Act Info:Preamble1 - ANTIQUITIES AND ART TREASURES Act, 1972
Section1 - Short title, extent and commencement
Section2 - Definitions
Section3 - Regulation of export trade in antiquities and art treasures
Section4 - Application or Act 52 of 1962
Section5 - Antiquities to be sold only under a licence
Section6 - Appointment of licensing officers
Section7 - Application for licence
Section8 - Grant of licence
Section9 - Renewal of licence
Section10 - Maintenance of records, photographs and registers by licensees
Section11 - Revocation, suspension and amendment of licences
Section12 - Persons whose licences have been revoked may sell antiquities to other licensees
Section13 - Power of Central Government to carry on the business of selling antiquities to the exclusion of others
Section14 - Registration of antiquities
Section15 - Appointment of registering officers
Section16 - Application for registration and grant of certificate of registration
Section17 - Transfer of ownership, etc., of antiquities to be intimated to the registering officer
Section18 - Provisions of sections 14, 16 and 17 not to apply in certain cases
Section19 - Power of Central Government to compulsorily acquire antiquities and art treasures
Section20 - Payment of compensation for antiquities and art treasures compulsorily acquired under section 19
Section21 - Appeals against decisions of licensing officers and registering officers
Section22 - Appeals against awards of arbitrators
Section23 - Powers of entry, search, seizure, etc
Section24 - Power to determine whether or not an article, etc., is antiquity or art treasure
Section25 - Penalty
Section26 - Cognizance of offences
Section27 - Magistrates power to impose enhanced penalties
Section28 - Offences by companies
Section29 - Protection of action taken in good faith
Section30 - Application of other laws not barred
Section31 - Power to make rules
Section32 - Repeal
Section33 - Amendment of Act 24 of 1958