Section 3Sec./Art. 3

Definition of Terms. - For purposes of this Act, the following terms shall be defined as follows:

(a)"Built heritage" refers to architectural and engineering structures such as, but not limited to, bridges, government buildings, houses of ancestry and worship, traditional dwellings, technological and industrial complexes and their settings, and landscapes with notable historical and cultural significance.

(b)"Classified" refers to structures and sites marked and listed as such and recorded in the National Historical Commission of the Philippines's National Registry of Historic Sites and Structures, and not falling under any of the five (5) categories of historic sites and structures, namely: National Shrines, National Monuments, National Landmarks, Heritage Houses and Historic Sites.

(c)"Conservation" refers to all processes and measures of maintaining the cultural significance of a cultural property including, but not limited to, physical, social or legal preservation, restoration, reconstruction, protection, adaptation or any combination thereof.

(d)"Documentation" refers to the recording in a permanent format of information derived from research, conservation and other activities of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP).

(e)"Heritage houses" refers to houses of ancestry with notable historical, cultural, social, architectural and artistic value and significance as declared by the NHCP.

(f)"Historic site" refers to a place recognized to have an important historical significance as declared by the NHCP.

(g)"Historical street name" refers to a street name which has been in existence for at least fifty (50) years.

(h)"History" refers to the record of people, places and events in the past; it can also mean the discipline involving the study of people, places and events in the past.

(i)"History museum" refers to a place where relics and memorabilia and other resources pertaining to important people, places and events in the past are thematically presented and systematically preserved, catalogued or displayed for public appreciation and education.

(j)"Historical research" refers to the scholarly investigation of people, places and events in the past.

(k)"Historical writing" refers to the coherent, narrative and scholarly documentation of people, places and events in the past.

(l)"National historical landmarks" refers to sites or structures which are associated with events or achievements significant to Philippine history declared as such by the NCHP.

(m)"National historical monuments" refers to structures erected as a memorial to great heroes or events in Philippine history declared as such by the NHCP.

(n)"National historical shrines" refers to sites or structures hallowed and revered for their history or association declared as such by the NHCP.

(o)"National registry of historic sites and structures" refers to the records of all historic sites and structures of the country as found in the documentation of the NHCP.

(p)"Philippine history" is the study of people, events and places from the dawn of the recorded past of the Philippines to contemporary period.

(q)"Preservation" refers to all activities that employ means to control, minimize or prevent damage or deterioration to cultural property.

(r)"Restoration" refers to the action taken or the technical intervention to correct deterioration and alterations and return cultural property to its original state or condition.