1. People can choose a place to submit land documents in the same province
Accordingly, Article 18 of Decree 151/2025/ND-CP stipulates regulations related to procedures and records for land registration, assets attached to land, and cadastral records as follows:
- When submitting the application as prescribed in Clause 3 and Clause 4, Article 21 of Decree 101/2024/ND-CP, the candidate can choose one of the places to submit the application at the provincial level.
- The cadastral records in Clause 1, Article 128 of the 2024 Land Law are gathered according to commune-level administrative units.
- The land administrative procedure handling agency is not required to require the land user to revise records and documents related to land after the arrangement and organization of local government at 2 levels, but must do so simultaneously when the land user performs administrative procedures or based on the needs of the land user.
- Commune-level People's Committees when carrying out procedures for granting Certificates of land use rights and ownership of assets attached to land in Articles 137, 138, 139 and 140 of the 2024 Land Law do not have to alone confirm compliance with planning, no disputes, and stable land use.
Thus, according to the above regulations, from July 1, 2025, land registration candidates can choose one of the places to submit documents at the provincial level.
2. Chairman of the People's Committee at the commune level is authorized to issue red books
According to Clause 1, Article 5 of Decree 151/2025/ND-CP, the authority of the People's Committee at the district level according to the provisions of the 2024 Land Law is transferred to the Chairman of the People's Committee at the commune level with:
- Issuance of Certificate of land use rights and ownership of assets attached to land (red book) as prescribed in Point b, Clause 1, Article 136 and Point d, Clause 2, Article 142 of the 2024 Land Law;
- Re-determining the residential land area and granting a Certificate of land use rights and ownership of assets attached to land as prescribed in Clause 6, Article 141 of the 2024 Land Law.
3. Additional cases of red book issuance
According to Section 7 (C) Part V of Appendix I issued with Decree 151/2025/ND-CP, the procedures for issuing and exchanging issued Certificates (red books) include the following cases:
Land users who need to change the Certificate issued before August 1, 2024 to a Certificate of land use rights and ownership of assets attached to land; Certificates issued with stains, Vuins, tears, or damages; Certificates issued together for many plots of land but issued separately for each plot of land according to the needs of land users and in cases of issuance of a new Certificate of land use rights and ownership of assets attached to land according to regulations.
In addition, the issuance and renewal of Certificates are also applied to the following cases:
- The purpose of land use stated on the issued Certificate according to the provisions of the law on land at the time of issuance of the issued Certificate is different from the purpose of land use according to the land classification prescribed in Article 9, the 2024 Land Law and the Government's Decree detailing the implementation of a number of articles of the Land Law;
- The location of the land plot on the issued Certificate is not accurate compared to the actual location of land use at the time of issuance of the issued Certificate;
- Land use rights, ownership rights of assets attached to land are common property of the husband and wife, but the issued Certificate only records the full name of the wife or husband, now there is a requirement to reissue the Certificate of land use rights, ownership rights of assets attached to land to record the full name, wife and family name, husband's name;
- The issued certificate records the household's name, now members sharing the land use rights of that household request to issue a new Certificate of land use rights and ownership of assets attached to the land to record the full name of the member sharing the land use rights of the household or change the size of the edges, area, and number of the land plot due to measurement, cadastral map making, and cadastral measurement of the land plot without changing the land plot boundary.
