DISCLAIMER: As Member States provide national legislations, hyperlinks and explanatory notes (if any), UNESCO does not guarantee their accuracy, nor their up-dating on this web site, and is not liable for any incorrect information. COPYRIGHT: All rights reserved.This information may be used only for research, educational, legal and noncommercial purposes, with acknowledgement of UNESCO Cultural Heritage Laws Database as the source (© UNESCO). the person who m would for the time being be the owner of such monument or a relic as if such rights had not been acquired. 52. The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, declare that R any protected or listed monument or a protected relic shall pi cease to be a protected or listed monument or protected relic. 53. The Minister shall cause to be published in the Gazette(a) once every year, lists of monuments compiled under sections 22 and 23; and (b) the declaration of any monument or relic as a protected monument or a protected relic. 54.-1. There may be raised, from the public or private persons in or outside Malawi, for the conservation, preservation and protection of any monument or relic or for any other purposes of this Act, money and other assets by way of grants, bequests, gifts, and subscriptions or other donations. 2. Any money raised pursuant to subsection (1)(a) may be held on an account including an interest bearing account in a bank or other institution in or outside Malawi approved by the Minister; and (b) shall not be appropriated for any of the purposes for which it was raised except upon the recommendation of the Council and with the approval of the Minister. 55.-1. Save as is provided in this Act, any person who(a) without authority, knowingly alters, destroys, defaces, damages, demolishes, removes from the original site, reproduces a protected monument or protected relic or a listed monument whether in the possession of the Government or a private organization or an individual; (b) possesses an unregistered monument or relic without having shown it to the Minister for registration; (c) in any application to the Minister under this Act, makes any statement which he knows or ought reasonably to know to be false in any material respect, shall be guilty of an offence. 56. Any person guilty of an offence under this Act shall be liable to a fine of K10,000 and to imprisonment for three years. 57. No suit for compensation and no criminal proceedings shall lie against any public officer, local authority or officer of a local authority in respect of any act done or intended to be done, in good faith in the exercise of any power or performance of any duty conferred under the provisions of this Act. 58. The Minister may make regulations for carrying this Act into effect and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such regulations may, in particular, provide for (a) regulating the access of the public to any monument or relic and prescribing the fees, if any, which may be charged for such access; (b) safeguarding monuments or relics from disfigurement alteration or destruction; (c) regulating the excavation and exploration of monuments and relics and research in general;