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HISTORIC MONUMENTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 21

Obstruction of certain persons.

21.(1) Any person who obstructs a person in the exercise of the powers
conferred on the second-mentioned person by section 4, including that section
as modified by section 19(1), shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) Any person, other than the occupier or owner of the land concerned, who
obstructs a person authorised under section 16(1) or (2) in the performance of
anything which the second-mentioned person is so authorised to do shall be
guilty of an offence.

(3) If any person, being the occupier or owner of the land concerned, prevents
a person authorised under section 16(1) or (2) from doing anything on the land
which he is so authorised to do, a court of summary jurisdiction, on proof
thereof, may order the first-mentioned person to permit to be done on the land
all things requisite for doing such things as aforesaid, and, if the
first-mentioned person fails to comply with the order, he shall be guilty of
an offence.

(4) Any person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on
summary conviction to a fine not exceeding #50.

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