The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (i)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 386] NEW DELHI, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 6, 1979/AGRAHAYANA 15, 1901
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1412 XHH GAZETTE OF INDIA : EXTRAORDINARY [PART U—SEC. 3(i)] 2. After rule 2 of the Antiquities and Art Treasures Rulca, 1973, the following shall be inserted, namely :—ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA
NOTIFlCATfON
New Delhi, the 6th December, 1979
G.S.R. A83(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by tectlon 31 of the Antiquities and Art treasures Act, 1972 (52 of 1972), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Antiquities and Art Treasures Rules, 1973, namely :—
(1) These rules may be called the Antiquities and Art Treasures (Amendment) Rules, 1979.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publi- cation in the Official Gazette.
"2A. Reference to committse of experts for report aa to artistic and aesthetic value of any human work of art.—Where having regard to the nature and other matters pertaining to any human work of art which the Central Government proposes to declare to b" an art treasure under clause (b) of section 2 of the Act the Central Government considers it necessary so to do, it rnay, by notification in the Official Gazette, constitute a committee consisting of not less than three persons having expert knowledge a" to like work* of art to consider and submit a report on the artistic and aesthetic value of the work of art so proposed to be declared.
2B. Notice for ascertaining whether the author of a work of art is alive.—(1) With a view to determining whether the author of any human work of art which the Central Government proposes to declare to ba an art treasure under clause (b) of section 2 of the Act is alive, the Central Government may, by noti- fication in the Official Gazette, give notice of its intention to make such declaration and require—
(a) that in case the author thereof is alive, he shall, within two months from the date of publication of the notification in the Official Gazette, commu- nicate the fact and his address to the Central Government ;
(b) that any other person knowing such author to have been alive within thirty years, to make known to the Central Government the name of the author and the fact of the author being alive and his address or, as the case may be, tho date on which the author was last seen alive and the last knows address of the author,
(2) A copy of a notice published under sub-rule (1) may also be published in any Indian or foreign newspaper or journal.
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B. K. THAPAR, Director General Archaeological Survey