Losing Red book (or “land use right certificate”) can cause some trouble for the owner. This is an important document, proving legal ownership of land and assets attached to land. Then, in the unfortunate case of losing red book, what should individuals and households do to protect their rights?
Upon losing red book, the owner must report and carry out procedures to request on re-issuance
In case of loss of the additional page of red book, the owner must declare the loss to the Commune-level People’s Committee where the land is located and carry out procedures to request the re-issuance of the red book.
The procedures for re-issuance of red book must comply with regulations
To declare to the Commune People’s Committee
The owner declares to the People’s Committee of the commune where the land is located about the loss of the red book.
The Commune-level People’s Committee, based on the request, posts a notice of losing red book at the Commune-level People’s Committee headquarters. Listing time: 15 days.
In case of loss due to natural disaster or fire, it is not obligated to post a notice of loss of the red book. The Commune-level People’s Committee will issue a certificate of natural disaster or fire occurrence to serve the implementation of procedures for the requesting subjects.
To submit application for re-issuance of red book
After 30 days from the date of posting the notice on losing red book, the person wishing to submit 01 set of documents to request re-issuance of red book to the competent state agency.
The land use rights registration office shall:
– Check the dossiers;
– Extract the cadastral map or extract the cadastral measurement of the land plot in cases where there is no cadastral map and the cadastral measurement of the land plot has not been extracted;
– Prepare documents to submit to the competent state agency to sign a decision to cancel validity of the lost additional page of red book, and at the same time sign for re-issuance;
– Correct and update changes in cadastral records and land database;
– Hand-over the additional page of red book to the applicant or send it to the commune-level People’s Committee to hand over in case of submitting documents at the commune level.

Procedures for re-issuance of the lost red books will be processed within the prescribed time
The time for implementation of the administrative procedures will be prescribed by the Provincial People’s Committee, maximum 10 days from the date of receipt of valid documents.
For mountainous communes, islands, remote areas, areas with difficult socio-economic conditions, areas with particularly difficult socio-economic conditions, the implementation time is increased by 10 day.
The results of administrative procedures will be returned to the owner within a maximum of 03 working days from the date of resolution.
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Legal basis:
- Land Law 2013;
- Decree 43/2014/ND-CP guiding the implementation of the Land Law;
- Decree 01/2017/ND-CP amending the decree guiding the Land Law;
- Decree 10/2023/ND-CP amending the Decree guiding the implementation of the Land Law;
- Circular 23/2014/TT-BTNMT on Certificates of land use rights, ownership of houses and other assets attached to land promulgated by the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment.
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