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 5: Composition of the Board.
    (1) The Board shall consist of the following persons, namely:--
         (a) the Governor of Andhra Pradesh, ex officio Chairman;
         (b) the Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry concerned with matters relating to the museum, ex officio;
         (c) the Mayor of the Corporation of Hyderabad, ex officio;
         (d) the Vice-Chancellor of the Osmania University, ex officio;
         (e) the Accountant-General, Andhra Pradesh, ex officio;
         (f) a person to be nominated by the Central Government, who shall be a member of the family of the late Nawab Salar Jung Bahadur who died on the 2nd day of March, 1949;
         (g) three persons to be nominated by the Central Government who shall as far as possible be persons having knowledge of, and experience in, matters relating to the administration of museums and libraries;
         (h) two persons to be nominated by the State Government.
     (2) Every nomination under this section shall take effect as soon as it is notified by the Central Government in the Official Gazette.
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