Granting red books for land with an area smaller than the minimum area

Lao Dong Newspaper Legal Consulting Office replied:

Red book is what people call the land use rights certificate.

Article 146 of the 2024 Land Law (effective from August 2024) stipulates the issuance of certificates of land use rights and ownership of assets attached to land in cases where the land plot has an area smaller than the minimum area as follows:

1. The land plot in use was formed before the effective date of the document of the Provincial People's Committee on the minimum area for land division, and the land plot area is smaller than the minimum area prescribed by the Provincial People's Committee but meets the conditions for granting a certificate of land use rights and ownership of assets attached to the land, then the person using the land shall be granted a certificate of land use rights and ownership of assets attached to the land.

2. Not to issue a certificate of land use rights and ownership of assets attached to land in cases of self-division or separation of registered land plots, which have been granted a certificate of land use rights or a certificate of house ownership and land use rights or a certificate of land use rights, house ownership and other assets attached to land or a certificate of land use rights, ownership of assets attached to land into 02 or more land plots, of which at least 01 land plot has an area smaller than the minimum area for separation as prescribed in Article 220 of this Law.

3. In case a land plot has been granted a land use right certificate or a house ownership right certificate and land use right certificate or a land use right certificate, house ownership right and other assets attached to land or a land use right certificate, ownership of assets attached to land, and the land user has a need to separate or consolidate the plots, if meeting all the conditions prescribed in Article 220 of this Law, he/she shall be granted a land use right certificate, ownership of assets attached to land for each land plot after separation or consolidation.

Thus, the granting of land use right certificates for land plots with an area smaller than the minimum area prescribed above.