Ms. N.T.T in Bac Ninh reflected that in 2000, her family bought a 122.1 m2 plot of land (currently on the cadastral map named N.V.T) from the district enforcement agency (old) but has not yet been granted a red book.
Mrs. T's family is living stably and has built a house on that piece of land. Currently, the family only has a record of land handover on site signed by the commune government, representatives of the District Traffic and Construction Department, the old District Judgment Enforcement Department, the Commune People's Committee, and the village chief; other documents have been lost due to a long time.
Ms. T asked, how and under what conditions should her family be granted a red book?
Her family went to the inter-ward Public Administration Center to ask for procedures and received a request to have a series of documents to prove it, which the family did not have.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment responds to this issue as follows:
The application of policies to review and issue Certificates to households and individuals using land needs to be based on each specific case and needs to be based on the records. Therefore, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has no basis to give a specific answer.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has the following principles:
Current land laws, currently in effect: 2024 Land Law and guiding documents, detailed regulations for implementation (Decree No. 101/2024/ND-CP, Decree No. 151/2025/ND-CP, Decree 226/2025/ND-CP...).
The granting of a First Certificate to a household or individual using land with documents on land use rights as prescribed in Article 137 of the Land Law, without documents on land use rights as prescribed in Article 138 of the Land Law, violating the land law as prescribed in Article 139 of the Land Law, is a case of land allocation without proper authority as prescribed in Article 140 of the Land Law.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment would like to inform citizens and contact competent authorities in the locality for consideration and resolution in accordance with the provisions of law.
