THE INDIAN MUSEUM ACT, 1910 [Act, No. 10 of 1910] [AS ON 1956] [18th March, 1910] PREAMBLE An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Indian Museum. WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Indian Museum; It is hereby enacted as follows--
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section(1) The powers of the said body corporate may only be exercised so long and so often as there are1[six members] thereof. (2) The quorum necessary for the transaction of business at meeting of the Trustees shall not be less than1[four]. ________________________ 1. Substituted for figures 'nine' and 'six' respectively by the Indian Museum (Amendment) Act 1960, w.e.f. 30-11-1960.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIf a nominated Trustee-- (a) dies, or (b) is absent from the meetings of the Trustees for more than twelve consecutive months, or (c) desires to be discharged, or (d) refuses or becomes incapable to act, or (e) is appointed to perform the duties of any office specified in1[clauses (a) to (e) of subsection (1) of section (2).] the authority which nominated the Trustee may nominate a new Trustee in his place. ________________________ 1. Substituted for "any office specified in section 2,, clause (a)" by the Indian Museum (Amendment ) Act 1960 w.e.f. 30-11-1960.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section[***] Repealed by the Indian Museum (Amendment) Act 1960.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section(1) All the property, whether movable or immovable, which at the commencement of this Act is held by the Trustees of the Indian Museum constituted by the {Rep.by this Act,section17.} [Indian Museum Act, 1876 (22 of 1876), on trust for the purposes of the said Museum shall, together with any such property which may hereinafter be given bequeathed, transferred or acquired for the said purposes, in the Trustees of the Indian Museum constituted by this Act on trust for the purposes of the said Museum: Provided that the Trustees may expend the capital of any portion of such property which may consist of money on the maintenance; improvement and enlargement of the collections deposited in, presented to or purchased for, the said Museum or otherwise for the purposes of the same as they may think fit (2) The Trustees shall have the exclusive possession, occupation and control, for the purposes of such trust, of the land specified in the schedule including any buildings which may have been, or may hereafter be, erected thereon, other than those portions thereof which have been set apart by the Trustees for the records and offices of the Geological Survey of India.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionSubject to the provisions of any bye-laws made in this behalf, the Trustees may, from time to time,-- (a) deliver, by way of loan, to any person the whole or any portion of, or any article contained in, any collection vested in them under this Act; (b) exchange or sell duplicates of articles contained in any such collection and take or purchase, in the place of such duplicates, such articles as may in their opinion be worthy of preservation in the Museum; (c) present duplicates of articles contained in any such collection to other Museums in {Substituted by the A.O.1950 for " the Provinces ".} [India]; and (d) remove and destroy any article contained in any such collection.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section(1) The Trustees shall cause every article in the collections in the said Indian Museum formerly belonging to the Asiatic Society of Bengal1[now known as the Asiatic Society, Calcutta] and all additions that may hereafter be made thereto otherwise than by purchase under section 6, to be marked and numbered and (subject to the provisions contained in sections 7 and 16) to be kept and preserved in the said Museum with such marks and numbers. (2) An inventory of such additions shall be made by the said Society, one copy whereof shall be signed by the Trustees and delivered to the said Society, and another copy shall be signed by the Council of the said Society and delivered to the Trustees, and shall be kept by them along with the inventory delivered to the predecessors in office of the Trustees when the said collections were deposited in the said Museum. ________________________ 1. Inserted by the Indian Meusum (Amendment) Act 1960 w.e.f. 30-11-1960.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionAll objects taken in exchange and articles purchased under section 7 and all moneys realised from sales made in accordance with the terms of the same section shall be held on trust and subject to powers and declarations corresponding as nearly as may be with the, trusts, powers and declarations by this Act limited and declared.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIf the trust constituted by this Act is at any time determined,-- (a) the collections and additions mentioned in section 11 shall become the property of the said Asiatic Society or their assigns, and (b) all the other collections then in the said Indian Museum shall, save as otherwise provided by section 14, become the property of Government.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionRepealed by the Amending Act, 1914 (10 of 1914), section 3 and Schedule II.
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