10-B. Prohibited and regulated areas.

10-B. Prohibited and regulated areas.––Every area, beginning at the limit of the protected area or the protected monument, as the case may be, and extending to a distance of 100 metres in all directions shall be the prohibited area in respect of such protected area or protected monument, both in respect of protected monuments, declared as such or which are proposed to be declared as such protected monument under section 3 : Provided that the Government may on the recommendation of the Director, Archaeology by notification in the official Gazette, specify an area exceeding the distance of hundred metres to be the prohibited area.