Do commune-level People’s Committees have right to recover land from households in Vietnam?

Do commune-level People’s Committees have right to recover land from households in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Clauses 1 and 2, Article 66 of the 2013 Land Law, competence to recover land is as follows:

1. Provincial-level People’s Committee may decide on land expropriation in the following cases:

a/ Recovery of land from organizations, religious institutions, overseas Vietnamese, foreign organizations with diplomatic functions, and foreign-invested enterprises, excluding the case prescribed at Point b, Clause 2 of this Article;

b/ Recovery of agricultural land which is part of the public land funds of communes, wards or townships.

2. District-level People’s Committees may decide on land expropriation in the following cases:

a/ Recovery of land from households, individuals and communities;

b/ Recovery of land from overseas Vietnamese who are allowed to own houses in Vietnam.

Thus, with the right to recover land from households in Vietnam, it belongs to the District-level People’s Committees. Currently, there is no document allowing this land recovery authority to belong to the commune-level People’s Committees.

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