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NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA ACT 1980 - SECT 8

Land and historical material for Museum

  (1)   The Minister may make available to the Museum for the purposes of the Museum such land owned or held under lease by the Commonwealth as is specified by the Minister by notice in the Gazette and any building, structure or other improvements on that land.

  (2)   Where the Council so requests, the Minister may:

  (a)   transfer or cause to be transferred to the Museum, for inclusion in the national historical collection, historical material owned by the Commonwealth; and

  (b)   transfer or cause to be transferred to the Museum such other goods or equipment owned by the Commonwealth as he or she considers would be of use to the Museum.

  (3)   The Minister shall transfer or cause to be transferred to the Museum, for inclusion in the national historical collection, the specimens and animals that are the property of the Commonwealth by virtue of:

  (a)   the agreement a copy of which was set forth in the Schedule to the Zoological Museum Agreement Act 1924 ; or

  (b)   the agreement specified in paragraph   ( a) as varied by the agreement a copy of which was set forth in the Schedule to the Australian Institute of Anatomy Agreement Act 1931 .



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