Museum Trust Act 1987 (NI)

NORFOLK ISLAND

MUSEUM TRUST ACT 1987

[Consolidated as at 15 May 2013 on the authority of the Administrator and in accordance with the Enactments Reprinting Act 1980]

________

TABLE OF PROVISIONS 1. Short title 2. Commencement 3. Interpretation 4. Establishment of Museum Trust 5. Composition of Trust and appointment of trustees 6. Function of Trust 7. Powers of Trust 8. Financial powers of Trust 9. Trust to keep records and accounts 10. Meetings of Trust 11. Resignation of trustees 12. Termination of appointment of trustees 13. Directions by Minister 14. Audit 15. Liability of trustee 16. Vacancy in office of trustee 17. Application of Public Moneys Act 18. Application of Trustee Act 19. Regulations 20. Transitional

NORFOLK ISLAND

Museum Trust Act 1987 _______________________________________________________________________

An Act to establish a Trust for the acquisition, preservation and display of Norfolk Island's heritage of movable cultural objects, and for related purposes.

WHEREAS in 1974 a draft was prepared of a proposed Act to establish a body to be known as the Norfolk Island Public Museum Trust; AND WHEREAS pending the making of the proposed Act His Honour the Administrator informally established a body known as the Interim Museum Trust to give effect, so far as practicable, to the provisions of the proposed Act; AND WHEREAS the proposed Act was not made and it is now expedient to make provision by enactment for the acquisition, preservation and display of Norfolk Island's heritage of movable cultural objects;

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Legislative Assembly of Norfolk Island as follows —

Short title 1. This Act may be cited as the Museum Trust Act 1987. Commencement 2. This Act shall come into operation on a date fixed by the Administrator by notice published in the Gazette. Interpretation 3. (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears — "Chairman" means the Chairman of the Trust appointed under subsection 5(4); "financial year" means the period commencing on 1 July in a year and ending at the expiration of the following 30 June; "Trust" means the Norfolk Island Museum Trust established by section 4; "trustee" means a person appointed under subsection 5(1) to be a member of the Trust, and includes the Chairman. (2) A reference in this Act to a heritage object is a reference to a movable object that is of cultural significance to Norfolk Island for ethnological, archaeological, historical, literary, artistic, scientific or technological reasons.