Section 17
Transfer of ownership, etc., of antiquities to be intimated to the registering officer.
The Antiquities and Art Treasures Act, 1972
About this Act
An Act to regulate the export trade in antiquities and art treasures, to provide for the prevention of smuggling of, and fraudulent dealings in, antiquities, to provide for the compulsory acquisition of antiquities and art treasures for preservation in public places and to provide for certain other matters connected therewith or incidental or ancillary thereto.
Whenever any person transfers the ownership, control or possession of any antiquity specified
in any notification issued under sub-section (1) of section 14 such person shall intimate, within such
period and in such form as may be prescribed, the fact of such transfer to the registering officer.