Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Definitions -In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) ‘ancient monument’ 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 1[seventy five 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; but does not include any ancient or historical monument declared by or under law made by Parliament to be of national importance; (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 Government, by notification in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette, to be an antiquity for the purposes of this Act, which has been in existence for not less than 1[seventy five years];