Fort is not an ancient monument as defined and comprehended by the Ancient Monuments Act in Section 2 thereof, or that it cannot be justifiably ... implants into the Ancient Monuments Act the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, 1984 deeming the maintenance of protected monuments to constitute a public province
under this Act; (k) "protected monument" means a monument which is declared to be a protected monument under this Act; (l) "unauthorized occupation" means ... Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958 (Central Act 24 of 1958). CHAPTER-II Protected Monuments 4. Power of Government to declare monument
Lekhi that the DDA Act purportedly being the special act would override the the 1958 Act (purportedly being the general act) would not, therefore, arise ... Therefore, in our view the 1958 Act is the special act and the DDA Act is the general act. In this view of the matter
passed to preserve and protect the ancient and historical monuments is the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act, 1904 , which provides inter alia for the preservation ... Official Gazette to declare an ancient monument to be a protected monument under the said Act. It would therefore be manifest that all ancient
suit property under the
Ancient Monuments Preservation Act, 1904
(Ancient Monuments Act ) and a notification has
been published in that regard and the suit
property ... Ancient Protected Monuments incharge of the
Executive Engineer. Thereafter, the Government
of India enacted the Ancient Monuments And
Archaeological Sites and Remains Act
oblivious to the importance of preservation of such monuments and, thus, the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act, 1904 was brought into force to provide for preservation ... Section 3 , ipso facto, declared the earlier protected monuments to be protected monuments under the Act and is as under:-
"3. Certain ancient monuments
subject which engages the Court. This was the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act, 1904 . The last of the legislation on this subject, after the Constitution came ... Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958 . Bihar also has a State legislation, known as the Bihar Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites, Remains
Section 4 in Delhi Ancient and Historical Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 2004
4. Power of Government to declare monument to be protected
Section 19 in Delhi Ancient and Historical Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 2004
19. Power to prevent destruction of monument.
- Notwithstanding anything contained ... opinion that a particular monument which has not been declared a protected monument under this Act is being destroyed either deliberately or otherwise
that the question whether these discoveries will come within the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act, 1904 , statuettes being objects of archaeological, historical or artistic interests ... under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958 or the Bihar Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites Remains and Art Treasures Act
