Step 12 of 35 · record GJ-PERM-02 · stage 2
Buy agricultural land for a bona fide industrial purpose under section 63AA and file the 30-day notice
Lets a non-agriculturist buy agricultural land for a bona fide industrial purpose without a section 63 permission, provided the statutory conditions are met, and gets the Collector's certificate that validates the purchase. This is the route most industrial buyers in and around Dholera use. This step is owned by Collector (certificate); copy of the notice endorsed to the Mamlatdar.. A statutory fee is published for it. A timeline is stated in the source. Source type: OFFICIAL, value date Act as modified up to 31 January 2018; iORA service list retrieved 2026-08-04.
- Record id
- GJ-PERM-02
- Stage
- 2. Permission to buy · Permission to buy
- Step number
- 12 of 35
- Office or portal
- Collector (certificate); copy of the notice endorsed to the Mamlatdar. Applied through iORA.
- Online or offline
- Online application via iORA; statutory notice to the Collector
- Statutory basis
- Section 63AA, The Gujarat Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948
- Prerequisites listed
- 2
- Source type
- OFFICIAL
Source: gujact_19092023.pdf pp.76-77: conditions (a) land not within an urban agglomeration as defined in the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act 1976; (b) previous permission of the Industries Commissioner where area exceeds ten hectares; (c) area sold shall not exceed four times the area on which construction for a bona fide industrial purpose is proposed; (d) section 73AA applies where the seller belongs to a Scheduled Tribe. Sub-section (3)(a) thirty-day notice; (3)(b) fine not exceeding two thousand rupees; (4)(b) five-year production deadline.
Official page: https://revenuedepartment.gujarat.gov.in/iora-service
Value date: Act as modified up to 31 January 2018; iORA service list retrieved 2026-08-04
Local artefact: gujact_19092023.pdf, section 63AA at pages 76-77 of the PDF (printed pages 64-65)
What this step achieves
Lets a non-agriculturist buy agricultural land for a bona fide industrial purpose without a section 63 permission, provided the statutory conditions are met, and gets the Collector's certificate that validates the purchase. This is the route most industrial buyers in and around Dholera use.
The form named in the official source
iORA service 14: 'પ્રામાણિક ઔદ્યોગિક હેતુ માટે ગણોતધારાની કલમ-૬૩એએ અન્વયે પ્રમાણપત્ર મેળવવાની અરજી'. The 30-day notice must be 'in such a form ... as may be prescribed' - the prescribed form number is not given in the Act text.
Statutory fee
No application fee is stated. A PENALTY is stated: failure to send the notice within 30 days makes the purchaser liable, in addition to the non-agricultural assessment, to a fine not exceeding two thousand rupees as the Collector may direct.
Timeline stated in the source
The purchaser shall, WITHIN THIRTY DAYS from the date of purchase, send notice of the purchase to the Collector and endorse a copy to the Mamlatdar. Where a certificate is issued, the purchaser shall commence production of goods or provision of services WITHIN FIVE YEARS from that date.
Prerequisite documents
- Notice of purchase in the prescribed form with the prescribed particulars
- Previous permission of the Industries Commissioner, Gujarat State (or an officer authorised by the State Government) where the land area exceeds ten hectares
Notes recorded with this step
How we know
Every figure above is quoted from the source named in the record slip, with its value date. Nothing on this page has been converted, rounded, averaged or carried across from another state or another year. Where the source is silent, the page says so and links to the declared gap that records what was searched.
Value date: Act as modified up to 31 January 2018; iORA service list retrieved 2026-08-04
Status: OFFICIAL. Blog source used: no. Last verified: 2026-08-04.