{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-libraries-and-museums-act-1964/section-12",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1964/75",
  "legislation_title": "Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-libraries-and-museums-act-1964",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Provision and maintenance of museums and galleries.",
  "text": "(1) A local authority may provide and maintain museums and art galleries within its administrative area or elsewhere in England or Wales, and may do all such things as may be necessary or expedient for or in connection with the provision or maintenance thereof:\n. . .\n(2) A local authority maintaining a museum or art gallery under this section may . . . enter into an agreement with any other local authority empowered to maintain it for the transfer of the museum or gallery and its collections to that authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 12(1) proviso repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 30"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 30"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1964/75/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:58:49.797320+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."
}