Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08
5. Notaithstanding anything in the Indian Mu- Power to Trustees to
seum Act, 1876,- 5 k e e ~
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- (a) the Trustees of the Indian Museum, if they belongillg think fit, may, with the previous sanc- to them. - tion of the Governor General in Council, and subject in each case to such conditions as he may approve and to such rules as he may prescribe, assume the custody a114 administration of collections which are not tile property of the Trustees for the purposes of their trusts in that Act mentioned, and keep and preserve the collections either in the Indian Museum or elsewhere ; aud -
- (6) in the event of the trust constituted by that Act being determined, collections of which the Trustees have assumed the custody and administration under tlie foregoing part of this section shall not by reason of their then being in the Indian Museuin become the property of the Government of India.
And whereas it is provided in the Indian Museum ~ c t , 1876, that the Trustees of the Indian Museum shall have the exclusive possession, occupation and control, for the purposes of their trusts in that Act mentioned, of the wl~ole of the building called the Indian Museum, except certain portions thereof set apart for other purposes ; and whereas the Trustees are by virtue of that provision in possessioil of the property described in tlie schedule to this Act; I t is hereby enacted as follows :-
hereby enacted as follows :- `6.` The Trustees may, with the previous sanction ;;z;$~ of the Governor Geilcral in Couiicil, and subject to part ,vith such conclitioils as lie may approve, deliver possession certaill pro.
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Source: India Code