Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The main object of this Act is to encourage lenders to lend objects for temporary public exhibition in Australia under arrangements involving certain institutions.
(2) This Act seeks to achieve that object by limiting the circumstances in which ownership or physical possession, custody or control of the objects in Australia can be affected by:
(a) legal proceedings; or
(b) the enforcement of a judgement or order of a court; or
(c) an action taken under a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; or
(d) the operation of such a law.