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(c) an antique, any movable object (not being a monument or a reliC) of aesthetic, historical, archeological,
or scientific value or interest, the whole or more valuable portion of whereof has for more than one
hundred years been in any part of southern Africa, or which was made therein more than one hundred
years before the publication of such notice ;
(d) protected fauna or flora, any fauna or flora, the species or kind whereof is described in such notice.
9. (1) Whenever the owner of any object, proclaimed under the provisions of section B alienates, pledges, or lets it be
shall forthwith inform the commission of the name and address of the alienee, pledgee or lessee.
(2) No person shall, without the written consent of the commission destroy or damage any monument or relic or make
any alteration thereto or remove it from its original site or export it from Lesotho.
(3) A person desiring to remove a monument or relic from its original site or export it from Lesotho shall ~en applying
to the commission for its consent, supply the commission with a drawing or photograph of the monument or relic in
question and shall state the exact locality in which it is situated and the place to which and purposes for which it is
desired to remove or export it.
(4) No person having control of any antique shall without the written consent of the commission destroy lOr damage it
or export it from Lesotho.
(5) A person desiring to export an antique from Lesotho shall when applying to the commission for its consent supply
the commission with a photograph and description thereof and shall state the place to which and the purposes for
which it is desired to export the antique.
10. (1) No person shall without the written consent of the commission destroy or damage or remove from its original
habitat or export from Lesotho any fauna claimed under section B.to be protected fauna.
(2) No person shall without the written consent of the commission destroy or,tlamage or remove from its original site
or export from Lesotho any flora proclaimed under section Bto be protected flora.
11. (1) The Minister may, on the recommendation oNhe commission, by'notice in the Gazette prohibit the removal or
the export, without the consent in writing of the commission, ofany object or group or collection of objects which is, in
the opinion of the Minister, capable of being proclaimed under section B.
(2) The owner of any such objects or group or collection Of objects or of any object which forms part of such group or
collection who is affected by any such prohibition, may SUbmit to the commission an objection in writing to that
prohibition. The commission shall transmitlhat objection to the Minister who may thereupon cancel, modify or confirm
the prohibition.
12. A person
(a)
(b)
(c)
who knowinglyfails to comply with or contravenes any provision of section 9 or section 10 ; or
contravenes any prohibition issued under section 11 ; or
in an ..application to the:c;ommission for its consent makes a statement which is false in any material
respect or supplies therewith any drawing or photograph which is false in any material respect; or
(d) damages or destroys any tablet erected in terms of paragraph (d) or subsection (1) of section 4 ; or
(e)tlestroys, damages or mars any drawing, painting or petroglyph described in paragraph (b) of section B
.orany substance near such drawing, painting or petroglyph, or without the consent of the commission
destroys or .damages any part of a cave or rock or on which there is any such drawing, painting or
petroglyph; or
.,(f) withoutlhe consent of the commission destroys, damages or disturbs any grave, cave, rock shelter,
midden or shell mound described in paragraph (b) of section B,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred rands or in default of
payment to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months.
13. The Minister may, after consultation with the commission, make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act,
generally carrying into effect the principles, purposes and provisions of this Act, and in particular but without prejudice
to the generality of the foregoing, he may make regulations prescribing (a) the procedure in connection with meetings of the commission;
(b) the qualifications of its members; and
(c) the rates of travelling and subsistence allowances to be paid to members of the commission.
14. The protection of Relics, Fauna and Flora Proclamation is hereby repeated.