records management is stipulated in Article 23 of Circular No. 10/2024/TT-BTNMT of the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment (now the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment) regulating cadastral records, land use right certificates, and ownership of assets attached to land.
In particular, it stipulates each specific case of land records kept at agencies including the Land Registration Office under the Department, Branches of the Land Registration Office, and Commune People's Committees.
From the above regulation, the Ministry recommends that citizens contact the competent authority in the locality to resolve according to regulations.
