Section 5: Monuments when kept open

The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Rules, 1959Central Rules · 1958

(1) The protected monument specified in the First Schedule shall remain open during the hours specified against them in that schedule; protected monuments which are not so specified and to which neither rule 3 nor rule 4 applied shall remain open from sunrise to sunset:

3[Provided that an archaeological officer, or any officer of the Archaeological Survey of India authorised by him in this behalf may, by notice to be exhibited in a conspicuous part of a protected monument, direct that a protected monument or part thereof shall.—

(i) Be kept open beyond the said period; or 1 Vide GSR 90, dated 30.01.1991 2 Vide GSR 800 (E), dated 17.10.2000 with effect from 28.10.2000 3 Vide S.O. 5002, dated 13.12.1969 3

(ii) Be closed temporarily for such period as may be specified by the notice].

(2) Nothing in this rule or in rule 6 shall apply to an archaeological officer, his agents, subordinates and workmen or to any other Government servant on duty at a protected monument.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Rules, 1959
Section	5
Marginal note	Monuments when kept open
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

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