Registering Office
Registering Offices are established under the Antiquities and art Treasures Act 1972 Which regulate the export trade in antiquities and art treasures and provide for the prevention of the smuggling of and fraudulent dealing in antiquities. The act provides the scope and initiate the holder of antiquities to register their art object and antiquities in the favour of its protection in various ways.
The antiquities ; includes sculptures, painting epigraphs or other work of art or craftsmanship, any article, object or thing detached from a building or caves, any articles object or thing illustrative of science art. Crafts literature, religion, customs mortals or politics in bygone ages. Any article object or thing of historical interest, which has been in existence for not less than one hundred years; and any manuscript, record or other document which is of scientific historical, literary or aesthetic value and which has been in extended for not less than seventy five years.
Under this Act any person requiring registering to any antiquity before the Registering officer under section 14 shall make an application to the registering officer for the grant of a certificate of registration. Every application under sub section {1} shall be accompanied by such photographs of the antiquity which is to be registered and by number of copies as may be prescribed. On receipt of an application the Registering officer may, after holding such inquiry’s he deems fit, grant certificate of registration containing such particulars as may be prescribed
Under above said Act of Government of India and Antiquities and Art treasure Rules 1973, the Registering offices were established in 1975 by state Government. At present two Registering offices at Bhopal and Jabalpur are functioning. Every Registering office is targeted to register at least 120 antiquities annually. Till the day total 26900 antiquities have been registered under this act.