January–June 1936

24. Any compensation payable under the provisions of section 9 or 12 of this Law may at the option of the Governor be paid by yearly instalments not exceeding five, provided that where payment is made by instalments interest at the rate of 6% per annum shall be payable on outstanding instalments. [margin: Payment of compensation by instalments.]

25. No person shall deal in antiquities unless he is the holder of a dealer's licence granted by the Director. [margin: Dealers to be licensed.]

26.—(1) No person shall export any antiquity from the Colony without a licence to export first obtained from the Director. [margin: Export of antiquities.]

(2) Any person who shall export or attempt to export or who shall aid, counsel or procure any other person to export or attempt to export any antiquity without such a licence shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to imprisonment not exceeding one year or to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to both and any antiquity the property of such person in respect of which the offence has been committed shall be forfeited.

27. The Director may prohibit the export of any antiquity the retention of which in the Colony he considers desirable in the public interest:

Provided that he shall not prohibit the export of—

(a) any antiquity imported into the Colony upon which import duty is proved to his satisfaction to have been paid;

(b) any antiquity used for or devoted to a religious purpose which it is proved to his satisfaction is being exported by a religious or ecclesiastical body for a religious or ecclesiastical purpose. [margin: Power to the Director to prohibit export of antiquities.]

28. The Governor may make loans of antiquities belonging to the Government, to the governing bodies of museums or learned societies without the Colony:

Provided that the party to whom the loan is made shall at their own expense make adequate provision for the preservation, insurance and return of such antiquities. [margin: Loans of antiquities to museums, etc., outside Colony.]

29.—(1) The Governor may appoint a Director and such experts, officers, agents and other persons as may be necessary for the proper carrying out of the objects of this Law. [margin: Appointment of experts, etc.]

(2) The Director may delegate the exercise of any power vested in him under this Law to any other person.

30. Every person in possession of an antiquity shall, at the request of the Director, at all reasonable times, permit the same to be inspected and studied by the Director at the place where such antiquity is kept or deposited and shall give him all reasonable facilities for making drawings, photographs or reproductions thereof by making casts or by any other means:

Provided that no drawings, photographs or reproductions shall be sold without the consent of the person in possession of such antiquity. [margin: Inspection of antiquities by Director.]

31.—(1) Every person in possession of antiquities at the date of the coming into operation of this Law shall, within a period of four months from that date, furnish the Director with a list describing such antiquities to the best of his ability. [margin: List of antiquities to be furnished to Director.]