(1)The Board shall take steps to acquire premises for the purpose of maintaining their collections therein and holding exhibitions therein of their collections, or so much of those collections as from time to time they think fit, being premises situate within [F1Greater London] and, so long as they are held by the Board, to be known as the Museum of London.
(2)Subject to the following provisions of this Act, it shall be the duty of the Board, as soon as practicable after they have acquired such premises as aforesaid, to keep the objects comprised in their collections in those premises, or, if those premises cease to be held by the Board, in other premises within [F2Greater London] held by them.
(3)Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this section is to be taken as precluding the Board from exhibiting any of the objects comprised in their collections at any place, wherever situate, other than such premises as are mentioned in the last foregoing subsection, or from removing any of those objects for any purpose, other than exhibition, connected with the administration of any such premises as are so mentioned or the care of their collections.
(4)Where it appears to the Board that any objects comprised in their collections cannot conveniently be kept within any such premises as are mentioned in subsection (2) above, they may store those objects at such other premises, wherever situate, as appear to the Board to be suitable.
[F3(5)The Board may make such charges as they may determine for admission to any such premises as are mentioned in subsection (2) above.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 4(1) substituted (15.7.2004) by Regulatory Reform (Museum of London) (Location of Premises) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1939), arts. 1, 2(2)
F2Words in s. 4(2) substituted (15.7.2004) by Regulatory Reform (Museum of London) (Location of Premises) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1939), arts. 1, 2(3)
F3S. 4(5) inserted by City of London (Various Powers) Act 1979 (c. xxiv), s. 18.