Cap. 53activeordinance

Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance

古物及古蹟條例

Full legislation

s.12

No excavation, etc., of antiquities, without licence

No person, other than the Authority and a
designated person authorized by him,
shall—
(a)
excavate or search for antiquities except in accordance with a licence granted to him;
(aa)
use a metal detector at any proposed monument or monument except in accordance with a licence granted to him to excavate and search for antiquities;
(Added
38 of 1982 s. 9
)
(b)
remove any relic hitherto undiscovered from a proposed monument or monument, or collect or remove any object which he supposes to be a relic from the site of its discovery, otherwise than for the purposes of protecting the same or in accordance with a licence granted to him.
(Amended
38 of 1982 s. 9
)