President

Based on the Constitution

exports the following :

Article 1

Amend the Antiquities Act Legislative Decree No. 222 of 26-10-1963 and its amendments in accordance with the provisions set out in the following articles :

Article 2

Amend article 34 to read as follows :

??? Ownership of registered movable effects may be transferred upon the prior approval of the archaeological authorities ???

Article 3

Chapter 5 on the effects trade repealed articles from (56 to 65) .

Article 4

Chapter VI of the Export of Effects of Materials is repealed from (66 to 74) .

Article 5

Chapter VII-Penalties of articles (75 to 83 bis) Replace with chapter V. Sanctions, and the following articles :

Article 56-is punishable by arrest from fifteen years to 25 years and with a fine of 500,000 liras to 1 million liras, each who escaped the relics or proceeded to smuggle them. .

Article 57-is punishable by arrest from ten to fifteen years and with a fine of 100,000 liras to 500,000 liras each. :

a. Stole a fixed or stable effect .

b. Prospecting shall be conducted in contravention of the provisions of this Law and shall be punishable by the maximum penalty if prospecting has caused serious harm to the effect ,

C-Attraction of effects .

Article 58-It is punishable by arrest from five years to ten years and a fine of twenty-five thousand to five hundred thousand liras each. :

a. Ruined, destroyed, demolished, oblitered or oblitered a fixed or unsigned effect and punished with maximum penalty if the act occurred in the king of the State .

b. Making a piece or pieces that distort historical facts or bestowed upon them the archeological character and punish the punishment of trafficking in antiquities from selling them as archaeological and confiscating manufactured or sold pieces, tools and machinery used in manufacturing and handing over to the archaeological authorities. .

Article 59-is punishable by imprisonment from one year to three years and a fine of 1,000 liras to 10,000 liras each. :

a. A breach of the provisions ( 24 - 25 - 26 .

b. Amended in the construction of an impact property without the approval of the archaeological authorities or on a registered archaeological site .

c. contravened the conditions and association rights imposed on property and adjacent land for historical buildings and archaeological areas .

Article 60-Taking into account the provisions of article 58 of this Law, imprisonment is punishable by imprisonment from three months to three years and a fine of 1,000 liras to 10,000 liras each. :

Damaged, mutated, or renovated with no or no fixed effect. .

Article 61-A penalty of imprisonment of one to two years and a fine of 500 liras to five thousand liras. Any violation of the provisions of the articles. ( 27 - 29 - 35 .

Article 62 is punishable by imprisonment from one month to six months and a fine of a thousand to five thousand liras each. :

a. maimed by drilling, writing, paint or other means .

b. contravened the provisions of articles ( 28 - 34 - 38 .

c. Non-registered effects to be recorded .

d. Transfer of effects from one place to another without authorization .

e. Taking ruins, stones or dust from a place of effect without authorization .

and the use of historical buildings that are not intended for the purpose of which they were established without authorization .

In violation of any other provision of this Act .

Article 63-Any person who enters into their legal jurisdiction shall be punished with the protection of the effects or control of the offences set out in this law if they are informed or informed of the occurrence of one of these offences and have not taken the necessary measures to control them. .

Article 64. Previous provisions are without prejudice to any heavier penalty provided by the Penal Code or any other law plus fines provided for in this Act .

Article 65. In all cases, the court is required to remove the reasons for the offence and to return the matter to its origin for the duration of its appointment. If not done by the archaeological authorities at the expense of the offence, .

Article 66. Confisc. every effect of a transferee violated the provisions of the articles ( 32 - 35 - 40 - 42 .

Article 67. Any effect seized or seized under this law shall be handed over to the archaeological authorities .

Article 68. When the smuggling or stolen effects of the unauthorized excavation cannot be confiscated or destroyed, the value of such effects shall be fined in the light of the discretion of the archaeological authorities, in addition to the penalties provided for in this law .

Article 6

Replace title (Chapter VIII. Miscellaneous Provisions) Title (Chapter VI. Miscellaneous Provisions) Start with the following article. :

Article 69-Archaeological authorities have to give export leave for the following things :

a. Implications for exchange with museums and scientific bodies outside the Syrian Arab Republic .

b. Implications for a scientific body, association or mission for the impact of official prospecting .

The effects described in the preceding two paragraphs are exempt from export duties .

Article 7

Amend No. 84 to No. 70 and the remaining materials are adjusted accordingly in chapter VI .

Article 8

A six-month deadline shall be given to each of the acquired effects that have not been registered with the archaeological authorities for registration as of the date of force of this law .

Article 9

This law is published in the Official Journal. .

Damascus on 13-1-1414 A.H. 28-29-1999

President

Hafez al-Assad

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