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Payments to
be made
from funds
provided by the
Legislative Council.
Regulations.
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(2) A presumption arising under subsection (1) shall be rebutted if the court is satisfied that the relic or alleged relic-
(a) has been in the possession of a party to the proceedings, or of such a party and any identifiable person from whom he acquired possession, for a period of not less than six years prior to the commencement of the proceedings; or (b) has at any time before the commencement of the pro-
ceedings been imported into Hong Kong.
(3) In any civil or criminal proceedings a certificate, purport- ing to be signed by the Authority and stating that anything is an antiquity, shall be admissible in evidence and shall be prinio facie evidence of the facts stated therein.
21. A sum---
(a) granted under section 7;
(b) awarded as compensation under section 8 or 9:
(c) awarded under section 11(4).
shall be paid from such money as may be provided from time to time by the Legislative Council.
22. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations— (a) prescribing the forms of licences and permits;
(b) prescribing the manner in which applications for licences
and permits shall be made;
(c) prescribing the fees (if any) to be paid to the Authority
upon the grant or renewal of licences;
(d) regulating the conduct of excavations and searches for
antiquities;
(e) providing for the management and control of antiquities
and monuments;
(f) providing for the prohibition and control of access to excavations, monuments and sites, and for the payment, restriction and regulation of entrance fees thereto; and (g) generally for the better carrying out of the provisions of
this Ordinance.
(2) No regulations made under this Ordinance shall-
(a) prohibit or restrict the access lo a monument of the owner or lawful occupier of the monument or of any person beneficially interested therein, or of any person authoriz. ed by the owner, occupier or such person; or
(b) confer upon a person any right which he would not
otherwise have had to enter upon private land.
Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 1st day of December, 1971.
Clerk to the Legislative Council.
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.
Clerk to the Legişlative Council.