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ACT VII OF 1976 ANTIQUITIES ACT, 1975 ACT VII OF 1976 ANTIQUITIES ACT, 1975 An Act to repeal and re‑enact the law relating to the preservation and protection of antiquities 2. Definitions.‑In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, (a) "Advisory Committee" means the Advisory Committee constituted under section 3 ; (b) "ancient" means belonging or relating to any period prior to May, 1857 ; (c) "antiquity" means (i) any ancient product of human activity, movable or immovable, illustrative of art, architecture, craft, custom, literature, morals, politics, religion, warfare or science or of any aspect of civilization or culture, (ii) any ancient object or site of historical, ethnographical, anthropolo gical, military or scientific interest, (iii) any national monument, and (iv) any other object or class of such objects declared by the Federal Government, by notification in the official Gazette, to be an antiquity for the purposes of this Act ; (d) "dealer" means a person engaged in the business of buying and selling antiquities ; and "deal in antiquities" means to carry on such business ; (e) "Director" means the Director of Archaeology, Government of Pakistan, and includes an officer authorised by him to exercise or perform all or any of the powers or functions of the Director under this Act ; (f ) "export" means taking out of Pakistan by land, sea or air ; (g) "immovable antiquity" means an antiquity of any of the following 'descriptions, namely : (i) any archaeological deposit on land or under water, (ii) any archaeological mound, tumulus, burial place or place of internment, or any ancient garden, structure, building, erection or other work of historical, archaeological, military or scientific interest. (iii) any rock, cave or other natural object of historical, archaeological, artistic or scientific interest or containing sculpture, engraving, inscription or painting of such interest, and includes --- (1) any gate, door, window, panelling, dado, ceiling, inscription, wall‑ 'I o painting, wood work, metal work or sculpture or any other thing which is attached or fastened to an immovable antiquity; (2) the remains of an immovable antiquity; (3) the site of an immovable antiquity;; (4) such portion of land or water adjoining the site of an immovable antiquity as are reasonably required for fencing or covering or otherwise preserving such antiquity; (5) the reasonable means of access to, and convenient inspection of an immovable antiquity; and (6) any urban site, street, group of buildings or public square of special value which the Federal Government, being of the opinion that its preservation is a matter of public interest by reason of its arrangement, architecture or materials of construction, by notification in the official Gazette, declares to be an immovable antiquity for the purposes of this Act; (h) "national monument" means any building, structure, erection, place of internment, garden, portion of land or any other place or thing of national importance as may be determined and notified as such from time to time by the Federal Government in consultation, with the Advisory Committee; (i) "owner" includes‑ `. (i) any person legally competent to act on behalf of the owner, when by reason of infancy or other disability the owner is unable to act; (ii) a joint owner invested with powers of management on behalf of himself and other joint owners and the successor in interest of such owner; and O any manager or trustee exercising the powers of management and the successor in office of such manager or trustee; (j) "protected antiquity" means an antiquity which is declared under section 10 to be a protected antiquity and (k) "rules" means rules made under this Act.