Step 11 of 35 · stage 2, permission to buy
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. A non-agriculturist buyer must get the Collector's prior permission or the transaction is void.
- Official wording
- Confirm agriculturist status, or obtain permission to purchase agricultural land as a non-agriculturist (section 63)
- Where you go
- The Collector and iORA
- Online or in person
- Online application via iORA; decision by the Collector
- What it costs
- No fee published
- How long
- No timing stated
- Record id
- GJ-PERM-01, step 11 of 35
Where you go, and how
Collector, or an officer authorised by the State Government; applied through iORA (iora.gujarat.gov.in)
Mode: Online application via iORA; decision by 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
Not stated The government source for this step does not publish a list of documents. That absence is recorded in the register rather than filled in from an unofficial checklist, so treat any list you are handed elsewhere as somebody's practice rather than as a rule. The document lists that do exist are collected on one page.
The form you fill in
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.
What it costs
No fee published. This is one of the 18 steps of 35 where no government source we read publishes an amount, so nobody can tell you the figure in advance from an official page.
Here is exactly what was searched, quoted from the register's own limitations list:
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 long it takes
No timing stated. A department that does not publish a service standard cannot be held to one, which is worth knowing before you plan around a date.
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.
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.
The same section carries a further proviso that permission shall NOT be granted where agricultural land is sold to a non-agriculturist for agricultural purpose if that person's annual income from other sources exceeds five thousand rupees. Section 63(1A) allows the State Government to exempt, by notification, transfers to a non-profit public charitable trust for health and education use. NO FEE OR STATUTORY TIMELINE for this permission is published on the Revenue Department iORA service page; recorded as null.
The law behind it
Section 63, The Gujarat Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948 (Bombay Act No. LXVII of 1948)
Where this came from, and what comes next
Citation: 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
Government 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 file read: 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)
Last verified: 4 August 2026
- The step before: 10. Check the jantri rate
- The step after: 12. Farmland for an industrial use
- This stage: Permission to buy
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