Section 9: Application of endowment to repair of an ancient monument.

The Ancient Monuments Preservation Act, 1977 (1920 A.d. )Union territory Act of Jammu and Kashmir · Act 5 of 1920

(1) If any owner or other person competent to enter into an agreement under section 5 for the preservation of a protected monument, refuses or fails to enter into him by the [Director, Archaeology], and if any endowment has been created for the purpose of keeping such monument in repair or for that purpose among others, the [Director, Archaeology] may institute a suit in the Court of the District Judge, or, if the estimated cost of repairing the monument does not exceed [one lakh rupees], may make an application to the District Judge for the proper application of such endowment or part thereof.

(2) On the hearing of an application under sub-section (1), the District Judge may summon and examine the owner and any person whose evidence appears to him necessary, and may pass an order for the proper application of the endowment or of any part thereof, and any such order may be executed as if it were the decree of a Civil Court.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Ancient Monuments Preservation Act, 1977 (1920 A.d. )
Section	9
Marginal note	Application of endowment to repair of an ancient monument.
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 “Superintendent of Archaeology” by Act No. XXV of 2010, s.2.
substituted. . Substituted for “one thousand rupees” ibid, s. 6.

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