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In this Act, unless the subject or context otherwise requires,- (i) "ancient or historical monument" means any archaeological building, structure, erection or monument or any tumulus, tomb or place of interment or any cave, rocksculpture, rock-painting or sculpture of or on stone, metal, terracotta or other immovable object or any inscription or monolith, which is of historical, archaeological or artistic importance, interest or value, and includes – (a) any remains thereof, (b) the site thereof, (c) the portion of land adjoining such site which may be necessary or required for the preservation, protection, upkeep and maintenance of the same, and (d) the means of access thereto and of convenient inspection and repairs thereof; but does not include an ancient monument as defined in the Central Act, to which the provisions of that Act apply for the time being; (ii) "antiquity" means – (a) any coin, sculpture, epigraph, manuscript, record, document, picture, painting, printed matter or other work of art or craftsmanship, (b) any article, object or thing of historical, archaeological or artistic importance, interest or value, detached from a protected monument or collected from or discovered in a protected area; (c) any article, object or thing illustrative of science, art, crafts, literature, religion, customs, morals or politics in bygone ages, and (d) any other article, object or thing of historical, archaeological or artistic importance, interest or value, and includes any article, object or thing which the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare, by reason of its historical or archaeological association, to be an antiquity for the purposes of this Act but does not include an antiquity as defined in the Central Act, to which the provisions of that Act apply for the time being; (iii)"archaeological officer" means an officer, of the Department of Archaeology of the Rajasthan Money Lenders Act, 1963 93 State Government not below such rank as the State Government may from time to time prescribe; (iv)"archaeological site" means any mound indicating ancient habitation or any area which contains or is reasonably believed to contain ruins or relics of historical or archaeological importance, interest or value and includes – (a) any remains thereof, (b) the site thereof, (c) the portion of land adjoining such site which may be necessary or required for the preservation, protection, upkeep and maintenance thereof, and (d) the means of access thereto and of convenient inspection, repairs and excavation thereof, but does not include an archaeological site and remains as defined in the Central Act, to which the provisions of that Act apply for the time being; (v)"Central Act" means the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958 (Central Act 24 of 1958) as amended from time to time ; (vi)"Director" means the Director of Archaeology and Museums of the State and includes any officer appointed by the State Government to perform the duties of the Director under this Act ; (vii) "maintain", with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, includes the fencing, covering in, repairing, restoring and cleaning of an ancient or historical monument, an archaeological site or an antiquity or the doing of any act which may be necessary for the preservation, protection, upkeep or regulation of such monument, site or antiquity, or for securing convenient access thereto; (viii)"owner" used with reference to an ancient or historical monument, archaeological site or antiquity includes – (a) a joint owner invested with powers of management of or over such monument, site or antiquity on behalf of himself and other joint owners and the successor-in-title of any such owner, and (b) any manager or trustee exercising powers of such management and the successor-in-office of any such manager or trustee; (ix) "Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (x) ―Protected‖ when used with reference to an ancient or historical monument or an archaeological site, means such monument or site which may be declared by the State Government under section 3 to be a protected monument or a protected area; and (xi) "Protected antiquity" means an antiquity declared by the State Government under section 3 to be a protected antiquity and includes any article, object or thing referred to in sub-clause (b) of clause (ii).