{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1985/section-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1985/section-46.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/51",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1985",
  "path": "section/46",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Metropolitan county museums.",
  "text": "(1) If it appears to the Secretary of State that any collection of works of art or of objects of historical or scientific interest belonging to a metropolitan county council is of such national importance that on the abolition date it should be vested in a body of trustees appointed by him and supported by moneys provided by Parliament he may make a recommendation to that effect to Her Majesty in Council and Her Majesty may then by Order in Council constitute such a body and make such further provision as appears to Her Majesty to be necessary or expedient for giving effect to the recommendation.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 46(1) substituted (3.7.1992) by S.I. 1992/1311, art. 12(2), Sch. 2 para. 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 46(2) omitted (3.7.1992) by virtue of S.I. 1992/1311, art. 12(2), Sch. 2 para. 7(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 46: certain functions transferred (3.7.1992) by S.I. 1992/1311, art. 3(1), Sch. 1, Pt.I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/51/section/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:00:02.601228+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."
}