The purpose of this Order is to guarantee the accomplishment of the Presidential Decree No. 337 of 1996 "On carrying into effect the constitutional right of the citizens on land". This Order entitles the State Committee on Land, in accordance with the Ministry of Agriculture and Food and the Ministry of Justice, to validate the forms of contract dealing with the transfer of the land shares in leasehold to agricultural enterprises, farmers, to stock capital of the agricultural enterprises.

The President, for the purpose of promoting effectual land tenure, decrees that the priorities of purchase of the plots of land (or the shares of them), on which are situated previously privatized edifices, have physical and juridical persons that own these edifices. The Decree establishes that the property put on sale regards plots of land (or the shares of them) that had been previously conceded to a tenant or a leaseholder on condition of permanent (limitless) tenure, lifelong ownership with the right of inheritance or of limited tenure, including rent.

The provisions of section 61 of Commonwealth Act No.

This Decree establishes that the forms of Certificate of landownership can be used provisionally, till the issues of the state legal form, as a document for lifelong ownership valid for inheritance and limitless (permanent) land lease. This Decree validates the forms of Certificate of landownership, Contract of tenancy for agricultural land, Contract of temporal leasehold of agricultural land. The forms of these documents are supplied in Annexes.

This Joint Regulating Decree establishes that state colleges, scientific, experimental, training, research institutions and centres of agricultural and forest specialisation, branches of the Academy of Sciences, of the Academy of Medical Sciences, of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Academy of Education are exempted from the payment of the royalties for the use of land.

The State Treasury validates amendments and additions No. 4 to the Regulation of the State Treasury No. 29 of 1995 regarding the application of the Law "On royalties for the use of land" according to the Annex. This document has been previously approved by the Ministry of Finance and by the State Committee on Land Resources and Land Survey. Regulation 1 is modified as follows: paragraph 5 is supplemented with point 25.

Various definitions set out in sections 4 and 5 are modified notably the definition of "leasehold tenancy". Section 9, providing for contractual implications in the case of severance of relationship between landlord and tenant, is completely rewritten. The tenant shall have the right to change the tenancy contract from a share tenancy to leasehold tenancy and vice versa and from one crop sharing arrangement to another (sect. 14). The landholder shall have the right to choose the kind of crop and the seeds that the tenant shall plant in his holdings (sect. 25).

An Act to govern the relationship between landholders and tenants of agricultural lands.The Act is divided into 4 Parts: General provisions (I); The Share System (II); The Leasehold Tenancy (III); Security of tenure (IV).It is the purpose of this Act to "establish agricultural tenancy relations between landholders and tenants upon the principle of "school" justice; to afford adequate protection to the rights of both tenants and landholders; to ensure an equitable division of the produce and income derived from the land; to provide tenant-farmers with incentives to greater and more efficient

This Act, consisting of 74 sections divided into seven Parts and completed by six Schedules, makes provision for the tenure, management, and alienation of crown lands. "Crown lands" means land which is vested in the Crown, and which is not contracted to be granted in fee simple; and includes land granted in fee simple which has revested in the Crown by way of purchase or otherwise. Subject to this Act the Minister has power to manage and dispose of all Crown land. Land districts and parishes existing at the commencement of this Act are continued for the purposes of this Act.

This Act, consisting of 11 sections completed by one Schedule, aims to define certain aspects of forestry rights. "Forestry right" in this Act means a right granted by the owner of any land to any other person to: (a) establish, maintain and harvest; or (b) maintain and harvest crop of trees on that land, together with any ancillary rights and works; and (d) any provisions for charges, payments, royalties or division of the crop or the proceeds of the crop.

A Decree to provide for fees for the use of State land by private parties and land registration. A user of land that is entrusted the state to him for purpose of agricultural and forestry production, breeding of sea products, and producing salt, shall pay land using fees when using the land for other than allowed purposes. Organizations, families, individuals shall pay cadastral fees in the following cases: granting the land use right certificate; certifying the registration of the change on land; extracting the cadastral file.

A Decree to provide for ownership, allotment, use, registration of residential land and houses by citizens of Viet Nam and leasehold by foreigners, and in relation to this the assignment of title, the issue of certificates, settlement of disputes and other matters. The State recognises and protects the lawful title to residential houses and lawful right to the use of residential land. All residential houses and land must be registered. The lawful owners are issued the certificate of residential house title and residential land use right.