Stage 2 of 8 · 4 steps
Permission to buy
Who is allowed to buy farmland in Gujarat, and whose permission is needed?
Gujarat does not let everybody buy farmland, and it does not let every piece of farmland be sold freely. These four steps decide whether your purchase is lawful at all, and the Collector rather than the seller decides three of them. Get this wrong and the sale is not merely risky, it is void, which is a far worse position than an unregistered document.
The steps in this stage
- Step 11
Permission to buy farmland. Section 63 makes a sale, gift, exchange, lease or mortgage of agricultural land INVALID in favour of a person who is not an agriculturist. - Step 12
Farmland for an industrial use. Lets a non-agriculturist buy agricultural land for a bona fide industrial purpose without a section 63 permission, provided the statutory conditions... - Step 13
Premium to lift a tenure restriction. New-tenure (navi sharat) and impartible land cannot be freely sold. - Step 14
Permission when the seller is Scheduled Tribe. Land held by a person belonging to a Scheduled Tribe cannot be sold without permission.
What this stage costs and how long it takes
A fee is published for 1 of these 4 steps and a timing for 1. The wording below is the government's own, shortened where it runs long; the full text sits on each step page.
| Step | What you are doing | What it costs | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11GJ-PERM-01 | Permission to buy farmland | No fee published | No timing stated |
| 12GJ-PERM-02 | Farmland for an industrial use | No application fee is stated. | The purchaser shall, WITHIN THIRTY DAYS from the date of purchase, send notice of the purchase to the... |
| 13GJ-PERM-03 | Premium to lift a tenure restriction | No fee published | No timing stated |
| 14GJ-PERM-04 | Permission when the seller is Scheduled Tribe | No fee published | No timing stated |
Who you are dealing with
These steps are handled by 1 office. Each one has a page of its own setting out what it does, what it charges and whether the work can be done online.
- The Collector, through the iORA portal. The Collector decides whether you may buy the land at all and whether it may be used for anything other than farming.
What is missing in this stage
These are the declared gaps that touch the steps above, quoted from the register's own limitations list. They are printed rather than filled.
- 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.
- Gap 6. Premium rate for converting new-tenure / impartible land to old tenure (section 43 Tenancy Act, section 65 route): NOT PUBLISHED as a rate.
Before and after this stage
- Before this: Stage 1, Checks before you pay
- After this: Stage 3, Permission to stop farming the land
- All 35 steps in one table