{"ActName":"PRESERVATION OF OBJECTS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND PALAEONTOLOGICAL INTEREST ACT 1940","FootNoteRels":[],"IsFirstSection":"false","act_description":"

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF OBJECTS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND PALAEONTOLOGICAL INTEREST

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[POAP 2]\u2003Interpretation2\u2003

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires\u2014
Board

means the Board of Trustees established under the provisions of the Fiji Museum Act 1929;

maintain
and
maintenance

include the fencing, covering in, repairing, restoring and cleansing of a monument, and the doing of any act which may be necessary for the purpose of maintaining a monument or of securing convenient access thereto;

monument

means\u2014

  • (a)any object of archaeological or palaeontological interest, and
  • (b)any area of land in which any such object is believed to exist, which the Minister has by notice in the Gazette declared under section 6 to be a monument;

[def am LN 112 of 1970 O 172, effective 8 October 1970]

object of archaeological or palaeontological interest

means any structure, erection, memorial, tumulus, cairn, place of interment, pit-dwelling, trench, fortification, irrigation work, mound, excavation, cave, rock, rockdrawing, painting, sculpture, inscription, monolith, or any remains thereof, fossil remains of man or animals or plants or any bed or beds containing such fossil remains thereof, or any object (or any remains thereof) which is or are of archaeological, anthropological, ethnological, prehistoric or historic interest, and includes\u2014

  • (a)the site on which such object of archaeological or palaeontological interest was discovered or exists;
  • (b)such portion of land adjoining the said site as may be required for fencing or covering in or otherwise preserving such object of archaeological or palaeontological interest; and
  • (c)the means of access to and convenient inspection of such object of archaeological or palaeontological interest; and
owner

includes a joint owner invested with powers of management on behalf of himself or herself and other joint owners and any agent or trustee exercising powers of management over a monument, and the successor in title of any such owner and the successor in offce of any such agent or trustee, provided that nothing in this Act shall be deemed to extend the powers which may lawfully be exercised by such manager or trustee.

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