Section 15

A District Officer receiving notice under subsection (1)

shall communicate the same to the Director.

Upon receipt of the notice under subsection (1), the Director or District Officer shall take such actions as are necessary to protect the integrity of the site where the antiquity was discovered and to prevent damage or loss to the antiquity.

If the District Officer has reason to believe that any object discovered in his District is an antiquity, he may by notice in writing require the person having possession thereof, if it is practicable so to do, to deliver the same forthwith to him and the District Officer on receiving such object shall give a receipt therefor.

Where any object has been delivered to a District Officer under subsection (1) or (4) or where the District Officer has reason to believe that any object discovered in his District is an antiquity, he shall give notice thereof to the Director.

Any person who, being the finder of an antiquity, fails to report the antiquity, or to take action to protect it, or to state the circumstances of the discovery of the origin of the antiquity, or wilfully makes a false statement of such circumstances or such origin, shall be guilty of an offence and shall, upon conviction, be punished with a fine not exceeding twenty thousand ringgit or imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to both.

Antiquities to be registered