Gujarat Agricultural Lands Ceiling Act, 1960
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force or in any agreement, usage or decree or order of a Court with effect, from the appointed day no person shall, subject to the provisions of 34[sub-sections (2), (3), (3A) and (3B)] be entitled to hold whether as owner or tenant or partly as owner and partly as tenant land in excess of the ceiling area. (2) Where an individual, who holds lands, is a member of a family, 35[not being a joint family which consists of the individual and his spouse (or more than one spouse) and their minor sons and minor unmarried daughters, irrespective of whether the family also includes any major son and ] land is also separately held by such individual's spouse or minor children, then the land held by the individual and the said members of the individual's family 36[excluding major sons, if any ] shall be grouped together for the purposes of this Act and the provisions of this Act shall apply to the total land so grouped together as if such land had been held by one person. (3) Where on the appointed day a person holds exempted land along with other land then, (3A) Where any person holds any land in any other part of the India outside the State, then, the area of land so held by him in such other part, not exceeding the maximum area of land which such person is entitled to hold in such other part of India under any law, if any, relating to ceiling on land, used or capable of being used for agricultural purposes, shall be excluded from the ceiling area under this section and the extent of land determined after so excluding such area shall in relation to such person, be deemed to be the ceiling area, to be held by him in this State : Provided that where any such person disposes of, at any time before the deter- mination of ceiling area under this Act, any land or part thereof so held by him in any other part of India outside the State, in accordance with the provisions of law in force in such part, the area equal to the land or part thereof so disposed of shall not be excluded while determining the ceiling area under this sub-section.