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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 arrangement or mortgage of any land in respect of which any person has become an occupant under sections 4 and 8, shall be made, except with the previous permission in writing of the Government, which may grant such permission in such circumstances and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed: Provided that no such permission for sale shall be granted if the person in whose favour sale is made is other than an agriculturist in/from the State of Goa. (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 for agricultural purposes only.