Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Amending Article 30 and Article 31 of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Cultural Relics

Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Amending Article 30 and Article 31 of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Cultural Relics
(Adopted by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and issued by the Order of the President of the People's Republic of China on June 29, 1991)

The bill of the Amendment to the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Culture Relics proposed by the State Council has been deliberated at the 20th Session of the Standing Committee of the Seventh National People's Congress, and it is decided to make amendments to Article 30 and Article 31 of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Cultural Relics as follows:
I. The following five items shall be added to acts subject to administrative penalty in Article 30:
1. Those who scrawl or smear on or damage cultural relics yet do not cause serious damage thereto, or destroy the signs of cultural relic sites under protection which is put up in accordance with Article 9 of this Law shall be fined or ordered to make compensation for the loss by the competent public security departments or the entities where the cultural relics are located;
2. In the case of conducting construction project within the protection area of a cultural relic site in violation of Article 11 thereof or establishing buildings or structures in an area for the control of construction within a cultural relic site under protection in violation of Article 12 thereof, the competent department for urban and rural planning shall, directly or in accordance with the opinions of the department for cultural administration, order a shutdown, and dismantle the illegal buildings and structures, or impose a penalty;
3. In the case of conducting such activities as blasting, digging near the cultural relic sites under protection, which endangers the cultural relics, the competent public security departments shall, directly or according to the opinions presented by the competent departments for cultural administration, halt the activities, and may impose a penalty;
4. Where entities engaging in cultural relics business operation conduct cultural relics business without authorization of the departments for cultural administration, upon being examined and identified by the industrial and commercial administrative authorities, together with the departments for cultural administration, the industrial and commercial administrative authorities shall confiscate the illegal gains therefrom and may also impose a penalty or confiscate the cultural relics under illegal business operation;
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