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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cultural-property-armed-conflicts-act-2017/schedule-1/part/chapter-I./paragraph-Articlen1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2017/6",
  "legislation_title": "Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Act 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cultural-property-armed-conflicts-act-2017",
  "path": "schedule/1/part/chapter/I./paragraph/Articlen1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "Article 1",
  "heading": "Definition of cultural property",
  "text": "For the purposes of the present Convention, the term ‘cultural property’ shall cover, irrespective of origin or ownership:\n(a) movable or immovable property of great importance to the cultural heritage of every people, such as monuments of architecture, art or history, whether religious or secular; archaeological sites; groups of buildings which, as a whole, are of historical or artistic interest; works of art; manuscripts, books and other objects of artistic, historical or archaeological interest; as well as scientific collections and important collections of books or archives or of reproductions of the property defined above;\n(b) buildings whose main and effective purpose is to preserve or exhibit the movable cultural property defined in sub-paragraph (a) such as museums, large libraries and depositories of archives, and refuges intended to shelter, in the event of armed conflict, the movable cultural property defined in sub-paragraph (a);\n(c) centers containing a large amount of cultural property as defined in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b), to be known as ‘centers containing monuments’.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/6/schedule/1/part/chapter/I./paragraph/Articlen1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:05:44.490145+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}