Section 80 — SARAWAK HERITAGE ORDINANCE, 2019

(a)

determine the terms and conditions and the fees, if any, upon which licences or permits under this Ordinance may be issued or granted;

(b)

govern the registration of antiquities, historical objects, buildings, historical monuments, historical sites, underwater heritage sites and heritage buildings or sites;

(c)

prescribe the forms necessary for the implementation of this Ordinance;

(d)

govern the grant of licences or permits which are required to be prescribed or which may be prescribed under this

Ordinance;

(e)

give incentives or due recognition to traditional craftsmen;

(f)

develop, preserve, safeguard and perpetuate traditional arts, handicraft, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expression;

(g)

prescribe the procedures for the registration and authorization of the exploitation of the traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expression;

(h)

prescribe the conservation management plan for the conservation and preservation of a conservation area;

(i)

regulate the demolition, dismantlement, alteration, defacement of, or interference with any building operation approved under sections 36 and 42;

(j)

regulate the conduct of excavations, searches for antiquities and surface findings;

(k)

provide for the management and control of antiquities, historical objects, buildings, underwater heritage sites, heritage buildings or sites and historical sites, including buffer zones;

(l)

impose penalties for the contravention of any rules made under this section;

(m)

prescribe the forms to be used in and the method and procedure for compounding offences; and

(n)

prescribe anything which is required to be, or may be, prescribed under this Ordinance.

(2)

No rules made under this Ordinance shall—

(a)

prohibit or restrict the right of access of the owner or lawful occupier of the building, heritage building or site and historical site or of any person beneficially interested therein, or of any person authorized by the owner, occupier or such person;

or

(b)

confer upon a person any right which he would not otherwise have had to enter upon private land.

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