law: Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958
  7.Owners under disability or not in
  
  possession.-
  (1) If the owner of a protected monument is
  
  unable, by reason of infancy or other disability, to act for himself, the
  
  person legally competent to act on his behalf may exercise the powers conferred
  
  upon an owner by section 6.
  (2) In the case of village property, the
  
  headman other village-officer exercising powers of management over such
  
  property may exercise the powers conferred upon an owner by section 6.
  (3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to
  
  empower any person not being of the same religion as the person on whose behalf
  
  he is acting to make or execute an agreement relating to a protected monument
  
  which or any part of which is periodically used for the religious worship or
  
  observances of that religion.