The ODISHA ANCIENT MONUMENTS PRESERVATION ACT, 1956
odisha · 1956
- S. 1Short title, extent and commencement
- S. 2Definitions
- S. 3Protected monuments
- S. 4Acquisition of right in or guardianship of an ancient monument
- S. 5Preservation of monument by agreement
- S. 6Owner under disability or not in possession
- S. 7Enforcement of agreement
- S. 8Purchasers at certain sales and persons claiming through owner bound by instrument executed by owner
- S. 9Application of endowment to repair of an ancient monument
- S. 10Compulsory purchase of ancient monument
- S. 11Maintenance of certain protected monument
- S. 12Voluntary contributions
- S. 13Protection of place of worship from misuse, pollution or 7 desecration
- S. 14Relinquishment of Government rights in a monument
- S. 15Right or access to certain protected monuments
- S. 16Penalties
- S. 17Power of State Government to control moving of sculptures
- S. 18Purchase of sculptures, carvings or like objects by the State Government
- S. 19Power of State Government to notify areas as protected
- S. 20Power to enter upon and make excavations in a protected area
- S. 21Power of State Government to make rules regulating archaeological excavation in protected areas
- S. 22Power to acquire protected area
- S. 23Assessment of market value or compensation
- S. 24Jurisdiction
- S. 25Power to make rules
- S. 26Protection to public servants acting under the Act