54. To apply this Act and the regulations, the Minister may authorize a functionary or an expert to enter at any reasonable hour a place where cultural property is situated, or an immovable situated in a historic or natural district, or a protected area, and there to carry out excavations and works required for expertise, subject to indemnity for any damage caused.
1972, c. 19, s. 54; 1978, c. 23, s. 24.