PRESIDENTIAL ASSENT TO GUJARAT DISTURBED AREA ACT

PRESIDENTIAL ASSENT TO GUJARAT DISTURBED AREA ACT

13^TH OCTOBER 2020

The Hon’ble President has given his assent to a Bill passed by the Gujarat Assembly last year, which made some important amendments regarding the Transfer of Immovable Property and Tenants' rules from Eviction from those Premises under Disturbed Areas Act.

A district Collector under this act can notify a particular area of a city or town as a “disturbed area.” This notification has been passed based on past communal riots in the area.

According to this amendment, the transfer of immovable property on those notified areas can take place only after the assent of the Collector on an application made by the buyer and the seller of the property. In the application, the seller has to annex the affidavit stating that she/he has sold the property of her/his free volition and that seller has got a fair market price.