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{{Infobox legislation
| short_title = Antiquities and Art Treasures Act, 1972
| imagesize = 150
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| long_title = An Act to regulate the export trade in antiquities and art treasures, to provide for the prevention of smuggling of, and fraudulent dealings in, antiquities, to provide for the compulsory acquisition of antiquities and art treasures for preservation in public places and to provide for certain other matters connected therewith or incidental or ancillary thereto.
| citation = [https://www.indiacode.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/1693/1/a1972-52.pdf Act No. 52 of 1972]
| territorial_extent = India
| enacted_by = [[Parliament of India]]
| date_enacted = 9 September 1972
| assented_by = [[V. V. Giri]]
| date_assented = 9 September 1972
| date_commenced = 5 April 1976 (except for Sikkim)<br/>1 June 1979 (Sikkim)
| amends = Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958
| repeals = Antiquities (Export Control) Act, 1947
| amended_by = Antiquities and Art Treasures (Amendment) Act, 1976
| related_legislation = Antiquities and Art Treasures Rules, 1973
| status = in force
}}

The '''Antiquities and Art Treasures Act, 1972''' was created in accordance with the [[UNESCO 1970 Convention]] to regulate the internal and external dealing in [[antiquities]] in India. Its purpose is to prevent the permanent export of India's treasures so as to preserve the country's cultural wealth.<ref name=Brodie2002>{{cite book |last1=Pachauri |first1=S. K. |editor1-last=Brodie |editor1-first=Neil |editor2-last=Walker Tubb |editor2-first=Kathryn |title=Illicit Antiquities |date=2002 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=0-203-16546-2 |pages=268–269 |chapter-url=https://ds.amu.edu.et/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/13349/0415233887.Routledge.Illicit.Antiquities.The.Theft.of.Culture.and.the.Extinction.of.Archaeology.Dec.2001.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y#page=281 |access-date=4 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231104133448/https://ds.amu.edu.et/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/13349/0415233887.Routledge.Illicit.Antiquities.The.Theft.of.Culture.and.the.Extinction.of.Archaeology.Dec.2001.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y#page=281 |archive-date=4 November 2023 |url-status=live |chapter=15. Plunder of cultural and art treasures – the Indian experience}}</ref><ref name=Gupta2019>{{cite journal |last1=Gupta |first1=Vinay Kumar |title=Retrieval of Indian Antiquities: Issues and Challenges |journal=Art, Antiquity & Law |date=July 2019 |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=101–124 |url=https://www.academia.edu/40661426/RETRIEVAL_OF_INDIAN_ANTIQUITIES_ISSUES_AND_CHALLENGES |access-date=4 November 2023|via=''[[Academia.edu]]''}}</ref><ref name=Shroff2015>{{cite journal |last1=Shroff |first1=Cyril |last2=Shroff |first2=Rishabh |title=India's antiquities laws: an antiquated relic? |journal=Trusts & Trustees |date=1 February 2015 |volume=21 |issue=1-2 |pages=75–85 |doi=10.1093/tandt/ttu221 |url=https://academic.oup.com/tandt/article-abstract/21/1-2/75/2364449|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Indian Treasure Trove Act, 1878]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cite web |title=Antiquities and Art Treasures Act (1972)|url=https://indiaculture.gov.in/sites/default/files/acts_rules/TheAntiquitiesandArtTreasuresAct1972_12.03.2018.pdf |access-date=4 November 2023}}

[[Category:Acts of the Parliament of India 1972]]
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