CAP. 53]
Antiquities and Monuments
[1986 Ed.
CHAPTER 53
Originally 64 of 1971.
L.N. 94/74. L.N. 370/81. 38 of 1982. L.N. 14/83. L.N. 67/85. 29 of 1986.
AN2242/ L.N. 286/75.
ANTIQUITIES AND MONUMENTS
To provide for the preservation of objects of historical, archaeological and palaeontological interest and for matters ancillary thereto or connected therewith.
[1 January 1976.]
PRELIMINARY
Short title.
Interpretation.
2N242/89
(Cap. 128.)
(Cap. 97.)
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance.
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires-
"antiquity" means-
(a) a relic; and
(b) a place, building, site or structure erected, formed or built by human agency before the year 1800 and the ruins or remains of any such place, building, site or structure, whether or not the same has been modified, added to or restored after the year 1799;
"Authority" means the Secretary for Municipal Services; (Replaced, 38 of 1982, s. 2. Amended, L.N. 67/85)
"Board" means the Antiquities Advisory Board established by section 17;
"Crown land" means land other than private land;
"designated person" means-
(a) the officer in charge of a police station;
(b) a police officer of or above the rank of inspector; and
(c) any person specified by the Authority by notice in the Gazette,
"discovery" means the finding in Hong Kong-
(a) in, on or under land or sea;
(b) in or on anything growing on land; or
(c) attached to or within the fabric or foundations of a structure in, on or under land or sea,
of an antiquity or supposed antiquity the presence of which was previously unknown to the owner of such land or structure;
"Land Office" means the Land Office established under the Land Registration Ordinance and any District Land Office established under the New Territories Ordinance;