The Chairman of the Commune People's Committee has the right to certify transactions related to land users' rights

The Lao Dong Newspaper Legal Consulting Office replied:

Clause 2, Article 1, Decree 280/2025/ND-CP (effective from November 1, 2025) stipulates amending and supplementing a number of articles of Decree No. 23/2015/ND-CP on granting copies from the original book, certifying copies from the original, certifying signatures and certifying contracts and transactions, amended and supplemented by Decree No. 07/2025/ND-CP, stipulating amendments and supplements to Article 5 as follows:

Article 5. Authority and responsibility for certification

1. The Chairman of the People's Committee at the commune level has the authority and responsibility to:

a) Certificate the original of documents and papers issued or certified by competent Vietnamese agencies and organizations; competent foreign agencies and organizations; competent Vietnamese agencies and organizations affiliated with competent foreign agencies and organizations;

b) Certificate the signature in documents and papers;

c) Certificate the signature of the translator in documents and papers from foreign languages to Vietnamese, from Vietnamese to foreign languages;

d) Certificate of transactions related to real estate assets;

d) Certificate of transactions related to the rights of land users according to the provisions of the law on land;

e) Certificate of housing transactions according to the provisions of the law on housing;

g) testate;

h) Certification of documents refusing to receive inheritance;

i) Certification of the document on dividing the inheritance as property specified in Points d, dd and e of this Clause.

Thus, from November 1, 2025, the Chairman of the Commune People's Committee has the right to certify transactions related to the rights of land users according to the provisions of the law on land.