Gujarat Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948
(1) Subject to the provision of this Act,- (a) but notwithstanding any law, custom, usage, agreement or the decree or order of a court, the rent payable shall be paid annually, and in cash; (b) such rent shall not exceed five times the assessment payable in respect of the land or twenty rupees per acre whichever is less, and shall not be less than twice such assessment: Provided that where the amount equal to twice the assessment exceeds the sum of twenty rupees per acre, the rent shall by twice the assessment. (2) For the purpose of this section "assessment"means- (i) in areas in which a settlement has been made under Chapter VIIIA of the Bombay Land Revenue Code, 1879, or in which the assessment has been fixed under section 52 of the said Code the assessment so settled or fixed; (ii) in areas to which rule 19N of the Land Revenue Rules, 1921, applies such assessment as may be leviable under that rule; (iii) in areas to which the Bombay Merged Territories and Areas (Jagirs Abolition) Act, 1953 applies the assessment fixed under section 7 of that Act; (iv) in areas in which the assessment is payable in crop share or produce, such assessment as may be fixed by the State Government in accordance with the principles laid down in rule 19-O of the Land Revenue Rules,1921.