section 5
Ceiling area
The Gujarat Agricultural Land Ceiling Act-1960Civil196055 sections
Statutory text
- (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections
- (2) and (3), in relation to each class of local area as specified in Schedule I, the ceiling area with reference to each class of land shall be as specified in the said Schedule against the respective class of local area.
- (2) Where a person holds land consisting of different classes in the same class of local area, then for determining the question whether the total land held by him is less than, equal to, or more than, the ceiling area, the acreage of each class of land held by such person shall be converted into the acreage of dry crop land on the basis of the proportion which the ceiling area for the class of land to be so converted bears to the ceiling area for dry crop land.
- (3) Where a person holds land, whether consisting of different classes of land or not, in different classes of local areas, the question whether the total land held by him is less than, equal to, or more than, the ceiling area, shall be determined as follows, that is to say—
- (i) the acreage of each class of land held by the person in each class of local area shall be first converted into the acreage of dry crop land in that local area in accordance with sub-section
- (2) and the total acreage so arrived at shall be expressed in terms of a multiple or as the case may be, a fraction of such ceiling area:
- (ii) the multiple or fraction so expressed in the case of each of the local areas shall be added together;
- (iii) the person shall be deemed to hold land less than, equal to, or more than, the ceiling area according as the sum total of the multiples and fractions under clause
- (ii) is less than, equal to, or more than, one.
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