(1) This Act may be called the Gujarat Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1965.
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Gujarat.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(1) "ancient and historical monument" means any structure, erection or monument, or any tumulus or place of interment, or any cave, rock sculpture, inscription or monolith, which is of historical, archaeological or artistic interest and which has been in existence for not less than one hundred years, and includes—
(a) the remains of such monument,
(b) the site of such monument,
(c) such portion of land adjoining the site of such monument as may be required for fencing or covering in or otherwise preserving the monument, and
(d) the means of access to, and from, and convenient inspection of, such monument;
(2) "antiquity" includes —
(a) any coin, sculpture, manuscript, epigraph, or other work of art or craftsmanship,
(b) any article, object or thing detached from a building or cave,
(c) any article, object or thing illustrative of science, art, crafts, literature, religion, customs, morals or politics in by-gone ages,
(d) any article, object or thing of historical interest, and
(e) any article, object or thing which in the opinion of the State Government Short title, extent and commencement.
Definitions.
Gujarat Ancient Monument and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1965.
[1965: Guj. 25 because of its historical or archaeological importance is fit to be preserved and is declared by the State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, to be an antiquity for the purposes of this Act:
Provided that such antiquity has been in existence for not less than one hundred years.
(3) "Archaeological Officer" means such Officer as the State Government may appoint to be an Archaeological Officer for the purposes of this Act;
(4) "archaeological site and remains" means any area which contains or in reasonably believed to contain ruins or relics of historical or archaeological importance which have been in existence for not less than one hundred years and includes—
(a) such portion of land adjoining the area as may be required for fencing or covering in or otherwise preserving it, and
(b) the means of access to, and from, and convenient inspection of, the area;
(5) "Collector" includes any officer authorised by the State Government to perform all or any of the functions of a Collector by or under this Act;
(6) "Director" means the officer appointed for the time being by the State Government to be the Director of Archaeology and includes any officer authorised by the State Government to perform all or any of the functions of the Director by or under this Act;
(7) "Land Acquisition Act" means the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 as in force in the State of Gujarat;
(8) "maintain", with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, includes fencing, covering in, repairing, restoring and cleansing of a protected monument and the doing of any act which may be necessary for the purpose of preserving a protected monument or of securing convenient access thereto and therefrom;
(9) "owner" includes —
(a) a joint owner invested with powers of management on behalf of himself and other joint owners, and the successor in title of any such owner; and
(b) any manager or trustee exercising powers of management and the successor in office of any such manager or trustee;
(10) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(11) "protected area" means any archaeological site and remains which is declared to be a protected area by or under this Act;
(12) "protected monument" means an ancient and historical monument which is deemed or declared to be protected monument by or under this Act.
CHAPTER II PROTECTED MONUMENTS
3. All ancient and historical monuments in the State of Gujarat, which before the commencement of this Act have been declared by or under the Saurashtra Ancient Monuments Preservation Act, 1956 to be protected monuments, and have not been declared by or under any law made by Parliament to be of national importance, shall be deemed to be protected monuments for the purposes of this Act.
Certain ancient and historical monuments deemed to be protected monuments.
Sau. III of 1956.
Gujarat Ancient Monument and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1965.
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