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(1) No owner of any private forest shall, without the previous sanction of the District Collector, sell, mortgage, lease or otherwise alienate the whole or any portion of the private forest. Explanation.- Nothing in this sub-section shall be construed as preventing the owner from selling or otherwise dealing with the right to gather and remove forest produce other than trees, timber, reeds, charcoal, wild animals and skins, tusks, horns, bones and other parts or produce of such animals, in the usual or customary manner, for a period not exceeding two years. (2) Any alienation in contravention of sub-section (1) shall be null and void. (3) No owner of any private forest and no person claiming under him, whether by virtue of a contract, licence or any other transaction entered into before or after the commencement of this Act or any other person shall, without the previous permission of the District Collector, cut trees from, or cultivate, the private forest or do any act likely to denude the private forest or alter the nature of the forest or diminish its utility as a forest. (4) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1) or sub-section (3), the Government may exempt any private forest or class of private forests or class of trees therein from all or any of the provisions of this section.