The law behind it · 7 instruments
Which law is behind each step
Nothing on this site is a rule because an agent said so. Every step rests on a named Act, a rule made under an Act, or one company policy, and this page maps which is which so you can read the source instead of trusting a summary.
Six of the seven are law. The seventh, the DICDL allotment policy, is a company document, and that difference matters: an Act is amended in the legislature and published, while a policy can be revised by the company that wrote it. One step in the register, the title and possession certificate, names no statute at all on its source page, and that is recorded rather than filled in.
The seven instruments
| No. | Law or policy | Steps | What it decides |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Gujarat Land Revenue Code, 1879 | 10 | The oldest law on this site and the one that touches the most steps. |
| 2 | The Registration Act, 1908 | 8 | This is the law that makes a sale of immovable property compulsory to register and that creates the registers a buyer can search. |
| 3 | The Gujarat Stamp Act, 1958 | 3 | The law that decides how much duty is paid on a transfer and, more importantly, on what value. |
| 4 | The Gujarat Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948 | 3 | The law that says who may buy farmland. |
| 5 | The Real Estate Act, 2016 and the Gujarat rules | 4 | The central Act and the Gujarat rules made under it give a buyer somewhere to go when a developer defaults, and they force a developer to register a... |
| 6 | The Gujarat Special Investment Region Act, 2009 | 5 | The law that turns Dholera into a region with its own authority instead of an ordinary set of villages under a district. |
| 7 | The DICDL Land Allotment Policy, 2016 | 3 | Not a statute but the land-owning company's own policy, and the only document in this register that carries a full price schedule. |
A step can rest on more than one instrument, which is why these counts add up to more than 35. Drafting a sale deed, for instance, answers to the Registration Act and the Stamp Act at the same time.
The step that names no law
The register carries one step whose government source cites no statutory provision:
- 24. Title and possession certificate. A single certificate from the revenue authority attesting revenue title and lawful possession, useful for financing and for later transfers.
It is left as it stands. The certificate exists and is applied for on the revenue portal, but the page that offers it does not say under what power it is issued, and this site does not supply a provision the source did not.