Act Number: 26

Act Name: The Salar Jung Museum Act, 1961

Year: 1961

Enactment Date: 1961-05-19

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Culture

Department:

Section 4: Establishment and incorporation of the Board.
    (1) With effect from such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, there shall be established for the purposes of this Act a Board to be known as the Salar Jung Museum Board.
     (2) The Board shall be a body corporate with the name aforesaid, having perpetual succession and a common seal with power, subject to the provisions of this Act, to acquire, hold and dispose of property and to contract, and may by that name sue and be sued.
     (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2), the Board shall not, except with the previous approval of the Central Government, sell or otherwise dispose of any article or thing specified in Part I or Part II of the Schedule.
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