Malaysia legislation
Section 19
Section 19
(2)
A licence issued under this section shall be for such period and subject to such conditions as the Director may prescribe:
Provided that:
(a)
the Director may, at the expiration of any such licence, extend it for such further period as he shall deem fit; and
(b)
no licence shall be issued without the consent of the registered proprietor or any person lawfully entitled to the land over which the licence is to be issued.
(3)
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the infringement of any private right or the contravention of any law in force in Sarawak.
(4)
Neither the Director nor the Government shall incur any liability in respect of any loss sustained by the person or of any damage caused to any person in the course of or as a result of any excavation carried on under the authority of a licence issued under this
Part by reason merely of the issuance of such licence.
(5)
Any person, not being the holder of an licence to excavate issued under subsection (1), who digs for antiquity or historical object, or demolishes any ancient walls or other structures or objects which are antiquities or historical objects within the meaning of this
Ordinance, whether above or below the ground, even though these acts are done upon land of which he is the owner or occupier, 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.
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Conditions of licences