Section 16
Powers of the Board.
The Salar Jung Museum Act, 1961
About this Act
An Act to declare the Salar Jung Museum together with the Salar Jung Library at Hyderabad to be an institution of national importance and to provide for its administration and certain other connected matters.
(1) Subject to such conditions and restrictions as the Central Government
may think fit to impose, the Board may exercise all such powers as may be necessary or expedient for the
purpose of carrying out its duties under this Act.
(2) Subject to such regulations as may be made by the Board in this behalf, the Board may, from time to time,--
(a) purchase or otherwise acquire such articles or things as may, in the opinion of the Board, be worthy of preservation in the museum; or
(b) exchange, sell, or destroy any such article or thing as is purchased or acquired under clause (a); or
(c) lend within India any article or thing specified in Part I or Part II of the Schedule, or lend, whether within or without India, any such article or thing as is purchased or acquired under clause (a).
(2) Subject to such regulations as may be made by the Board in this behalf, the Board may, from time to time,--
(a) purchase or otherwise acquire such articles or things as may, in the opinion of the Board, be worthy of preservation in the museum; or
(b) exchange, sell, or destroy any such article or thing as is purchased or acquired under clause (a); or
(c) lend within India any article or thing specified in Part I or Part II of the Schedule, or lend, whether within or without India, any such article or thing as is purchased or acquired under clause (a).