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Handwritten: Rec'd Athens 4 March 1936
Printed: THE STATUTE LAWS OF CYPRUS
Printed: No. 41 of 1935.
Printed: A LAW TO CONSOLIDATE AND AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO ANTIQUITIES.
H. R. PALMER,] [30th December, 1935. Governor.
BE it enacted by His Excellency the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Cyprus as follows :—
1. This Law may be cited as the Antiquities Law, 1935. [marginal note: Short title.]
2.In this Law unless the context otherwise requires, [marginal note: Interpretation.] "ancient monument" means—
(a)any object, building or site specified in the First or Second Schedule to this Law;
(b)any other object, building or site in respect of which the Governor in Council has made an Order under section 6 of this Law, and shall include any part of the adjoining land which may be required for the purpose of fencing, covering, or otherwise preserving the monument from injury, as also the means of access to such monument;
"antiquity" means— any object, whether movable or immovable or a part of the soil, which has been constructed, shaped, inscribed, erected, excavated or otherwise produced or modified by human agency earlier than the year 1700 A.D., together with any part thereof which has at a later date been added, reconstructed or restored;
"Colony" means the Colony of Cyprus; "Director" means the Director of Antiquities; "Government" means the Government of the Colony; "land" includes land (with the grazing rights, and all water and water rights on, over or under such land), buildings, trees, easements and standing crops;
"owner" includes— (a) in the case of property in the occupation of any See, Monastery or Church, the Bishop of the Diocese, the governing body of the Monastery or the duly constituted Committee of Management of the Church, for the time being, as the case may be;
(b) in the case of property ... any Mosque, Tekke or other Moslem religious body or institution, the Delegates or Evcaf, or other person administering the trusts of the same, for the time being, as the case may be;
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