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