Step 12 of 35 · stage 2, permission to buy
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 are met, and gets the Collector's certificate that validates the purchase. This is the route most industrial buyers in and around Dholera use.
- Official wording
- Buy agricultural land for a bona fide industrial purpose under section 63AA and file the 30-day notice
- Where you go
- The Collector and iORA
- Online or in person
- Online application via iORA; statutory notice to the Collector
- What it costs
- No application fee is stated.
- How long
- The purchaser shall, WITHIN THIRTY DAYS from the date of purchase, send notice of the...
- Record id
- GJ-PERM-02, step 12 of 35
Where you go, and how
Collector (certificate); copy of the notice endorsed to the Mamlatdar. Applied through iORA.
Mode: Online application via iORA; statutory notice to the Collector
This office handles 5 of the 35 steps in the register. What else it does, and what it charges.
What to have with you
The source names 2 things the office asks for. Take them all in one go and the visit is usually one visit.
- 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
Quoted from the prerequisite list in the register. Where the source names a detail rather than a document, such as a survey number, it is listed as the source words it.
The form you fill in
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.
What it costs
Quoted from the government source, in its own words:
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.
No part of this figure has been rounded, converted or updated by us. If the department has revised it since 4 August 2026, the correction address is in the footer. Every published fee in the register sits on one page.
How long it takes
Quoted from the source, in its own words:
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.
The clock runs against you. Thirty days to give the Collector notice of the purchase, and five years to start production. That is our reading of the wording printed above, which is why the wording is printed above.
The nine stated timings in the register are compared on one page.
What to watch out for
The register keeps a note against this step. It is the part most people find out too late, so it is printed in full rather than summarised.
If the Collector is not satisfied and refuses the certificate, the sale is DEEMED TO BE IN CONTRAVENTION OF SECTION 63 - i.e. void. The purchaser may appeal to the State Government or an authorised officer. Land additionally required for pollution control measures is excluded from the four-times-area computation. Parallel certificates exist under Saurashtra Gharkhed Act section 55 (iORA row 15) and Bombay Tenancy (Vidarbha and Kutch) Act 1958 section 89A (row 16).
The law behind it
Section 63AA, The Gujarat Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948
Where this came from, and what comes next
Citation: 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.
Government 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 file read: gujact_19092023.pdf, section 63AA at pages 76-77 of the PDF (printed pages 64-65)
Last verified: 4 August 2026
- The step before: 11. Permission to buy farmland
- The step after: 13. Premium to lift a tenure restriction
- This stage: Permission to buy
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