DISCLAIMER: As Member States provide nationallagislations. hypertinks and explenatory notes (if any). UNESCO does not guarantee their accuracy. nor their up-deting 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 (C UNESCO). (6) The member presiding as chairman at a meeting of the commission shall have a deliberative vote as well as a casting vote. (7) Three members present at a meeting of the commission shall constitute a quorum and a decision of a majority of members of the commission present at a meeting shall be deemed to be a decision of the commission. (8) A member of the commission shall vacate his office (a) if he has been absent from three consecutive meetings of the commission without the permission oHhe chairman; or (b) if he is in the opinion of the Minister unable or unfit to discharge the functions and duties of a member of the commission. 4. (1) The commission may(a) make a list of all objects whose proclamation under section 8 it considers desirable; (b) take steps to ascertain the owners of any object; (c) purchase or otherwise acquire any such object or by agreement with the Government or any public body or with any private person having the ownership or control of any such object, take such 'steps as may be practicable to preserve it ; (d) take steps for the erection of tablets in suitable places giving information in both official languages of Lesotho about historical events which occurred at such places; (e) assume control over any such object if requested by the person having the ownership or control thereof so to do, and as trustee for the Government accept any such object which the owner desires to donate or has bequeathed to the Government; (f) preserve, repair, restore or insure any monument, relic, or antique under Its control; (g) lend any such relic or antique-to any museum or other public institution,;' (h) recommend to the Minister the proclamation of anY sueh objects In terms of section 8 ; and (i) through any of its members have access at aU reasonable times to any monument or relic proclaimed . . under section 8. (2) The commission shall (a) when required by the Minister investigate,and report upon any matter relating to any object proclaimed under section 8 or upon the desirability/of so proclaiming any object ; (b) on or before the thirty-first day of·;Oecember in eVery year furnish to the Minister a report upon its work during the year ended on thirty.:.first day of1'i/larch last preceding and on any other matters connected with the preservation of monuments, relics and antiques which it may desire to bring to the attention of the Minister; and ' (c) make a register of all the monuments, relics, antiques, fauna, and flora proclaimed as such under ' section 8. 5. No remuneration shall be paid to the menibers of the commission, but each member may draw from the funds of the commission his reasonable expenses for travelling and subsistence while engaged upon the business of the commission at such rates as the Minister'may prescribe. 6. The funds of the commission shall consist of such grants, donations, fees, and annual subscriptions as may from time to time be made to it or be payable to it. 7. Save with written consentof1he Minister, the commission shall not alienate, hypothecate, or let any object which is its property or for which it is trustee as aforesaid. 8. The Minister may from time to time on the recommendation of the commission by notice in the Gazette, proclaim to be(a) a monument, any area of land having a distinctive or beautiful scenery or geological formation, any area of land containing a rare or distinctive or beautiful flora or fauna, any area of land containing objects of archeological, historical or scientific interest, any waterfall, cave, grotto, avenue of trees, old tree or old building and any other object (whether natural or constructed by man) of aesthetic, historical, archeological or scientific value or interest; (b) a relic, any fossil of any kind, any drawing of painting on stone or petroglyph known or commonly believed to have been executed by Bushmen or other aborigines of southern Africa or by any people who inhabited or visited southern Africa in ancient days, and any implement or ornament known or commonly believed to have been used by them and any anthropological or archeological contents of the graves, caves, rock, shelters, middens, shell mounds or other sites used by them;