Gujarat Land Revenue Code, 1879
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 73, an occupancy of a person belonging to any of the Schedule Tribes (hereafter in this section and in section 73AB referred to as "the tribal") shall not be transferred to any person without the previous sanction of the Collector. (2) The previous sanction of the Collector under sub-section (1) may be given in such circumstances and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed. (3) (a) Where tribal transfers the possession of his occupancy to another tribal in contravention of sub-section (1), the tribal transferor or his successor in interest may, within two years of such transfer, apply to the collector that the possession of such occupancy may be restored to him and there upon the Collector shall, after issuing a notice to the transferee or his successor in interest, as the case may be, in the prescribed form to show cause why he should not be disentitled to retain possession of the occupancy and after holding such inquiry as he deems fit, declare that the transferee or his successor in interest shall not be entitled to retain possession of the occupancy and that the occupancy shall be restored to the tribal transferor or his successor in interest, as the case may be, on the same terms and conditions on which the transferor held it immediately before the transfer and subject to his acceptance of the liability for payment of arrears of land revenue in respect of such occupancy in accordance with the rules made by the State Government and that the transferee or his successor in interest as the case may be, shall be deemed to be unauthorisedly occupying the occupancy : Provided that such declaration shall stand revoked if the tribal transferor, or, as the case may be, his successor in interest fails or refuses in writing to accept the restoration of the possession of such occupancy within the prescribed period. (b) Where— (i) a tribal in contravention of sub-section (1) of section 73A or of any other law for the time being in force has transferred his occupancy to another tribal at any time during the period commencing on the 4th April, 1961 and ending on the day immediately before the date of commencement of the Bombay Land Revenue (Gujarat Second Amendment) Act, 1980, and (ii) the tribal transferee or his successor in interest has not been evicted from such occupancy under section 79A, the transfer of occupancy shall be valid, as if it were made with the previous sanction of the Collector under section 73A.