CHAPTER  II

THE MOVABLE CULTURAL HERITAGE

ARTICLE  19

1. The displacement  from certain places of the movable cultural heritage objects, being state property of ordinary or particular values, of national or unique ones, to safeguard, restore, search or exhibit them within the country or the alienation of the property, is made upon the authorization of the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports.
2. The displacement  from certain places of the movable cultural heritage objects, being state property of common values, to safeguard, restore, search or exhibit them out of the territory of the Republic of Albania, is made upon the authorization of the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports.
3. The transfer of the movable cultural heritage objects, of exceptional national and unique values, with the aim to protect, restore, study or exhibit them out of the territory of the Republic of Albania, is executed upon the authorization of the Council of Ministers. The procedures of such transfers are defined by the directive of the Council of Ministers, following the international conventions being ratified  by the Republic of Albania to this end.
4. In any case, the permission issued should be registered to the National Center of Cultural Properties’ Inventory.

ARTICLE  20

1. The cultural heritage objects being extra special, of national and unique character, are not gifted and exchanged, whatever the case.
2. On special occasions, the movable cultural heritage objects may be given as presents or exchanged between  homologue institutions in other countries, when it is to the benefits of the nation and the objects are of equal value. The gift or the exchange is made upon the decree of the Council of Ministers.

ARTICLE  21

1. The Albanian state directly becomes the legal proprietor of the cultural heritage objects, which do not belong to the state property, but they are stolen or lost, and if their owner is not identified.
2. The Albanian state directly becomes the legal proprietor of the movable cultural heritage objects, which do not belong to the state property but they are illegally elicited abroad.

ARTICLE  22

The movable  cultural heritage objects, the archives and the collections of the governmental and non-governmental institutions as well as those exhibited in the national or local museums, governmental or non-governmental ones, are protected and managed  in accordance with the rules of the institutions themselves, which are compiled in conformity with this Law and with the legislation regarding the archives.

ARTICLE  23

In cases when the buildings where the state archives or other important valuables of the cultural heritage are secured, are turned back to the original proprietors and the expropriation is impossible, the Council of Ministers arranges the settling of these institutions to other proper premises.