Act Number: 52

Act Name: The Antiquities and Art Treasures Act, 1972

Year: 1972

Enactment Date: 1972-09-09

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Culture

Department:

Section 5: Antiquities to be sold only under a licence.
    1[As from the date of expiry of a period of six months from the commencement of this Act] no person shall, himself or by any other person on his behalf, carry on the business of selling or offering to sell any antiquity except under and in accordance with the terms and conditions of a licence granted under section 8.
     Explanation.--In this section and in sections 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 17 and 18 antiquity does not include ancient and historical records other than those declared by or under law made by Parliament, to be of national importance.
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 82 of 1976, s. 2, for "On and from the expiry of a period of two months of the commencement of this Act" (w.e.f. 4-6-1976).
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