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Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 1st day of December, 1971.

HONG KONG

No. 64 OF 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 Legislative Council.

1 assent.

Me Malala

Governor.

2nd December, 1971.

An Ordinance to provide for the preservation of objects of historical, archaeological and palaeontological interest and for matters ancillary thereto or connected therewith.

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Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

PRELIMINARY.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance 1971, and shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette.

Short title and commencement.

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires- Interpretation.

"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;