Section 6
Appointment of licensing officers.
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.
The Central Government may, by notified order,--
(a) appoint such persons, being gazetted officers of Government, as it thinks fit, to be licensing officers for the purposes of this Act;
(b) define the limits of the area within which a licensing officer shall exercise the powers conferred on licensing officers by or under this Act.
(a) appoint such persons, being gazetted officers of Government, as it thinks fit, to be licensing officers for the purposes of this Act;
(b) define the limits of the area within which a licensing officer shall exercise the powers conferred on licensing officers by or under this Act.