Power to declare protected monuments or protected areas

(1) The Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare any ancient monument to be protected monument or any archaeological sites and remains to be protected areas for the purpose of this Act and a copy of every such notification shall be affixed in conspicuous place of such monument or archaeological site and remains as the case may be. (2) Any person interested in such monument or archaeological sites and remains may, within sixty days from the date of issue of the notification, submit objections, if any, to such declaration to the Government. (3) On the expiry of the said period of sixty days, the Government may, after considering the objections, if any, shall confirm or modify or withdraw the notification.