Exempted lands

The Gujarat Agricultural Land Ceiling Act-1960

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(1) The following lands shall be exempted from the provisions of this Act, that is to say—
- (a) lands belonging to, or held on lease, by Government or land held on lease from Government for a period not exceeding twenty years;
- (b) lands belonging to, or held on lease from or by, a local authority or a University established by law in the State of Gujarat;
- (c) lands situated in any area which has been specified as being reserved for non-agricultural or industrial development under the relevant tenancy law;
- (d) lands which are the property of a public trust for an educational purpose, hospital, Panjrapole, Gaushala, or an institution for public religious worship, provided that the entire income of such lands is appropriated for the purpose of such trust; Explanation.—For the purpose of clause
- (d) a certificate granted by the Collector after holding an inquiry, that the conditions mentioned in the said clause are satisfied by a public trust shall be conclusive evidence in that behalf;
- (e) lands assigned or donated by any person before the commencement of this Act for the purpose of rendering any of the following services useful to the community, namely— maintenance of water works, lighting or filling of water troughs for cattle;
- (f) lands leased to or held by an industrial undertaking which in the opinion of the State Government bona fide carries on any industrial operation and which is approved by the State Government;
- (g) lands leased to or held by any bodies or persons other than those mentioned in clause
- (f) for the growing of fruit trees and used for that purpose for a period of not less than three years immediately preceding the appointed day;
- (h) lands held or leased by the Land Mortgage Banks;
  - (i) lands held or leased by such co-operative societies as are approved in the prescribed manner by the State Government and as have for their objects the improvement of the economic and social conditions of peasants or ensuring the full and efficient use of land for agriculture;
- (j) lands held by a Bhoodan Samiti recognised by the State Government in this behalf;
- (k) compact blocks of lands held by a person whose principal source of income is from the lands held by him in the compact block,—
  - (i) where heavy investment or permanent structural improvements have been made, and
  - (ii) certified by the Collector as so efficiently managed that the breaking of the block is likely to lead to a fall in production, and
  - (iii) approved by the State Government as an efficiently managed compact block: Provided that in giving its approval the State Government may impose such conditions as to the production of improved seeds, trial of new varieties of crops, maintenance of high standards of agriculture, wages of workers working on the land, subject to any law pertaining to minimum wages and adoption of improved methods of agriculture and sale of marketable surplus of agricultural produce to Government.
(2) An exempted land shall cease to be exempted land if it ceases to satisfy the requirements of the provisions of sub-section
(1) applicable thereto.

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