MONUMENTS AND RELICS

CHAPTER 29:01
MONUMENTS AND RELICS

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

    SECTION

PART I
PRELIMINARY

    1.    Short title

    2.    Interpretation

PART II
ADMINISTRATION

    3.    Chief Antiquities Officer and other staff

    4.    Duties of the Chief Antiquities Officer

PART III
THE MONUMENTS AND RELICS ADVISORY COUNCIL

    5.    Establishment and composition of the Council

    6.    Secretary to the Council

    7.    Functions of the Council

    8.    Meetings of the Council

    9.    Members not deemed public officers

    10.    Allowances

PART IV
DECLARATION, CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION OF PROTECTED

MONUMENTS AND RELICS

    11.    Protected monuments and relics

    12.    Acceptance of monuments and relics

    13.    Prohibition on alteration, etc.

    14.    Structures, buildings, etc., erected in contravention of this Act

    15.    Agreements for conservation and preservation of monuments and relics

    16.    Owners who are under disability

    17.    Enforcement of agreements

    18.    Compulsory acquisition of monuments or relics by the Minister

    19.    Limitation on powers of compulsory purchase or acquisition of monuments and relics

    20.    Custody of protected monuments and relics

    21.    Maintenance of protected monuments and relics

PART V
LISTING OF MONUMENTS OF NATIONAL OR LOCAL IMPORTANCE

    22.    List of national monuments

    23.    List of monuments of local importance

    24.    Demolition, etc., of listed monuments

PART VI
OWNERSHIP, DISCOVERY, COLLECTION, EXCAVATION AND REMOVAL OF

MONUMENTS AND RELICS

    25.    Ownership of monuments and relics

    26.    Transfer of ownership, etc., of protected monuments or relics

    27.    Notification of discovery of monuments or relics.

    28.    Authorization for archaeological research

    29.    Rescue archaeology

    30.    Archaeological permits

    31.    Obligations of the holder of an excavation permit

    32.    Excavation permits not transferrable

    33.    Government to refrain from certain acts of publication, etc.

    34.    Cancellation of excavation permit

    35.    Research co-operation

PART VII
DEALING IN MONUMENTS AND RELICS

    36.    No dealing in monuments and relics unless licensed

    37.    Dealer’s licence

    38.    Cancellation of licence

    39.    Prohibition of fraud in monuments and relics

PART VIII
EXPORTATION AND IMPORTATION OF MONUMENTS AND RELICS

    40.    Export licence

    41.    Applications for an export licence

    42.    Validity and duration of an export licence

    43.    Export levy

    44.    Value of monuments and relics for purpose of export levy

    45.    Packing of monuments or relics for export

    46.    Seizure of monuments or relics exported without a licence

    47.    Offence for illegal exports

    48.    Temporary export and import permits

    49.    Recovery of smuggled monuments or relics

PART IX
GENERAL

    50.    Right of access

    51.    Relinquishment of control over monuments and relics

    52.    Removal of protection

    53.    Publication in the Gazette

    54.    Public donations

    55.    General offences

    56.    General penalty

    57.    No suit against public offices, etc.

    58.    Regulations

PART X
REPEAL AND SAVINGS

    59.    Repeal and savings

CHAPTER 29:01
MONUMENTS AND RELICS

16 of 1990
G.N. 41/1991

    An Act to repeal the Monuments Act; to make provision for the conservation, preservation and study of cultural heritage including places of distinctive natural beauty and of sites, buildings and objects of archaeological, palaeontological, geological, anthropological, ethnological, historical, prehistorical and other interests; and to provide for the declaration of protected monuments and relics and acquisition thereof by the Government and the acquisition by the Government of rights and trusteeship over monuments and relics and for the preservation thereof by agreement with the owners; and to provide for the listing of monuments and the registration of monuments and relics; and to provide for the procedure to be followed in relation to the discovery, excavation, removal, sale, exportation and importation of monuments, relics and collections of cultural heritage; and to establish an advisory council to advise the Minister on matters aforesaid; and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto

PART I
PRELIMINARY

1.    Short title

    This Act may be cited as the Monuments and Relics Act.

2.    Interpretation

    In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

    ‘‘Chief Antiquities Officer’’ means the person appointed as such pursuant to section 3 and includes any officer subordinate to him;

    ‘‘collection’’, in relation to relics, means a permanent collection thereof;

    ‘‘conservation’’ means measures taken to prevent destruction, deterioration or loss of cultural and natural heritage of Malawi;

    ‘‘Council’’ means the Monuments and Relics Advisory Council established under section 5 (1);

    ‘‘excavation’’ means the removal of any overburden deposit or the exposure of any buried or partially buried material in Malawi;

    ‘‘listed monument’’ means a monument which is included in a list compiled under section 22 or 23;

    ‘‘local authority’’ means the owner of a monument or relic, or an institution or organization, whether a company, or…