(i) No person, including the owner or occupier of a ?rotected monument or area shall construct any building within the protected area or carry on any mirring, quarrying excavating blasting or any operation of a like nature in such area, or utilise such area or any part thereof in any other manner without the permission of the Goyernment:
Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall be deemed to prohibit the use of any such are{ or part thereof for purposes of cultivation, if such cultivation does not involved the digging of not more than one foot of soil from the surface.
(2) The Govemment may, by order, direct that any building constnrcted by any person within a protected area in contravention of the provisions of subsection (l) shall be removed within a specified period aod, if the person refuses or fails to comply with thc order, the Deputy Commis;ioner may cause the building to be demolished and the person concemed shall be liable to pay the cost of such removal.
19. If the Government is of opinion that any prot€cted area contains an ancient monumcnt or antiquities of archaeological interest and value, it may acquire such area under the provisions ofthe Land Acquisition Act, 1894, as if the acquisition were for a public purpose within the meaning of that Act.
Relinquishment of rights in monuments by Government.
Right of access to protected monuments.
Rights of access to certain protect€d monuments, restrictions on enjoyment of rights in protected area.
Power to aequire protected afea.
(b) by taking such action as it uray think necessary in this behalf.
4t GovernmcDt. the Government may. by notification in thc Omcial Gazette, dir€ct that any such antiquities or any class of such antiquities shall not be moved except with the written permission of the Government.
(2) Every application for permission under subsection (l) shall be in such form and contain such particulars as may be prescribed.
(3) Person aggrieved by an order rcfusing permission may appeal to the Government whose decision shall be f,nal.