Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance

(1)
Subject to
section 4
, the Authority may, after consultation with the Board and with the approval of the Chief Executive, by notice in the Gazette, declare any place, building, site or structure, which the Authority considers to be of public interest by reason of its historical, archaeological or palaeontological significance, to be a monument, historical building or archaeological or palaeontological site or structure.
(Amended
38 of 1982 s. 4
.
59 of 2000 s. 3
)
(2)
A declaration under subsection (1) may include as part of a monument any land adjoining the place, building, site or structure required for fencing, covering or protecting the monument or for providing or facilitating access thereto.
(3)
A notice under subsection (1) shall include a reference to the appropriate plan deposited under subsection (4).
(4)
The Authority shall, before publication of a declaration under subsection (1
)—
(a)
sign and deposit in the Land Registry a plan clearly showing the situation of the place, building, site or structure intended by the Authority to be declared to be a monument; and
(Amended
38 of 1982 s. 4
;
20 of 2002 s. 5
)
(b)
if the declaration relates to a monument within private land, register the declaration in the Land Registry.
(Amended
8 of 1993 s. 2
)
(5)
The Authority
shall—
(a)
keep available at his office, for public inspection at all reasonable times, a copy of every plan deposited under subsection (4); and
(b)
at the request of the owner or a lawful occupier of a monument which is shown on a plan so deposited, deliver a copy of the plan free of charge to the owner or occupier.