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Compulsory acquisition of protected immovable antiquity
Act: Antiquities Act 1975
Section Provisions
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 15. Compulsory acquisition of protected Immovable antiquity.‑(1) If the Federal Government apprehends that a protected immovable antiquity is in danger of being destroyed, injured or allowed to fall into decay, it may, after consultation with the Advisory Committee, direct the Provincial Government to acquire such antiquity or any part thereof ; and the Provincial Government shall thereupon acquire such antiquity or part under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (I of 1894), as for a public purpose. (2) The power of compulsory acquisition under subsection (1) shall not be exercised in the case of‑ (a) any antiquity which or any part of which is periodically used for religious observances ; or (b) any antiquity which is the subject of a subsisting agreement under section 12 ; or (c) any other antiquity unless the owner or other person competent in this behalf has, when proposed to him by the Director, failed to enter into an agreement under section 12 within such period, not being less than six months, as the Director may fix.