Gujarat Agricultural Lands Ceiling Act, 1960
If the Collector decides that the land or any portion thereof is eligible to exemption, he shall issue a certificate in the prescribed form to the applicant to the effect that the land specified therein is entitled to exemption from the provisions of this Act, and no land in respect of which such certificate of exemption has not been issued shall be eligible to exemption under sub-section (1). (1D) The decision of the Collector under sub-section (1B) shall, subject to the decision of the State Government in an appeal, if any, which may be filed by the applicant aggrieved by the decision of the Collector within a period of ninety days from the date of communication of the decision to the applicant or the decision of the State Government in such appeal or in exercise of its powers under section 52, shall be final and conclusive and shall not be called in question in any suit or proceeding in any court or before any authority. (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. If at any time it appears to the Collector that any exempted land or portion thereof has ceased to satisfy any of the requirements of the provisions of sub section (1) and has consequently ceased to be exempted land, the Collector may, after giving to the holder of such land an opportunity to be heard and satisfying himself that the land or any portion thereof has ceased to be exempted land, by order published in the prescribed manner, direct that with effect from such date as may be specified in the order such land or portion thereof shall cease to be exempted from the provisions of this Act and thereupon the certificate granted to the holder under sub-section (1C) shall stand revoked in respect of such land, or as the case may be, portion thereof. (3) The Devasthan lands which immediately before the date of the commencement of the Gujarat Devasthan Inams Abolition Act, 1969 were exempted under clause (d) of sub-section (1) shall with effect on and from the said date cease to be exempted lands. (4) No exempted land shall be transferred by way of sale, gift, exchange, mortgage, lease, assignment or otherwise, or partitioned, without the previous permission of the Collector : Provided that the Collector may grant such permission on such conditions as may be prescribed. (5) Any transfer or partition of exempted land in contravention of sub-section (4) shall be void. (6) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Bombay public trusts Act, 1950 or in the instrument of trust relating to any institution referred to in clause (ddd) of sub-section (1), for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of the said clause (ddd) it shall be lawful : (a) for the trustees of such institution to create and get registered a separate trust in respect of the lands utilised by such institution for maintenance of Panjrapole or Gaushala and for that purpose to make an application for the registration of such separate trust in accordance with the provisions of the said Act, to the Deputy or Assistant Charity Commissioner having jurisdiction under section 18 of the said Act, and (b) for the Deputy or Assistant Charity Commissioner having jurisdiction to deal with such application in accordance with the provisions of the said Act, as if it were an application for registration of a new trust.