Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023

Prohibition against interfering, etc., with relevant archaeological object, etc.

103. (1) Subject to section 102 and subsection (2), a person, other than a relevant person, shall not interfere with or remove a relevant archaeological object, or cause it to be interfered with or removed, except under and in accordance with a licence.

(2) The Board may, where it is of the opinion that a relevant archaeological object is not, or has ceased to be, of sufficient archaeological, historic, cultural or scientific interest to merit the protection afforded by subsection (1), by notice published in Iris Oifigiúil specify that that subsection shall cease to apply to that object from the date, or the occurrence of the event, specified in the notice for the purpose and, accordingly, that subsection shall cease to apply to that object from that date or the occurrence of that event, as the case may be.