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Commonwealth Institute Act 1958

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5Power of lending and disposing of objects

(1)The Minister of Education 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 Minister 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 Minister in consequence of an exercise of the powers conferred on him by this section shall be paid into the Exchequer.

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