Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) If State Government apprehends that any purchase of historical object is in danger of being destroyed, injured, historical •altered, mutilated, defaced, removed or dispersed or falling object, into decay, the State Government may pass orders for the compulsory purchase of such object at its market-value, and the Collector shall thereupon give notice to the owner of the object to be purchased. (_2) The power of compulsory purchase given by this •ection shall not extend to— (a) any image or symbol actually used for the purpose ot any religious observance; or (b) anything which the owner desires to retain on any reasonable ground personal to himself or to any of his ancestors or to any member of his family Excavation of Archaeological Sites.