Section 20-B: Power of Government to make rules regulating archaeo-logical excavation in protected area.
The Ancient Monuments Preservation Act, 1977 (1920 A.d. )Union territory Act of Jammu and Kashmir · Act 5 of 1920
(1) The Government may make rules,––
(a) prescribing the authorities by whom licence to excavate for archaeological purposes in a protected area may be granted ;
(b) regulating the condition on which such licences may be granted, the form of such licences and the taking of security from licensees ;
(c) prescribing the manner in which antiquities found by a licensee shall be divided between Government and the licensee ; and
(d) generally to carry out the purposes of section 20.
(2) The power to make rules given by this section is subject to the condition of rules being made after previous publication.
(3) Such rules may be general for all protected areas for the time being, or may be special for any particular protected area or areas.
(4) Such rules shall provide that any person committing a breach of any such rule or any condition of a licence issued under this section shall be punishable with fine which may extend to [fifty thousand rupees], and may further provide that where the breach has been by the agent or servant of a licensee, the licensee himself shall be punishable.
Power of Government to make rules regulating archaeo-logical excavation in protected area.
Jurisdiction
Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir
Status
In force as published by the source
How this provision has been amended
Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.
substituted, Act No. XXV of 2010. . Substituted for the words “twenty thousand rupees” by S.O. 1229(E) dated 31.3.2020. (For earlier amendment see Act No. XXV of 2010, s. 15).
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