CHAPTER 59:03
MONUMENTS AND RELICS
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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Short title
Interpretation
Appointment of officers
Honorary officers
Functions of a custodian
Functions of an Inspector
Functions of the Commissioner
Powers of the Commissioner
Agreements for preservation of national monuments, etc.
Declaration of national monuments
Declaration of recent historic monuments, etc.
Notification of discoveries
Minister's option to acquire ownership
Minister's power to acquire access to national monument
Minister's power to prevent access to national monument
No excavation without permission of Minister
No archaeological research without permission of Minister
No alterations, damage or removal without consent of Minister
Pre-development impact assessment
Damage to erected tablets and other identification notices
Establishment of Monuments and Relics Fund
Arrest, seizure and ejectment
Offences and penalties
Regulations
Savings
Act 12, 2001.
An Act to re-enact, with amendments, the Monuments and Relics Act (Cap. 59:03).
[Date of Commencement: 24th August, 2001]
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Short title
This Act may be cited as the Monuments and Relics Act.
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Interpretation
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
"ancient monument" means any building, ruin, remaining portion of a building or ruin,
ancient working, stone circle, grave, cave, rock shelter, midden, shell mound, archaeological
site, or other site or thing of a similar kind, which is known or believed to have been erected,
constructed or used in Botswana before 1st June, 1902;
"ancient working" means any shaft, cutting, tunnel, quarry or stope or any building or
machinery appertaining thereto, which was made or used for mining purposes in Botswana
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