Land Law No. 31/2024/QH15

Instrument and issuing body

Land Law No. 31/2024/QH15 is a codified Law (Luat) enacted by the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam under the authority of the Constitution. It is the comprehensive statute governing the management and use of land throughout Vietnam, and it forms the successor to the previous Land Law, No. 45/2013/QH13.

The text supplied is an abridged excerpt: the header identifies the issuing body (Quoc hoi), the document number and type, and Chapter I, 'General Provisions', with the article bodies elided. The summary below therefore states the instrument's identity and structural scope; the operative wording of individual articles is not reproduced in the excerpt.

Scope and application

The Law establishes the legal regime for land as a resource owned by the entire people, with the State acting as the representative owner and unified administrator. It applies to State bodies exercising land powers and duties, and to land users, including domestic organisations, households, individuals, residential communities, religious and belief establishments, and foreign-invested and other entities recognised under the Law.

Chapter I sets out the subject matter, the terms defined for the purposes of the Law, the principle of all-people ownership with State representation, the classification of land by use category, and the rights and obligations attaching to that ownership and to land use.

Principal subject areas

As a codifying statute, the Law governs the full life-cycle of land administration and land-use rights. Its principal subject areas include the powers and responsibilities of the State in land management; the rights and obligations of land users; land-use master plans and plans; land allocation, land lease, and change of land-use purpose; land recovery, requisition, compensation, support and resettlement; land valuation and land-related financial obligations; registration of land and issuance of certificates of land-use rights and of ownership of assets attached to land; the land-use regime for the several categories of land; the transfer, monitoring, inspection and dispute resolution functions; and the handling of violations in land management and use.

Effect and status

As the consolidated Land Law adopted by the National Assembly, this instrument replaces the earlier Land Law and serves as the primary legislative basis for subordinate Decrees and Circulars regulating land. The specific effective (enforcement) date and the express repeal clause are set out in the Law's final transitional provisions; those provisions are not contained in the abridged excerpt supplied and so are not reproduced here. Readers requiring the exact enforcement date and the schedule of repealed and amended instruments should consult the concluding chapter of the full text.