Step 11 of 35 · record GJ-PERM-01 · stage 2
Confirm agriculturist status, or obtain permission to purchase agricultural land as a non-agriculturist (section 63)
Section 63 makes a sale, gift, exchange, lease or mortgage of agricultural land INVALID in favour of a person who is not an agriculturist. A non-agriculturist buyer must get the Collector's prior permission or the transaction is void. This step is owned by Collector, or an officer authorised by the State Government; applied through iORA (iora.gujarat.gov.in). No statutory fee is published for it. No timeline is stated in the source. Source type: OFFICIAL, value date Act as modified up to 31 January 2018 (title page of gujact_19092023.pdf); iORA service....
- Record id
- GJ-PERM-01
- Stage
- 2. Permission to buy · Permission to buy
- Step number
- 11 of 35
- Office or portal
- Collector, or an officer authorised by the State Government; applied through iORA (iora.gujarat.gov.in)
- Online or offline
- Online application via iORA; decision by the Collector
- Statutory basis
- Section 63, The Gujarat Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948 (Bombay Act No. LXVII of 1948)
- Prerequisites listed
- 0
- Source type
- OFFICIAL
Source: gujact_19092023.pdf p.75: '...shall be valid in favour of a person who is not an agriculturist [or who being an agriculturist cultivates personally land not less than the ceiling area ...] Provided that the Collector or an officer authorised by the State Government in this behalf may grant permission for such sale, gift, exchange, lease or mortgage ... on such conditions as may be prescribed'; https://revenuedepartment.gujarat.gov.in/iora-service row 17 and row 20
Official page: https://revenuedepartment.gujarat.gov.in/iora-service
Value date: Act as modified up to 31 January 2018 (title page of gujact_19092023.pdf); iORA service list retrieved 2026-08-04
Local artefact: gujact_19092023.pdf (The Gujarat Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948, as modified up to 31 January 2018), section 63 at page 75 of the PDF (printed page 63)
What this step achieves
Section 63 makes a sale, gift, exchange, lease or mortgage of agricultural land INVALID in favour of a person who is not an agriculturist. A non-agriculturist buyer must get the Collector's prior permission or the transaction is void.
The form named in the official source
iORA service 17: 'ગણોતધારાની કલમ-૬૩ મુજબ ખેતીની જમીન ખરીદવા બાબતની પરવાનગી મેળવવાની અરજી'. Parallel services exist for Saurashtra Gharkhed Act section 54 (row 18) and Bombay Tenancy (Vidarbha Region and Kutch Area) Act 1958 section 89 (row 19). A farmer applicant can first obtain the khedut khatedar verification certificate via iORA service 20.
Statutory fee
Not stated No official fee published, gap 5
Timeline stated in the source
Not stated No timeline stated, gap 5
Prerequisite documents
Not stated The source names no prerequisite document list for this step.
Notes recorded with this step
Declared gaps that touch this step
- Gap 5: Section 63 permission (non-agriculturist buying agricultural land): NO FEE AND NO STATUTORY TIMELINE published on the Revenue Department iORA service table or in the Act text. Recorded as null.
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 (title page of gujact_19092023.pdf); iORA service...
Status: OFFICIAL. Blog source used: no. Last verified: 2026-08-04.