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Restrictions on excavations – (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 23, no excavation or other like operation for archaeological or historical purposes shall be undertaken or authorised to be undertaken in any area except with the previous approval of the Central Government and in accordance with such rules and directions, if any, as the Central Government may make or give in this behalf. (2) Where, in the exercise of the power conferred by section 22, the rights of any person are infringed by the occupation or disturbance of the surface of any land, the State Government shall pay to that person compensation for such infringement.