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OFFICIAL TRANSLATION

POLITICAL CONSTITUTION OF PERU

1993
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Nº 3398-07

EL PERUANO
Legal Regulations

Director: Horacio GAGO PRIALE Special Edition Lima, December 30, 1993

Democratic Constituent Congress

Political Constitution of Peru

1993

Enacted on December 29, 1993

(…)

Article 21º. The archeological sites and remains, buildings, monuments, places,
bibliographical and on file documents, artistic objects and testimonies of historic value
expressly declared as cultural assets, and those provisionally presumed as such, are
cultural heritage of the Nation regardless of its condition of private or public property.
These are protected by the State.

The law guarantees the ownership of such heritage.

In compliance with the law, the State promotes the private participation in the
conservation, restoration, exhibition and diffusion of it, as well as its restitution to the
country when it would have been illegally transferred out of the national territory.
(…)

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Round seal: El Peruano Official Gazette - Newspaper and Periodicals Library

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“Year of the citizens’ duties” - The undersigned, Certifying Officer of El Peruano Official

Gazette, does hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the Political

Constitution of Peru: Pages N° 01, 05 published on December 30, 1993, edition Nº

17002 Special Supplement. - Lima, December 4, 2007 - (seal and signature) Maria

APAESTEGUI SILVA - Certifying Officer - El Peruano Official Gazette - “EDITORA

PERU”

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MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS - OFFICE OF CONSULAR AFFAIRS -

AUTHENTICATION Nº 122653 - The preceding signature of Maria APAESTEGUI

SILVA is hereby authenticated without judging the content of the document. - Lima,
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December 4, 2007 - (seal and signature) Virgilio Z. ARENAZA PICKMANS -

Department of Authentications - Office of Consular Formalities - Round seal: Republic

of Peru - Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Office of Consular Formalities - Authentications -

(raised seal)

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Translator’s Note: Only a partial translation of the document attached hereto has been

done.