State Act

The Gujarat Land Revenue Code, 1879

1[66. 2[If any land referred to in section 65 or section 65A be used for any purpose other than the purpose for which such land is assessed or held without the permission of the Collector being first obtained, or before the expiry of three months referred to in section 65 or despite refusal of permission during the said period of three months, then, without prejudice to the occupant’s liability to pay the new assessment leviable under section 48 or the conversion tax leviable under section 67A,– (a) the occupant and any tenant or other person holding under or through him shall be liable to be summarily evicted by the Collector from the land so used and from the entrie survey number or sub-division of the survey number of which it may form a part; and (b) the occupant shall also be liable to pay for the period during which the said land has been so used, such fine as the Collector may, subject to the general orders of the State Government, direct.] Any tenant of any occupant or any other person holding under or through an occupant, who shall without the occupant’s consent use any such land for any such purpose, and thereby render the said occupant liable to the penalty aforesaid, shall be responsible to the said occupant in damages.]