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(2) Notwithstanding that any antiquity specified in a list furnished to the Director under the provisions of this Law is not contained in a list furnished to the Museum Committee or the Colonial Secretary under the provisions of the Laws hereby repealed or has been obtained or acquired in contravention of any provision of such Laws, the Government shall have no claim to such antiquity and no proceedings shall be taken by the Government against any person in respect thereof.
(3) After the expiration of the period of four months as aforesaid any person having in his possession any antiquity which has not been contained in any list furnished under this section shall, unless he satisfies the Court that he has acquired the same lawfully under the provisions of this Law, be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds and any antiquity in respect of which the offence has been committed shall be forfeited.
(4) Any person who disposes of any antiquity contained in a list furnished by him under the provisions of this section shall, within fourteen days, notify the Director of such disposal. The notification shall contain a description of the antiquity and the name and address of the person to whom it has been disposed.
Disposal of forfeitures. 32. All forfeitures under this Law shall be delivered to the Director who may utilize them for any of the purposes of this Law or for any other purpose in the interests of archaeology.
Regulations. 33. The Governor in Council may make Regulations to be published in the Cyprus Gazette for all or any of the following purposes, that is to say—
(a)for the grant of licences to export antiquities;
(b)prescribing the manner in which applications for a licence to excavate shall be made;
(c)prescribing conditions to be contained in a licence to excavate in addition to those specified in section 16 of this Law;
(d)regulating the days and hours upon which the Cyprus Museum or any District Museum or any ancient monument specified in the First Schedule shall be open to the public and prescribing whether admission shall be free of charge or upon the payment of a fee and fixing such fee (if any);
(e)establishing a Fund (to be called "The Antiquities Fund") into which the moneys standing to the credit of the Cyprus Antiquities Fund established under the Antiquities Laws, 1905 to 1928 and all legacies, donations and subscriptions shall be paid and prescribing the objects for which and the manner in which the moneys in such Fund may be expended;
(f)generally for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Law.
Repeal and saving. 34. The Antiquities Laws, 1905 to 1928, are hereby repealed: 4 of 1905. 6 of 1927. 9 of 1928.
Provided that nothing in this Law shall affect the validity of any licence to excavate granted under the provisions of the Laws hereby repealed and every such licence shall subject to the provisions of the Law under which it was granted be valid and effective for the unexpired term thereof as if this Law had not been enacted.
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