Part -IV Extra Legislative & Parliamentary Affairs Department

Extra No. 2 © The Gujarat Government Gazette EXTRAORDINARY PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY Vol. LXVII ] FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2026 / PHALGUNA 8, 1947 Separate paging is given to this part in order that it may be filed as a Separate Compilation.

PART IV Acts of Gujarat Legislature and Ordinances promulgated and Regulations made by the Governor.

The following Act of the Gujarat Legislature, having been assented to by the Governor on the 27th February, 2026 is hereby published for general information.

K. M. LALA, Secretary to the Government of Gujarat, Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Department.

GUJARAT ACT NO. 2 OF 2026. (First published, after having received the assent of the Governor, in the “Gujarat Government Gazette”, on the 27th February, 2026).

AN ACT further to amend the Saurashtra Gharkhed, Tenancy Settlement and Agricultural Lands Ordinance, 1949.

It is hereby enacted in the Seventy-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows: -

1. This Act may be called the Saurashtra Gharkhed, Tenancy Settlement and Agricultural Short title.

Lands (Gujarat Amendment) Act, 2026.

IV- Ex.-2 2-12-2 GUJARAT GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, EX. 27-02-2026 [ PART IV Substitution 2. In the Saurashtra Gharkhed, Tenancy Settlement and Agricultural Lands Ordinance, Sau. Ord. of Section 75 1949 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Act”), for section 75 the following section XLI of of Sau. Ord. shall be substituted, namely:- 1949.

XLI of 1949..

Disposal of “75. If the Collector suo motu or on the application of any person interested in land, such land has reason to believe that any person unauthorisedly occupying or transfer or wrongfully in possession of any land, - acquisition

(a) the transfer of which either by the act of parties or by the operation of of which is law is invalid under the provisions of this Ordinance, invalid.

(b) the management of which has been assumed under the said provisions, or

(c) to the use and occupation of which he is not entitled under the said provisions and the said provisions do not provide for the eviction of such persons, then such land shall be disposed of in the following manner, namely: -

(i) the Collector shall issue a notice to the transferor, the transferee or the person acquiring such land, as the case may be, to show cause as to why the transfer or acquisition should not be declared to be invalid and shall hold an inquiry and decide whether the transfer or acquisition of land is valid or not;

(ii) after holding such inquiry, if the Collector comes to a conclusion that the transfer or acquisition of land to be invalid, he shall make an order declaring the transfer or acquisition to be invalid, unless the parties to such transfer or acquisition give an undertaking in writing that within a period of three months from such date as the Collector may fix, they shall restore the land alongwith the rights and interest therein to the position in which it was immediately before the transfer or acquisition, and the land is so restored within that period;

(iii) on the declaration made by the Collector, such land shall be deemed to vest in the State Government, free from all encumbrances lawfully subsisting thereon on the date of such vesting and shall be disposed of as a land vested in the State Government.”.

Amendment 3. In the principal Act, in section 75A, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall of Section 75A be deemed to have substituted with effect from the 5th day of December, 2015, namely:- of Sau. Ord.

“(2) If the Collector comes to a decision that the transfer of such land is not valid then XLI of 1949. he shall pass an order thereby,-

(i) imposing the penalty of three times the amount of the prevailing Jantri of such land on the person or the institution in whose favour such land is not validly transferred; and

(ii) directing the person or institution in whose favour such land is not validly transferred to restore the land alongwith the rights and interest therein to the position in which it was immediately before such transfer within a period of one month of such order.”.

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