British Museum Act 1930
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1930 c. 46 |
| Year | 1930 |
British Museum Act, 1930
(20 & 21 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 46.
An Act to relieve the Principal Librarian of the British Museum of the care of the Natural History Departments of the Museum and from liability to enter into a bond for the due discharge of the duties of his office.
[1st August 1930]
B E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Transfer of responsibility in respect of Natural History Departments of the British Museum from the Principal Librarian to the Director of the Departments.
1. Section sixteen of the Act passed in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of George the Second, Chapter twenty-two, and entitled ‘An Act for the purchase of the Museum or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane and of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts and for providing one general repository for the better reception and more convenient use of the said collections, and of the Cottonian Library, and of the additions thereto,’ shall, so far as it requires the care and custody of the British Museum to be chiefly committed to the Principal Librarian, cease to have effect in relation to the Natural History Departments of the Museum and the care and custody of those Departments shall be committed to the Director of those Departments.
2 Relief of Principal Librarian of British Museum from liability to enter into bond under 26 Geo. 2. c. 22. s. 16.
2. The words ‘after he shall become bound to the said Trustees by this Act appointed for the due and faithful discharge of his office, in such penal sum, not being less than one thousand pounds, as the said Trustees at any general meeting assembled or the major part of them shall think proper’ in the said section sixteen are hereby repealed.
3 Short title and commencement.
(1) This Act may be cited as the British Museum Act, 1930 .
(2) This Act shall come into operation on the next...
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