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THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS AND
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES AND REMAINS ACT, 1958.
CIENT MONUMENTS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES AND REMAINS
ACT, 1958
NO.24 OF 1958
[28th
August, 1958]
An Act to provide for the preservation of ancient and
historical monuments and archaeological site and remains of national
importance, for the regulation of archaeological excavations and for the
protection of sculptures, carvings and other like objects.
Comment: We avail this opportunity to direct
the Government of India to maintain all national monuments under the
respective Acts referred to above and to ensure that all of them are
properly maintained so that the cultural and historical heritage of India
and the beauty and grandeur of the monuments, sculptures secured through
breathless and passionate labour workmenship, craftsmanship and the skills
of the Indian architects, artists and masons is continued to be preserved.
Rajeev Mankotia v. Secretary to the President of India, AIR 1997 SUPREME
COURT 2766
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Ninth Year of the
Republic of India as follows:-
PRELIMINARY
1.Short title, extent and
commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Ancient Monuments and
Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958.
(2) It extends to the
whole of India, but sections 22, 24, 25 and 26 shall not apply to the
State of Jammu and Kashmir.
(3) It shall come into force on such
date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official
Gazette, appoint.
2.Definitions.- In this Act
unless the context otherwise requires-,
(a) "ancient monuments"
means any structure, erection or monument, or any tumulus or place of
interment, or any cave, rock-sculpture, inscription or monolith, which is
of historical, archaeological or artistic interest and which has been in
existence for not less than one hundred years, and includes-
(i)
the remains of an ancient monument.
(ii) the site of an ancient
monument,
(iii) such portion of land adjoining the site of an
ancient monument as may be required for fencing or covering in or
otherwise preserving such monument, and
(iv) the means of access
to, and convenient inspection of, an ancient monument;
(b)
"antiquity" includes-
(i) any coin, sculpture , manuscript,
epigraph, or other work of art or craftsmanship.
(ii) any article,
object or thing detached from a building or cave,
(iii) any
article, object or thing illustrative of science, art, crafts, literature,
religion, customs, morals or politics in bygone ages,
(iv) any
article, object or thing of historical interest, and
(v) any
article, object or thing declared by the Central Government, by
notification in the Official Gazette, to be an antiquity for the purposes
of this Act.
which has been in existence for not less than one
hundred years;
(c) "archaeological officer" means an officer of the
Department of Archaeology of the Government of India not lower in rank
than Assistant Superintendent of Archaeology;
(d) "archaeological
site and remains" means any area which contains or is reasonably believed
to contain ruins or relics of historical or archaeological importance
which have been in existence for not less than one hundred years, and
includes-
(i) such portion of land adjoining the area as may be
required for fencing or covering in or otherwise preserving it,
and
(ii) the means of access to, and convenient inspection of, the
area;
(e) "Director-General" means the Director-General of
Archaeology, and includes any officer authorised by the Central Government
to perform the duties of the Director-General;
(f) "maintain, with
its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, includes the fencing,
covering in, repairing, restoring and cleansing of a protected monument,
and the doing of any act which may be necessary for the porpoise of
preserving a protected monument or of securing convenient access
thereto;
(g) "owner" includes-
(i) a joint owner invested
with powers of management on behalf of himself and other joint owners and
the successor-in-title of any such owner; and
(ii) any manager or
trustee exercising powers of management and the successor-in-office of any
such manager or trustee;
(h) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules
made under this Act;
(i) "protected area" means any archaeological
site and remains which is declared to be of national importance by or
under this Act;
(j) "protected monument" means an ancient monument
which is declared to be of national importance by or under this
Act.
ANCIENT MONUMENTS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES AND REMAINS
OF
NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
3.Certain ancient monuments, etc.,
deemed to be of national importance.- All ancient and historical
monuments and all archaeological sites and remains which have been
declared by the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Archaeological Sites
and Remains (Declaration of National Importance) Act, 1951 (71 of 1951),
or by section 126 of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 (37 of 1956), to
be of national importance shall be deemed to be ancient and historical
monuments or archaeological sites and remains declared to be of national
importance for the purposes of this Act.
4.Power of Central Government to
declare ancient monuments, etc., to be of national importance.- (1)
Where the Central Government is of opinion that any ancient monument or
archaeological site and remains not included in section 3 is of national
importance, it may, by notification in the official Gazette, give two
months' notice of its intention to declare such ancient monument or
archaeological site and remains to be of national importance; and a copy
of every such notification shall be affixed in a conspicuous place near
the monument or site and remains, as the case may be.
(2) Any
person interested in any such ancient monument or archaeological site and
remains may, within two months after the issue of the notification, object
to the declaration of the monument, or the archaeological site and
remains, to be of national importance.
(3) On the expiry of the
said period of two months, the Central Government may after considering
the objections, if any, received by it, declare by notification in the
Official Gazette, the ancient monument or the archaeological site and
remains, as the case may be, to be of national importance.
(4) A
notification published under sub-section (3) shall, unless and until it is
withdrawn, be conclusive evidence of the fact that the ancient monument or
the archaeological site and remains to which it relates is of national
importance for the purposes of this Act.
PROTECTED
MONUMENTS
5.Acquisition of
rights in a protected monument.- (1) The Director-General may, with
the sanction of the Central Government, purchase, or take a lease of, or
accept a gift or bequest of, any protected monument.
(2) Where a
protected monument is without an owner, the Director-General may, by
notification in the Official Gazette, assume the guardianship of the
monument.
(3) The owner of any protected monument may, by written
instrument, constitute the Director-General the guardian of the monument,
and the Director-General the guardian of the monument, and the
Director-General may, with the sanction of the Central Government, accept
such guardianship.
(4) When the Director-General has accepted the
guardianship of a monument under sub-section (3), the owner shall, except
as expressly provided in this Act, have the same estate, right, title and
interest in and to the monument as if the Director-General had not been
constituted a guardian thereof.
(5) When the Director-General has
accepted the guardianship of a monument under sub-section (3), the
provisions of this Act relating to agreements executed under section 6
shall apply to the written to agreements executed under the said
sub-section.
(6) Nothing in this section shall affect the use of
any protected monument for customary religious observations.
6.Preservation of protected
monument by agreement.- (1) the Collector, when so directed by the
Central Government, shall propose to the owner of a protected monument to
enter into an agreement with the Central Government within a specified
period for the maintenance of the monument.
(2) An agreement under
this section may provide for all or any of the following matters,
namely:-
(a) the maintenance of the monument:
(b) the
custody of the monument and the duties of any person who may be employed
to watch it;
(c) the restriction of the owner's right-
(i)
to use the monument for any purpose,
(ii) to charge any fee for
entry into, or inspection of, the monument,
(iii) to destroy,
remove, alter or deface the monument, or
(iv) to build on or near
the site of the monument;
(d) the facilitates of access to be
permitted to the public or any section thereof or to archaeological
officers or to persons deputed by the owner or any archaeological officer
or the Collector to inspect or maintain the monument;
(e) the
notice to be given to the Central Government in case the land on which the
monument is situated or any adjoining land is offered for sale by the
owner, and the right to be reserved to the Central Government to purchase
such land, or any specified portion of such land, at its market
value;
(f) the payment of any expenses incurred by the owner or by
the Central Government in connection with the maintenance of the
monument;
(g) the proprietary or other rights which are to vest in
the Central Government in respect of the monument when any expenses are
incurred by the Central Government in connection with the maintenance of
the monument;
(h) the appointment of an authority to decide any
dispute arising out of the agreement; and
(i) any matter connected
with the maintenance of the monument which is a proper subject of
agreement between the owner and the Central Government.
(3) The
Central Government or the owner may, at any time after the expiration of
three years from the date of execution of an agreement under this section,
terminate it on giving six months' notice in writing to the other
party:
Provided that where the agreement is terminated by the
owner, he shall pay to the Central Government the expenses, if any,
incurred by it on the maintenance of the monument during the five years
immediately preceding the termination of the agreement or, if the
agreement has been in force for a shorter period, during the period the
agreement was in force.
(4) An agreement under this section shall
be binding on any person claiming to be the owner of the monument to which
it relates, from, through or under a party by whom or on whose behalf the
agreement was executed.
7.Owners under disability or not
in possession.- (1) If the owner of a protected monument is unable, by
reason of infancy or other disability, to act for himself, the person
legally competent to act on his behalf may exercise the powers conferred
upon an owner by section 6.
(2) In the case of village property,
the headman other village-officer exercising powers of management over
such property may exercise the powers conferred upon an owner by section
6.
(3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to empower any
person not being of the same religion as the person on whose behalf he is
acting to make or execute an agreement relating to a protected monument
which or any part of which is periodically used for the religious worship
or observances of that religion.
8.Application of endowment to repair
a protected monument.- (1) If any owner or other person competent to
enter into an agreement under section 6 for the maintenance of a protected
monument refuses or fails to enter into such an agreement, and if any
endowment has been created for the purpose of keeping such monument in
repair or for that purpose among other, the Central Government may
institute a suit in the court of the district judge, or, if the estimated
cost of repairing the monument does not exceed one thousand 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 a
decree of a civil court.
9.Failure or refusal to enter into an
agreement.- (1) If any owner or other person competent to enter into
an agreement under section 6 for the maintenance of a protected monument
refuses or fails to enter into such an agreement, the Central Government
may make an order providing for all or any of the matters specified in
sub-section (2) of section 6 and such order shall be binding on the owner
or such other person and on every person claiming title to the monument
from, through or under, the owner or such other person.
(2) Where
an order made under sub-section (1) provides that the monument shall be
maintained by the owner or other person competent to enter into an
agreement all reasonable expenses for the maintenance of the monument
shall be payable by the Central Government.
(3) No order under
sub-section (1) shall be made unless the owner or other person has been
given an opportunity of making a representation in writing against the
proposed order.
10.Power to
make order prohibiting contravention of agreement under section 6.-
(1) If the Director-General apprehends that the owner or occupier of a
protected monument intends to destroy, remove, alter, deface, imperil or
misuse the monument or to build on or near the site thereof in
contravention of the terms of an agreement under section 6, the
Director-General may, after giving the owner or occupier an opportunity of
making a representation in writing, make an order prohibiting any such
contravention of the agreement:
Provided that no such opportunity
may be given in any case where the Director-General, for reasons to be
recorded, is satisfied that it is not expedient or practicable to do
so.
(2) Any person aggrieved by an order under this section may
appeal to the Central Government within such time and in such manner as
may be prescribed and the decision of the Central Government shall be
final.
11.Enforcement of
agreements.- (1) If an owner or other person who is bound by an
agreement for the maintenance of a monument under section 6 refuses or
fails within such reasonable time as the Director-General may fix, to do
any act which in the opinion of the Director-General is necessary for the
maintenance of the monument, the Director-General may authorise any person
to do any such act, and the owner or other person shall be liable to pay
the expenses of doing any such act or such portion of the expenses as the
owner may be liable to pay under the agreement.
(2) If any dispute
arises regarding the amount of expenses payable by the owner or other
person under sub-section (1), it shall be referred to the Central
Government whose decision shall be final.
12.Purchasers at certain sales and
persons claiming through owner bound by instrument executed by owner.-
Every person who purchases, at a sale for arrears of land revenue or any
other public demand, any land on which is situated a monument in respect
of which any instrument has been executed by the owner for the time being
under section 5 or section 6, and every person claiming any title to a
monument from, through or under, an owner who executed any such
instrument, shall be bound by such instrument.
13.Acquisition of protected
monuments.- If the Central Government apprehends that a protected
monument is in anger of being destroyed, insured, misused, or allowed to
fall into decay, it may acquire the protected monument under the
provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (1 of 1894), as if the
maintenance of the protected monument were a public purpose within the
meaning of that Act.
14.Maintenance of certain protected
monuments.- (1) The Central Government shall maintain every monument
which has been acquired under section 13 or in respect of which any of the
rights mentioned in section 5 have been acquired.
(2) When the
Director-General has assumed the guardianship of a monument under section
5, he shall, for the purpose, of maintaining such monument, have access to
the monument at all reasonable times, by himself and by his agents,
subordinates and workmen, for the purpose of inspecting the monument and
for the purpose of bringing such materials and doing such acts as he may
consider necessary or desirable for the maintenance thereof.
15.Voluntary contributions.- The
Director-General may receive voluntary contributions towards the cost of
maintaining a protected monument and may give orders as to the management
and application of any funds so received by him;
Provided that no
contribution received under this section shall be applied to any purpose
other than the purpose for which it was contributed.
16.Protection of place of worship
from misuse, pollution or desecration.- (1) A protected monument
maintain by the Central Government under this Act which is a place of
worship or shrine shall not be used for any purpose inconsistent with its
character.
(2) Where the Central Government has acquired a
protected monument under section 13, or where the Director-General has
purchased, or taken a lease or accepted a gift or bequest or assumed
guardianship of, a protected monument under section 5, and such monument
or any part the derives used for religious worship or observances by any
community, the Collector hall make due provisions for the protection of
such monument or part thereof, from pollution or desecration-
(a)
by prohibiting the entry therein, except in accordance with the conditions
prescribed with the concurrence of the persons, if any, in religious
charge of the said monument or part thereof, of any person not entitled so
to enter by the religious usages of the community by which the monument or
part thereof is used, or
(b) by taking such other action as he may
think necessary in this behalf.
17.Relinquishment of Government
rights in a monument.- With the sanction of the Central Government,
the Director-General may,-
(a) where rights have been acquired by
the Director-General in respect of any monument under this Act by virtue
of any sale, lease, gift or will, relinquish, by notification in the
Official Gazette, the rights so acquired to the person who would for the
time being be the owner of the monument if such rights had not been
acquired; or
(b) relinquish any guardianship of a monument which he
has assumed under this Act.
18.Right of access to protected
monuments.- Subject to any rules made under this Act, the public shall
have a right of access to any protected monument.
PROTECTED
AREAS
19.Restrictions on
enjoyment of property rights in protected areas.- (1) No person,
including the owner or occupier of a protected area, shall construct any
building within the protected area or carry on any mining quarrying,
excavating, blasting or any operation of a like nature in such area, or
utilise such area or any part thereof in any other manner without the
permission of the Central Government:
Provided that nothing in this
sub-section shall be deemed to prohibit the use of any such area or part
thereof for purposes of cultivation if such cultivation does not involve
the digging of not more than one foot of soil from the surface.
(2)
The Central Government may, by order, direct that any building constructed
by any person within a protected area in contravention of the provisions
of sub-section (1) shall be removed within a specified period and, if the
person refuses or fails to comply with the order, the Collector may cause
the building to be removed and the person shall be liable to pay the cost
of such removal.
20.Power
to acquire protected area.- If the Central Government is of opinion
that any protected area contains an ancient monument or antiquities of
national interest and value, it may acquire such area under the provisions
of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (1 of 1894), as if the acquisition were
for a public purpose within the meaning of that Act.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL
EXCAVATIONS
21.Excavations
in protected areas.- An archaeological officer or an officer
authorised by him in this behalf or any person holding a licence granted
in this behalf under this Act (hereinafter referred to as the licensee)
may, after giving notice in writing to the Collector and the owner, enter
upon and make excavations in any protected area.
22.Excavations in areas other than
protected areas.- Where an archaeological officer has reason to
believe that any area not being a protected area contains ruins or relies
of historical or archaeological importance, he or an officer authorised by
him in this behalf may, after giving notice in writing to the Collector
and the owner, enter upon and make excavations in the area.
23.Compulsory purchase of
antiquities, etc., discovered during excavation operations.- (1)
Where, as a result of any excavations made in any area under section 21 or
section 22, any antiquities are discovered, the archaeological officer or
the licensee, as the case may be, shall,-
(a) as soon as
practicable, examine such antiquities and submit a report to the Central
Government in such manner and containing such particulars as may be
prescribed;
(b) at the conclusion of the excavation operations,
give notice in writing to the owner of the land from which such
antiquities have been discovered, of the nature of such
antiquities.
(2) Until an orders for the compulsory purchase of any
such antiquities is made under sub-section (3), the archaeological officer
or the licensee, as the case may be, shall keep them in such safe custody
as he may deem fit.
(3) On receipt of a report under sub-section
(1), the Central Government may make an order for the compulsory purchase
of any such antiquities at their market value.
(4) When an order
for the compulsory purchase of any antiquities is made under sub-section
(3), such antiquities shall rest in the Central Government with effect
from the date of the order.
24.Excavations, etc., for
archaeological purposes.- No State Government shall undertake or
authorise any person to undertake any excavation or other like operation
for archaeological purposes in any area which is not a protected area
except with the previous approval of the Central Government and in
accordance with such rules or directions, if any, as the Central
Government may make or give in this behalf.
PROTECTION OF
ANTIQUITIES
25.Power of
Central Government to control moving of antiquities.- (1) If the
Central Government considers that any antiquities or class of antiquities
ought not to be moved from the place where they are without the sanction
of the Central Government, the Central Government may, by notification in
the Official Gazette, direct that any such antiquity or any class of such
antiquities shall not be moved except with the written permission of the
Director-General.
(2) Every application for permission under
sub-section (1) Shall be in such form and contain such particulars as may
be prescribed.
(3) Any person aggrieved by an order refusing
permission may appeal t the Central Government whose decision shall be
final.
26.Purchase of
antiquities by Central Government.- (1) If the Central Government
apprehends that any antiquity mentioned in a notification issued under
sub-section (1) of section 25 is in danger of being destroyed, removed,
injured, misused or allowed to fall into decay or is of opinion that, by
reason of its historical or archaeological importance, it is desirable to
preserve such antiquity in a public place, the Central Government may make
an order for the compulsory purchase of such antiquity at its market value
and the Collector shall thereupon give notice to the owner of the
antiquity to be purchased.
(2) Where a notice of compulsory
purchase is issued under sub-section (1) in respect of any antiquity, such
antiquity shall vest in the Central Government with effect from the date
of the notice.
(3) The power of compulsory purchase given by this
section shall not extend to any image or symbol actually used for bona
fide religious observations.
PRINCIPLES OF COMPENSATION
27.Compensation for loss or
damage.- Any owner or occupier of land who has sustained any loss or
damage or any diminution of profits from the land by reason of any entry
on, or excavations in, such land or the exercise of any other power
conferred by this Act shall be paid compensation by the Central Government
for such loss, damage or diminution of profits.
28.Assessment of market value or
compensation.- (1) The market value of any property which the Central
Government is empowered to purchase at such value under this Act or the
compensation to be packed by the Central Government in respect of anything
done under this Act shall, where any dispute arises in respect of such
market value or compensation, be ascertained in the manner provided in
sections, 3, 5, 8 to 34, 45 to 47, 51 and 52 of the Land Acquisition Act,
1894 (1 of 1894), so far as they can be made applicable:
Provided
that, when making an enquiry under the said Land Acquisition Act, the
Collector shall be assisted by two assessors, one of whom shall be a
competent person nominated by the Central Government and one a person
nominate by the owner, or, in case the owner fails to nominate an assessor
within such reasonable time as may be fixed by the Collector in this
behalf, by the Collector.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in
sub-section (1) or in the Land Acquisition Act.1894 (1 of 1894), in
determining the market value of any antiquity in respect of which an order
for compulsory purchase is made under sub-section (3) of section 23 or
under quite by reason of its being of historical or archaeological
importance shall not be taken into consideration.
29.Delegation of powers.- The
Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette , direct
that any powers conferred on it by or under this Act shall, subject to
such conditions as may be specified in the direction, be exercisable also
by-
(a) such officer or authority subordinate to the Central
Government or
(b) such State Government or such officer or
authority subordinate to the State Government,
as may be specified in
the direction.
30.Penalties.- (1)
Whoever-
(i) destroys, remove, injures, alters, defaces, imperil or
misuses a protected monument, or
(ii) being the owner or occupier
of a protected monument, contravenes an order made under sub-section (1)
of section 9 or under sub-section (1) of section 10, or
(iii)
removes from a protected monument any sculpture carving, image,
bas-relief, inscription, or other like object, or
(iv) does any act
in contravention of sub-section (1) of section 19.
shall be
punishable with imprisonment which may extend to three shall be punishable
with imprisonment which may extend to three months, or with fine which may
extend to five thousand rupees, or with both.
(2) Any person who
moves any antiquity in contravention of a notification issued under
sub-section (1) of section 25 shall be punishable with fine which may
extend to five thousand rupees; and the court convicting a person of any
such contravention may be order direct such person to restore the
antiquity to the place from which it was moved.
31.Jurisdiction to try offences.-
No court inferior to that of a presidency magistrate or a magistrate of
the first class shall try any offence under this Act.
32.Certain offences to be
cognizable.- Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of
Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898), an offence under clause (i) or
clause (iii) of sub-section (1) of section 30, shall be deemed to be a
cognizable offence within the meaning of that Code.
33.Special provision regarding
fine.- Notwithstanding anything contained in section 32 of the Code of
Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898), it shall be lawful for any
magistrate, of the first class specially empowered by the State Government
in this behalf and for any presidency magistrate to pass a sentence of
fine exceeding two thousand rupees on any person convicted of an offence
which under this Act is punishable with fine exceeding two thousand
rupees.
34.Recovery of
amounts due to the Government.- Any amount due to the Government from
any person under this Act may, on a certificate issued by the
Director-General or an archaeological officer authorised by him in this
behalf be recovered in the same manner as an arrear of land
revenue.
35.Ancient
monuments, etc., which have ceased to be of national importance.- If
the Central Government is of opinion that any ancient and historical
monument or archaeological site and remains declared to be of national
importance by or under this Act has ceased to be of national importance,
it may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare that the ancient
and historical monuments or archaeological site and remains, as the case
may be, has ceased to be of national importance for the purposes of this
Act.
36.Power to correct
mistakes, etc.- Any clerical mistake, patent error or error arising
form accidental slip or omission in the description of any ancient
monument or archaeological site and remains declared to be of national
importance by or under this Act may, at any time, be corrected by the
Central Government by notification in the Official Gazette.
37.Protection of action taken under
the Act.- No suit for compensation and no criminal proceeding shall
lie against any public servant in respect of any act done or in good faith
intended to be done in the exercise of any power conferred by this
Act.
38.Power to make
rules.- (1) The Central Government may, by notification in the
Official Gazette and subject to the condition of previous publication,
make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
(2) In
particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing
power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters,
namely:-
(a) the prohibition or regulation by licensing or
otherwise of mining, quarrying, excavating blasting or any operation of a
like nature near a protected monument or the construction of buildings on
land adjoining such monument and the removal of unauthorised
buildings;
(b) the grant of licences and permissions to make
excavations for archaeological purposes in protected areas, the
authorities by whom, and the retractions and conditions subject to which,
such licences may be granted, the taking of securities from licensees and
the fees that may be charged for such licensees;
(c) the right of
access of the public to a protected monument and the fee, if any, to be
charged therefor;
(d) the form and contends of the report of an
archaeological officer or a licensee under clause (a) of sub-section (1)
of section 23;
(e) the form in which application s for permission
under section 19 or section 25 may be made and the particulars which they
should contain
(f) the form and manner of preferring appeals under
this Act and the time within which they may be preferred;
(g) the
manner of service of any order or notice under this Act;
(h) the
manner in which excavations and other like operations for archaeological
purposes may be carried on;
(i) any other matter which is to be or
may be prescribed.
(3) Any rule made under this section may provide
that a breach thereof shall be punishable,-
(i) in the case of a
rule made with reference to clause (a) of sub-section (2), with
imprisonment which may extend to three months, or with fine which may
extend to five thousand rupees, or with both;
(ii) in the case of a
rule made with reference to clause (b) of sub-section (2), with fine which
may extend to five thousand rupees;
(iii) in the case of a rule
made with reference to clause (c) of sub-section (2), with fine which may
extend to five hundred rupees.
(4) All rules made under this
section shall be laid for not less than thirty days before each House of
Parliament as soon as possible after they are made, and shall be subject
to such modifications as Parliament may make during the session in which
they are so laid or the session immediately following.
39.Repeals and savings.- (1) The
Ancient and Historical Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains
(Declaration of National Importance) Act, 1951 (71 of 1951), and section
126 of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 (37 of 1956), are hereby,
repealed.
(2) The Ancient Monuments Preservation Act, 1904 (7 of
1904), shall cease to have effect in relation to ancient and historical
monuments and archaeological sites and remains declared by or under this
Act to be of national importance, except as respects things done or
omitted to be done before the commencement of this Act.