HC Deb 20 December 1962 vol 669 c1548

[Queen's Recommendation signified]

Considered in Committee under Standing Order No. 84 (Money Committees).

[Sir ROBERT GRIMSTON in the Chair]

Resolved, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to alter the composition of the Trustees of the British Museum, to provide for the separation from the British Museum of the British Museum (Natural History), to make new provision with respect to the regulation of the two Museums and their collections in place of that made by the British Museum Act, 1753 and enactments amending or supplementing that Act, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid, it is expedient to authorize—

  1. (a) any increase in expenditure out of moneys provided by Parliament which is attributable to the provisions of the said Act of the present Session enabling objects comprised in the collections of the British Museum or the British Museum (Natural History) to be kept in premises additional to those in which they were required to be kept immediately before the commencement of the Act;
  2. (b) the payment into the Exchequer of the net proceeds of any sale or other disposition of the property regulated by the British Museum (Purchase of Land) Act, 1894.—[Mr. Boyd-Carpenter.]

Resolution to be reported.

Report to be received Tomorrow.