SCHEDULES

Section 40.

SCHEDULE 5U.K. Minor and Consequential Amendments

National Gallery and Tate Gallery Act 1954 (c. 65)U.K.

1Section 4(2) of the National Gallery and Tate Gallery Act 1954 (restriction on certain loans or works of art by Trustees) shall cease to have effect.

2In Schedule 1 to that Act (institutions to which certain transfers may be made) the following entries shall be inserted in the appropriate places—

  • The Armouries

  • The British Library

  • The British Museum (Natural History).

Public Records Act 1958 (c. 51)U.K.

3U.K.In Part II of the Table in paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the Public Records Act 1958 (definition of public records) the following entries shall be inserted in the appropriate places—

  • Armouries

  • Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England

  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

  • Science Museum

  • Victoria and Albert Museum.

Charities Act 1960 (c. 58)U.K.

4In Schedule 2 to the Charities Act 1960 (which lists the institutions which so far as they are charities are exempt charities within the meaning of that Act) there shall be inserted after paragraph (c)—

“(ca)the Board of Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum;

(cb)the Board of Trustees of the Science Museum;

(cc)the Board of Trustees of the Armouries;

(cd)the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.”

British Museum Act 1963 (c. 24)U.K.

5At the end of section 9(1) of the British Museum Act 1963 (power of trustees to transfer pictures to certain institutions) there shall be added “or to the National Gallery Trustees or to the Tate Gallery Trustees".

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Textual Amendments

British Library Act 1972 (c. 54)U.K.

7At the end of section 3(4) of the British Library Act 1972 there shall be inserted—

“This subsection does not apply to pictures (as to which there is a power of transfer in section 9 of the British Museum Act 1963).”