What are the regulations on land ownership and land users?
(Baonghean) - Question: How does the Land Law (amended in 2013) regulate land ownership and land users?
Answer: Land is owned by the entire people and is represented and managed by the State. The State grants land use rights to land users according to the provisions of this law (Article 4).
Land users are allocated land by the State, leased land, recognized land use rights, and receive land use rights transfers according to the provisions of this law, including:
1. Domestic organizations include state agencies, people's armed forces units, political organizations, socio-political organizations, economic organizations, socio-political-professional organizations, social organizations, socio-professional organizations, public service organizations and other organizations as prescribed by the law on civil affairs (hereinafter referred to as organizations);
2. Domestic households and individuals (hereinafter referred to as households and individuals);
3. Residential communities include Vietnamese communities living in the same hamlet, village, hamlet, village, village, phum, soc and similar residential areas with the same customs, practices or the same family lineage;
4. Religious establishments include pagodas, churches, chapels, temples, shrines, Buddhist prayer halls, monasteries, religious training schools, headquarters of religious organizations and other religious establishments;
5. Foreign organizations with diplomatic functions include diplomatic representative agencies, consular agencies, other representative agencies of foreign countries with diplomatic functions recognized by the Government of Vietnam; representative agencies of organizations under the United Nations, intergovernmental agencies or organizations, representative agencies of intergovernmental organizations;
6. Vietnamese people residing abroad according to the provisions of the law on nationality;
7. Foreign-invested enterprises include 100% foreign-invested enterprises, joint venture enterprises, Vietnamese enterprises in which foreign investors purchase shares, merge, or acquire according to the provisions of the law on investment (Article 5).
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