Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023

Minister may prescribe requirements for certification of exports of cultural property

127. (1) Subject to subsection (2), for the purposes of compliance by the State with the requirements of Article 6 of the Convention, there may be prescribed procedures and requirements under which cultural property, being cultural property which falls within a class of objects prescribed under section 126 as cultural property for the purposes of the Convention, which is exported shall be accompanied by a certificate specifying that the export is authorised under the law of the State.

(2) There may be prescribed exemptions from the procedures and requirements referred to in subsection (1) in the case of cultural property which cannot be exported except pursuant to—

(a) a licence, or

(b) a licence granted under the Act of 1997.