Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Substituted for the words “Government for the preservation” by Act No. XXV of 2010, s.5. 322 ANCIENT MONUMENTS PRESERVATION ACT, 1977 (3) An agreement under this section may be executed by the 1[Director, Archaeology] on behalf of 2[the Government] but shall not be so executed until it has been approved by 2[the Government.] 3[(3-A) If any owner or other person competent to enter into an agreement under sub-section (2) for the maintenance of protected monument refuses or fails to enter into any such agreement within the specified time, the Government on the motion of Director, Archaeology, may make an order providing for all or any of the matters specified in sub-section (2) 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.] (4) The terms of an agreement under this section may be altered from time to time with the sanction of 2[the Government] and with the consent of the owner. (5) With the previous sanction of 2[the Government the 1[Director, Archaeology] may terminate an agreement under this section on giving six months’ notice in writing to the owner. (6) The owner may terminate an agreement under this section on giving six months’ notice to the 3[Director, Archaeology] 4[:] 4[Provided that where the agreement is terminated by the owner, he shall pay to the Government, the expenses, if any, incurred by the Government 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.] (7) An agreement under this section shall be binding on any person claiming to be owner of the monument to which it relates, through or under a party by whom or on whose behalf the agreement was executed. (8) Any rights acquired by Government in respect of expenses incurred in protecting or preserving a monument shall not be effected by the termination of an agreement under this section.