Transfer of land barred

(1) No sale (including sales in execution of a decree of a Civil Court or for recovery of arrears of land revenue), gift, exchange or lease or assignment or mortgage of any land in respect of which any person has become an occupant under section 8, shall be made, except with the previous permission in writing of the Civil Administrator, who may grant such permission in such circumstances and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), it shall be lawful for an occupant to mortgage or create a charge on any land referred to in sub-section (1) in favour of the Government or a Co-operative Society or the State Bank of India or any other Scheduled Bank in consideration of a loan advanced to him by the Government or the Co-operative Society or the State Bank of India or the Scheduled Bank, as the case may be, for improvement of the land.