Commonwealth Institute Act 1958
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1958 c. 16 |
| Year | 1958 |
Commonwealth Institute Act, 1958, 1958
(6 & 7 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 16
An Act to amend the law with respect to the Imperial Institute.
Be it enacted by the Queen'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 The Commonwealth Institute, and the Trustees.
(1) The organisation which exists by virtue of the Imperial Institute Act, 1925 (in this Act referred to as ‘the principal Act’) shall be known as the Commonwealth Institute.
(2) The body which was constituted by subsection (1) of section nine of the Imperial Institute (Transfer) Act, 1902 , under the name of the Imperial Institute Trustees and re-constituted by subsection (1) of section two of the principal Act, shall subsist under the name of the Commonwealth Institute Trustees and is in this Act referred to as ‘the Trustees’.
2 Change of membership in Trustees, and consequential provisions.
(1) As from the passing of this Act, the persons who constitute the Trustees shall, in lieu of being those specified in subsection (1) of section two of the principal Act, be the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Minister of Education and three persons appointed by that Minister.
(2) The Minister of Education shall be the responsible Minister for the purposes of the principal Act.
(3) Such of the persons constituting the Trustees as, on the passing of this Act, hold office by virtue of appointment under the said subsection (1) shall be deemed to have been appointed under this section.
(4) The Trustees shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and power to hold land without licence in mortmain.
3 Provisions as to new building.
3. Whereas by a lease dated the ninth day of January, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight (hereafter in this Act referred to as ‘the lease’) the Right Honourable Giles Stephen Holland, Earl of Ilchester, demised to the Minister of Works certain land in the Royal Borough of Kensington (which is more particularly described in the First Schedule to this Act) for a term of nine hundred and ninety-nine years from the first day of August, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven, in consideration of the payment of a premium of two hundred and fifteen thousand pounds and the reservation of a rent of ten pounds a year:
And whereas the grant to the said Minister was made, in the contemplation of the parties to the lease, with a view to the transfer by this Act from that Minister to the Trustees of his interest in the premises demised by the lease, to the intent that the Trustees should erect thereon a building (in this section referred to as ‘the new building’) in substitution for the Imperial Institute Building, and accordingly by the lease that Minister covenanted to erect such a building:
Now, therefore:—
(1) on the passing of this Act, the premises demised by the lease shall vest in the Trustees for the unexpired residue of the term created thereby and thereupon the Minister of Works shall stand discharged from all obligations imposed on him by or by virtue of the lease;
(2) the new building shall be erected in accordance with plans and specifications approved by the Minister of Education and have floor space of an area of approximately one hundred and twenty-five thousand square feet;
(3) the premises demised by the lease (including the new building and any building erected in substitution therefor) shall be under the management of the Minister of Education.
4 Surrender of Trustees' interest in Imperial Institute Building.
4. The Trustees shall, at such times as the Minister of Education requires, surrender to the Minister of Works their interest in such portions of the Imperial Institute Building as are specified in the requisition, and accordingly references in the principal Act to that building shall be construed as references to as much thereof as the Trustees have for the time being an interest in.
5 Power of lending and disposing of objects.
(1) The Minister of Education may—
(a ) lend for public exhibition in the United Kingdom or elsewhere any object...
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