Section 14: Powers in relation to antiquity pending declaration as national monument

Where a notice has been published in respect of antiquity under subsection (1) of section 13 of this Act, and the Commission considers that it is necessary to take immediate steps for the protection or preservation of an antiquity, the Commission may if so authorised by the Governor of the State where the antiquity is, do all such things as it would have been entitled to do if the antiquity had been declared a national monument:
Provided that the Commission shall not, save with the consent of the owner of the antiquity, exercise the power conferred by this section at any time after the Commission has been informed that the President has refused to declare the antiquity to be a national monument or, if the Commission has not been so informed, within three months of the publication of the notice aforesaid and the antiquity has not been so declared after the expiry of the said three months.