5 Power of lending and disposing of objects.

1

F2The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs may—

a

lend for public exhibition in the United Kingdom or elsewhere any object comprised in the collections maintained for the purposes of the Commonwealth Institute;

b

sell, or otherwise dispose of, any such object as aforesaid which appears to him to have become useless for the purposes aforesaid.

2

The said F2Secretary of State may, if requested so to do by the Government of any part of the Commonwealth outside the United Kingdom, sell or give to it for exhibition in that part of the Commonwealth any such object as aforesaid, if he is of opinion that it is more appropriate for it to be exhibited there than in the United Kingdom.

3

Any sums received by the said F2Secretary of State in consequence of an exercise of the powers conferred on him by this section shall be paid into the Exchequer.