{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-museum-act-1963/section-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-museum-act-1963/section-10.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1963/24",
  "legislation_title": "British Museum Act 1963",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-museum-act-1963",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Authorised repositories.",
  "text": "(1) The buildings for the time being occupying the sites described in Parts I and II of the Third Schedule to this Act shall be the authorised repositories for the collections of the British Museum and the Natural History Museum.\n(2) The Lord President of the Council may, with the agreement of the Trustees concerned, by order amend the said Schedule by adding a reference to a further site, or deleting the reference to the whole or any part of a site, or altering the description of a site: and any such order shall be made by statutory instrument, and shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.\n(3) A building or site vested in the Trustees of either Museum, being an authorised repository or the site of an authorised repository, shall not be sold or otherwise disposed of by them.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 10(1) substituted (1.9.1992) by Museums and Galleries Act 1992 (c. 44), s. 11(2), Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 1(3)(a); S.I. 1992/1874, art.2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 10(2) substituted (25.11.1998) by S.I. 1988/1836, art. 2(2)(b)(3), and certain words expressed to be substituted (1.9.1992) by Museums and Galleries Act 1992 (c. 44), s. 11(2), Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 2(1)(b)(2); S.I. 1992/1874, art.2."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Functions of the Secretary of State under s. 10(2) transferred (1.9.1992) to the Lord President of the Council by virtue of Museums and Galleries Act 1992 (c. 44), s. 11(2), Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 2(1)(2); S.I. 1992/1874, art.2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1963/24/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:00:38.646232+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}