Part IV · Right to Constitutional Remedies
Article 49 Protection of monuments and places and objects of national importance.
This article makes the protection of national monuments an obligation of the State. It covers monuments, places, and objects of artistic or historic interest. They must be declared by law to be of national importance. The State must protect each one. It must save them from damage, disfigurement, destruction, removal, disposal, or export.
- It shall be the obligation of the State to protect every monument or place or object of artistic or historic interest, declared by or under law made by Parliament to be of national importance, from spoliation, disfigurement, destruction, removal, disposal or export, as the case may be.
What it means
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This article makes the protection of national monuments an obligation of the State. It covers monuments, places, and objects of artistic or historic interest. They must be declared by law to be of national importance. The State must protect each one. It must save them from damage, disfigurement, destruction, removal, disposal, or export.