Part 4: Property exported from occupied territory
Under the First Protocol, the United Kingdom is under an obligation to take cultural property which has been exported from occupied territory and imported into the United Kingdom into its custody, and to return that property to the competent authorities at the close of hostilities. Further, under Article 21 of the Second Protocol, the United Kingdom must take measures to suppress any illicit export, other removal or transfer of ownership of cultural property from occupied territory in violation of the Convention or the Second Protocol. This Part of the Act enables the United Kingdom to implement those obligations.