Sequence for allowing change of land use purpose

The Lao Dong Newspaper Legal Consulting Office replied:

Article 227 of the 2024 Land Law stipulates the procedures for allowing land use purpose conversion as follows:

Cases of land use purpose conversion must be permitted by competent state agencies as prescribed in this Law and shall be implemented in the following order and procedures:

1. Land users submit a dossier requesting a change of land use purpose according to regulations.

2. The competent land management agency checks the conditions for changing land use purposes. In case the dossier does not meet the regulations, the land user is instructed to supplement the dossier and submit it to the competent land management agency.

3. The competent land management agency is responsible for the following:

a) In case of applying land prices in the land price list to calculate land use fees and land rents, the competent land management agency shall prepare a dossier and submit it to the People's Committee at the competent level to issue a decision allowing the change of land use purpose, land allocation and land lease;

b) In case of determining specific land prices to calculate land use fees and land rents, the competent land management agency shall prepare a dossier and submit it to the People's Committee at the competent level to issue a decision allowing the change of land use purpose, land allocation and land lease; organize the determination of land prices and submit them to the competent authority for approval of land prices for calculating land use fees and land rents.

4. Land users pay land use fees and land rents according to the provisions of law; in case land use fees and land rents are reduced, the land use fees and land rents collection agency shall reduce land use fees and land rents for land users.

5. The competent land management agency signs a land lease contract in cases where the State leases land; transfers the dossier to the land registration organization or a branch of the land registration organization to carry out the registration, issue a Certificate of land use rights and ownership of assets attached to land, update and correct the land database, cadastral records and issue a Certificate of land use rights and ownership of assets attached to land to the land user.

6. In case of receiving a transfer of land use rights and changing the land use purpose, the procedures for registering the transfer of land use rights must be carried out at the same time as the procedures for changing the land use purpose according to the provisions of this Article.

Thus, the procedure for allowing land use purpose change is prescribed as above.