आधिकारिक दस्तावेज़ / Official document
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a1972-52.pdf
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- Jurisdiction
- Central
- Enactment date
- 1972-09-09
- Sections available
- 33
Commencement information from the source
05-04-1976
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1Short title, extent and commencement.→2Definitions.→3Regulation of export trade in antiquities and art treasures.→4Application of Act 52 of 1962.→5Antiquities to be sold only under a licence.→6Appointment of licensing officers.→7Application for licence.→8Grant of licence.→9Renewal of licence.→10Maintenance of records, photographs and registers by licensees.→11Revocation, suspension and amendment of licences.→12Persons whose licences have been revoked may sell antiquities to other licensees.→13Power of Central Government to carry on the business of selling antiquities to the exclusion of others.→14Registration of antiquities.→15Appointment of registering officers.→16Application for registration and grant of certificate of registration.→17Transfer of ownership, etc., of antiquities to be intimated to the registering officer.→18Provisions of sections 14, 16 and 17 not to apply in certain cases.→19Power of Central Government to compulsorily acquire antiquities and art treasures.→20Payment of compensation for antiquities and art treasures compulsorily acquired under section 19.→21Appeals against decisions of licensing officers and registering officers.→22Appeals against awards of arbitrators.→23Powers of entry, search, seizure, etc.→24Power to determine whether or not an article, etc., is antiquity or art treasure.→25Penalty.→26Cognizance of offences.→27Magistrate’s power to impose enhanced penalties.→28Offences by companies.→29Protection of action taken in good faith.→30Application of other laws not barred.→31Power to make rules.→32Repeal.→33Amendment of Act 24 of 1958.→
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