2-B. Notice for ascertaining whether the author of a work of art is alive.- (1) With a view to determining whether the author of any human work of art which the Central Government proposes to declare to be an art treasure under Cl. (b) of Sec. 2 of the Act is alive the Central Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, give notice of its intention to make such declaration and require,-
(a) That in case the author thereof is alive, he shall, within two months from the date of publication of the notification in the Official Gazette, communicate the fact and his address to the Central Government;
(b) That any other person knowing such author to have been alive within thirty years, to make known to the Central Government within two months from the date of the publication of the notification in the Offtcial Gazette the name of the author and the fact of the author being alive and his address or, as the case may be, the date on which the author was last seen alive, and the last known address of the author.
(2) A copy of a notice published under sub-rule (1) may also be published in any Indian or Foreign newspaper or journal
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