HC Deb 31 October 1962 vol 666 cc143-4

Bill 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, presented by Mr. Boyd-Carpenter; supported by the Prime Minister, Mr. Rippon, Mr. Attorney-General, Mr. du Cann, and Mr. Denzil Freeth; read the First time; to be read a Second time tomorrow and to be printed. [Bill 2.]