Adopted at the 16th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People's Congress on October 30, 1995, revised at the 13th session of the Standing Committee of the Tenth National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on December 29, 2004; and amended for the second time in accordance with the Decision of Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Amending the Cultural Relics Protection Law of the People's Republic of China and Other Eleven Laws as adopted at the Third Session of the Standing Committee of the Twelfth National People's Congress on June 29, 2013