Pursuant to Article 66 of the 2013 Land Law, the authority to issue recovery decisions is prescribed as follows: People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities (provincial People's Committees) Provincial-level People's Committees shall decide to withdraw in the following cases: Withdrawal from organizations, religious establishments, overseas Vietnamese, foreign organizations with diplomatic functions, foreign-invested enterprises, except for cases where residential land is recovered from people. Overseas Vietnamese are allowed to own houses in Vietnam. To recover agricultural land belonging to the public land fund of communes, wards and townships. People's Committees of districts, towns, provincial cities (District People's Committees) The district-level People's Committee shall decide to withdraw in the following cases: Recovery of land from households, individuals and communities; Recovery of residential land of overseas Vietnamese who are entitled to own houses in Vietnam.