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Section 5 Powers to transfer works of art from Tate Gallery for display elsewhere.C1

United Kingdom

(1)

The Tate Gallery Trustees shall have power to transfer a picture or other work of art vested in them to any institution listed in the First Schedule to this Act.

(2)

In the case of a picture or other work of art which has been given or bequeathed, the powers conferred by this section shall not be exercisable in any manner inconsistent with the gift or bequest unless, in the case of a gift, the donor has consented to the exercise of those powers in that manner; and where a picture or other work of art transferred under this section was subject to any trust or condition in the hands of the Tate Gallery Trustees, it shall be subject to the like trust or condition in the hands of the transferees.

(3)

The reference in this section to an institution listed in the First Schedule to this Act includes a reference to any institution added to that Schedule under section three of this Act.

Annotations

Modifications

C1

S. 5 extended by Museum of London Act 1965 (c. 17), s. 7(2)(b)

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1

Act repealed (1.9.1992) by Museum and Galleries Act 1992 (c. 44), s. 11(3), Sch. 9; S.I. 1992/1874, art.2