# Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Act 2017, Paragraph Article 1: Definition of cultural property


For the purposes of the present Convention, the term ‘cultural property’ shall cover, irrespective of origin or ownership:
(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;
(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);
(c) centers containing a large amount of cultural property as defined in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b), to be known as ‘centers containing monuments’.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/6/schedule/1/part/chapter/I./paragraph/Articlen1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/cultural-property-armed-conflicts-act-2017/schedule-1/part/chapter-I./paragraph-Articlen1
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