On the Government Information Portal, citizens reflected that on December 12, 1990, Hai Phong City People's Committee issued a decision approving the plan to allocate land to workers to build houses in 1990 in An Dong commune.
At that time, Mr. S was one of the workers who had been allocated land by Thong Nhat Textile Shoe Factory. However, Mr. S only received a land handover record from the factory without the approval decision of the City People's Committee.
Because Thong Nhat Textile Shoe Factory has dissolved and the decision storage time is also long, Mr. S's search and request to provide this decision is impossible to implement.
Currently, Mr. S is preparing to carry out procedures for registration and first red book for the land plot allocated more than 30 years ago. The current documents are the land handover record (not recording the date and month), Land use fee payment slip dated June 4, 1991, without the stamp of the money collection agency but only the signature of the cashier and payment officer.
The citizen asked, is Mr. S eligible to be granted a red book? If he is granted a red book, according to what regulations of the 2024 Land Law, Decree 151/2025/ND-CP and does Mr. S have to pay land use fees?
Regarding this issue, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has the following opinions:
The application of policies to consider and issue certificates to households and individuals using land needs to be based on each specific case, based on land management records and based on documents detailing the implementation of the Land Law of the locality that have been issued under assigned authority. Therefore, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has no basis to answer specifically.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has opinions on the following principles:
Current land law has regulations on issuing certificates of land use rights and ownership of other assets attached to land for the first time to individuals and households using land in Articles 137, 138, 139, 140 and 141 of the 2024 Land Law.
The order and procedures for registering land and assets attached to land for the first time for individuals, residential communities, and households using land and the order and procedures for issuing Certificates of land use rights and ownership of assets attached to land for the first time are specified in Section II and Section V of Content C, Part V, Appendix I issued together with Decree No. 151/2025/ND-CP dated June 12, 2025 of the Government regulating the decentralization of authority of local authorities at 2 levels, decentralization, and decentralization in the field of land.
At the same time, the Minister of Agriculture and Environment has issued Decisions: No. 2304/QD-BNNMT dated June 23, 2024, No. 3380/QD-BNNMT dated August 25, 2025 announcing administrative procedures in the land sector within the scope of state management functions of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, accordingly, specific land procedures have been regulated, including: (1) Procedures for implementation; (2) Methods of implementation; (3) Composition, number of dossiers; (4) Time of resolution; (5) Subjects of administrative procedures; (6) Agencies performing administrative procedures; (7) Results of administrative procedures; (8) Fees and charges; (9) Form names, declarations; (10) Requirements and conditions for administrative procedures (if any); (11) Legal basis of administrative procedures.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment informs citizens to know, research, and contact competent authorities in the locality for settlement according to regulations.
