Lawgist16Application for registration and grant of certificate of registration
(1) Every person required to register any antiquity before the registering officer under section 14 shall make an application to the registering officer for the grant of a certificate of registration.
(2) Every application under sub-section (1) 1shall, in the case of such antiquities or class of antiquities as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify, be accompanied] by such photographs of the antiquity which is to be registered and by such number of copies, not exceeding six, as may be prescribed and shall be made in such form and shall contain such particulars as may be prescribed.
(3) On receipt of an application under sub-section (1), the registering officer may, after holding such inquiry as he deems fit, grant a certificate of registration containing such particulars as may be prescribed.
(4) No application made under this section shall be rejected unless the applicant has been given a reasonable opportunity of being heard in the matter.
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1. Subs. by Act 82 of 1976, s. 3, for "shall be accompanied" (w.e.f. 4-6-1976).
- 1 Short title, extent and commencement
- 2 Definitions
- 3 Regulation of export trade in antiquities and art treasures
- 4 Application of Act 52 of 1962
- 5 Antiquities to be sold only under a licence
- 6 Appointment of licensing officers
- 7 Application for licence
- 8 Grant of licence
- 9 Renewal of licence
- 10 Maintenance of records, photographs and registers by licensees
- 11 Revocation, suspension and amendment of licences
- 12 Persons whose licences have been revoked may sell antiquities to other licensees
- 13 Power of Central Government to carry on the business of selling antiquities to the exclusion of others
- 14 Registration of antiquities
- 15 Appointment of registering officers
- 16 Application for registration and grant of certificate of registration
- 17 Transfer of ownership, etc., of antiquities to be intimated to the registering officer
- 18 Provisions of sections 14, 16 and 17 not to apply in certain cases
- 19 Power of Central Government to compulsorily acquire antiquities and art treasures
- 20 Payment of compensation for antiquities and art treasures compulsorily acquired under section 19
- 21 Appeals against decisions of licensing officers and registering officers
- 22 Appeals against awards of arbitrators
- 23 Powers of entry, search, seizure, etc
- 24 Power to determine whether or not an article, etc., is antiquity or art treasure
- 25 Penalty
- 26 Cognizance of offences
- 27 Magistrate’s power to impose enhanced penalties
- 28 Offences by companies
- 29 Protection of action taken in good faith
- 30 Application of other laws not barred
- 31 Power to make rules
- 32 Repeal
- 33 Amendment of Act 24 of 1958
