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	SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS OF PUNISHMENT OF EXCAVATING ANCIENT CULTURAL SITES AND ANCIENT TOMBS

	(Order No. 48 of the President: Adopted at the 20th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Seventh National People's Congress on June 29, 1991)


SUBJECT : ANCIENT CULTURAL SITES AND ANCIENT TOMBS; EXCAVATION
ISSUING DEPARTMENT : THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
ISSUE DATE : 06/29/1991
IMPLEMENT DATE : 06/29/1991
LENGTH : 234 words
TEXT :

The 20th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Seventh National
People's Congress decides to make the following provisions supplementary to the Criminal Law:

Whoever excavates ancient cultural sites and ancient tombs of historical, artistic or scientific value shall be sentenced to fixed- term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years, and may concurrently be punished with a fine. If the circumstances are relatively minor, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and may concurrently be punished with a fine. Under any of the following circumstances, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years, or life imprisonment or death, and shall concurrently be punished with a fine or confiscation of property:

(1) Excavating ancient cultural sites and/or ancient tombs which is designated as major sites to be protected for their historical and cultural value at the national level or at the provincial level;

(2) Being the ringleader of a gang engaged in excavating ancient cultural sites and/or ancient tombs;

(3) Excavating ancient cultural sites and/or ancient tombs for many times; or

(4) Excavating ancient cultural sites and/or ancient tombs and robbing valuable cultural relics therein, or causing serious damage to valuable cultural relics therein.

All cultural relics seized from excavating and robbing sites of ancient culture or ancient tombs shall be recovered.