British Museum Act

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British Museum Act is a stock short title used in the United Kingdom for legislation relating to the British Museum.

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British Museum (Purchase of Land) Act 1894

British Museum (Purchase of Land) Act 1894
Act of Parliament
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Long title An Act to provide for the purchase of certain Lands belonging to the Duke of Bedford by the Trustees of the British Museum.
Citation 57 & 58 Vict. c. 34
Dates
Royal assent 17 August 1894

British Museum (No. 2) Act 1824

The British Museum (No. 2) Act 1824 (5 Geo. 4. c. 60) was repealed by section 13(5) of, and the fourth schedule to, the British Museum Act 1963. The long title is "An Act to carry into Effect the Will of Richard Payne Knight Esquire, so far as the same relates to a Bequest by the said Richard Payne Knight of a Collection of Coins, Medals and other valuable Articles, to the British Museum; and to vest the said Collection in the Trustees of the said British Museum, for the Use of the Public." [a] "

British Museum (Purchase of Land) Act 1894

The British Museum (Purchase of Land) Act 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 34) enabled the trustees of the British Museum to purchase 69 houses surrounding the museum from the Bedford Estate so that they could be demolished, and the museum buildings expanded to the west, north and east sides of the existing museum.

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Notes

  1. These words are printed against this act in the second column of second schedule to the Statute Law Revision Act 1948, which is headed "Title".

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