authority of the Minister:
Provided that the Minister may delegate to the Commissioner authority to pay recurrent
and periodical administrative expenses in excess of P5 000.
(4) The Minister may, in his discretion, sanction payments from the Fund for any of the
purposes mentioned in subsection (1), which, without prejudice to the generality thereof,
may include(a)
the protection of national monuments and of monuments, protected heritage areas,
relics and recent artefacts from damage of any kind, including their fencing and
repair;
(b)
the payment of wages and remuneration to custodians;
(c)
the investigation, exploration and excavation of national monuments and of
monuments, relics and artefacts; or
(d)
the provision of signs at sites of national monuments, monuments, relics, recent
artefacts and protected heritage areas, and on roads and routes leading thereto.
(5) The Commissioner shall within four months after the end of each financial year,
prepare, sign and submit to the Auditor-General, an account of the Fund in respect of that
financial year containing such information and in such form as the Minister may direct.
(6) The Auditor-General shall, as soon as he has completed his examination of the
accounts and statements submitted to him, submit them together with his certificate thereon,
to the Accountant General who shall within four weeks after their submission to him, submit
them together with the Auditor-General's certificate thereon, to the Minister.
(7) The Minister shall, within 30 days after the submission to him of the accounts and
statements in accordance with subsection (6), lay them, together with the Auditor-General's
certificate thereon, before the National Assembly.
22.
Arrest, seizure and ejectment
(1) The Commissioner, every inspector and every custodian may arrest without warrant(a)
any person who commits an offence under this Act in his presence;
(b)
any person whom he has reasonable grounds to suspect has committed an offence
under this Act;
(c)
any person whom he finds attempting to commit an offence under this Act or clearly
manifesting an intention to do so.
(2) The Commissioner, every police officer, every inspector and every custodian may take
or seize from any person to whom subsection (1)(a), (b), or (c) applies, any article by means
of which or in respect of which such person has committed, or is on reasonable grounds
suspected of having committed, or is found attempting or clearly manifesting an intention to
commit, an offence under this Act.
(3) Any person taking or seizing any article in pursuance of subsection (2) shall without
delay deliver it to a judicial officer for sale custody pending the determination of any legal
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