1902: 2 Edward 7 c.12: An Act to enable the Trustees of the British Museum to remove certain newspapers and other printed matter from the present British Museum Buildings.

[22nd July 1902.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to provide space elsewhere than at the present British Museum Buildings for the storage of newspapers and other printed matter which are rarely required for public use:

And whereas land has been acquired at Hendon, in the county of Middlesex, and a building (herein-after referred to as “the Hendon building”) is to be erected thereon for the purpose of providing the necessary storage space:

Be it therefore 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:

[Power to remove certain newspapers and other printed matter and store them at the Hendon building.]

1. The Trustees of the British Museum may, with the consent of the Treasury, remove to the Hendon building and store there any newspapers and other printed matter which appear to them to be rarely required for public use, but the Trustees shall make arrangements, to the satisfaction of the Treasury, for making any newspapers and printed matter so removed available for use by the public at the present British Museum buildings, when required, on due notice being given.

[Short title.]

2. This Act may be cited as the British Museum Act, 1902.

Source: Law Reports Public General Statutes vol. 40, 1903.

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