ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
National Museums and Heritage Act
27. Exploration licences
Edition: 2023-12-11 · In force
27. Exploration licences
(1)Unless authorized by an exploration licence issued by the Cabinet Secretary after consultation with the Board, no person shall by means of excavation or surface operations search for a buried monument or buried part of a monument, or for a buried antiquity, whether or not in a protected area.(2)Before making recommendations to the Cabinet Secretary on the issuance of an exploration licence, the National Museums shall satisfy itself that the applicant is competent by both training and experience to carry out an exploration or excavation in accordance with the most recent scientific methods, and may require the applicant to satisfy it that he has the support, financial and otherwise, of an archaeological or scientific society or institution of repute.(3)Every exploration licence issued under this section shall contain an agreement that the licensee, or the institution which the licensee represents, will, at such intervals or within such period as may be specified by that licence, produce a detailed written report or publication on the results of the exploration and excavation, and will deposit with the National Museums two copies of the report or publication.(4)An exploration licence may specify, in regard to the acts which it authorizes, such limitations and conditions as the Cabinet Secretary considers necessary—(a)in order to protect a monument from injury, removal or dispersion;(b)in respect of antiquities for the removal of finds to a place in Kenya, or temporarily to a place outside Kenya for the purpose only of special examination or preservative treatment.