Land Law (No. 04/NA).

This Law makes provision for the management and use of various types of land, including forestry and agricultural land.
Land of the Lao PDR is under the ownership of the national community as prescribed in Article 17 of the Constitution in which the State is charged with the centralized and uniform management of land throughout the country and with the allocation of land to individuals, families and economic organisations for use, lease or concession, the allocation to army units, State organisations, political organisations, the Lao Front for National Construction, and mass organisations for use, and the allocation]to aliens, apatrids, foreign individuals and organisations of such persons for lease or concession.
The State promotes all economic sectors and society to contribute to land development by laying down policies, methods and different measures such as: education, training, creation of funds for the conservation and improvement of land, and the promotion of investment in labour, equipment, capital, technology, infrastructure and effective administration so that it may become of better quality and increase in value. The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry shall be in charge of managing agricultural land, forest land, submerged land, river banks, islands and recovered land. The district or municipal administration shall be in charge of considering and approving the allocation of agricultural land use rights in respect of agricultural land that is under its management to individuals and organisations for use by issuing land certificates to them.
The Law, among other things, further provides for the following: land registration for the purpose of certifying land use rights of individuals or organizations; rights and obligations of land users; control of land use; settlement of land problems; and penal measures.