THE GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No: 68/2001/ND-CP
Hanoi, October 01, 2001
 
DECREE
ON LAND USE PLANNING AND PLAN
THE GOVERNMENT
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government of September 30, 1992;
Pursuant to the July 14, 1993 Land Law and the December 2, 1998 Law Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Land Law; the June 29, 2001 Law Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Land Law;
At the proposal of the General Director of the General Land Administration,
DECREES:
Chapter I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1.- Scope of regulation
This Decree provides for the elaboration, consideration, approval and management of land use plannings and plans.
Article 2.- Elaborating the land use plannings and plans
1. The Government assigns the General Land Administration to assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with the concerned ministries and branches in drawing up national land use planning and plans.
2. The People’s Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities, the People’s Committees of the districts, provincial towns and cities, the People’s Committees of the communes, wards and townships shall elaborate the plannings and plans for land use in their respective localities.
3. The Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Public Security shall elaborate the planning and plan for land use for defense and security purposes.
Article 3.- Competence to approve the land use plannings and plans
1. The Government shall examine and approve the land use plannings and plans of the People’s Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities, the annually adjusted and supplemented plans and the five-year land use plans of the People’s Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities; the planning and plan of land use for defense and security purposes.
2. The higher-level People’s Committees shall examine and approve the annual land use plannings and plans of the immediate lower-level People’s Committees.
Article 4.- Competence to adjust and supplement the land use plannings and plans.
The State bodies competent to examine and approve the land use plannings and plans defined in Article 3 of this Decree shall have the competence to decide on the adjustment of and supplements to, the land use plannings and plans under their ratification competence.
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