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10 Indemnities

(1) In section 16 of the [1980 c. 17.] National Heritage Act 1980, in subsection (1) (Minister’s power to indemnify institutions, bodies or persons falling within subsection (2) against loss of or damage to objects lent by them to other institutions, bodies or persons falling within that subsection)—

(a) the words “falling within subsection (2) below” shall cease to have effect; and

(b) for the words “falling within that subsection” there shall be substituted the words “which falls within subsection (2) below”;

and, in subsection (2), for the words “referred to above” there shall be substituted the words “which fall within this subsection”.

(2) After that section there shall be inserted—

“16A Reporting of indemnities given under section 16

(1) For each of the successive periods of six months ending with 31st March and 30th September in each year, each of the Ministers shall prepare a report specifying—

(a) the number of undertakings given by him under section 16 above during that period; and

(b) the amount or value, expressed in sterling, of any contingent liabilities as at the end of that period in respect of such of the undertakings given by him under that section at any time as remain outstanding at the end of that period.

(2) A report under subsection (1) above shall be laid before Parliament not later than two months after the end of the period to which it relates.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) above shall apply in relation to undertakings given under section 16 above by the Department of Education for Northern Ireland—

(a) with the substitution for references to each of the Ministers of references to that Department; and

(b) with the substitution for the reference to Parliament in subsection (2) of a reference to the Northern Ireland Assembly.”

Supplementary provisions

11 Short title, minor and supplemental provisions, commencement and extent

(1) This Act may be cited as the Museums and Galleries Act 1992.

(2) Schedule 8 to this Act, which contains minor and consequential provisions, shall have effect.

(3) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 9 to this Act, which include some that are spent or of no further utility, are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

(4) The provisions of this Act shall come into force on such day as the Lord President of the Council may by order made by statutory instrument appoint, and different days may be appointed for different provisions or for different purposes.

(5) The provisions of this Act which extend to Scotland are sections 6, 7, 8 and 10 above, this section, Schedules 5 and 6 and so much of Schedules 8 and 9 to this Act as relates to enactments extending there.

(6) The provisions of this Act which extend to Northern Ireland are sections 6, 7 and 10 above, this section, Schedule 5 and so much of Schedules 8 and 9 to this Act as relates to enactments extending there.

(7) In Schedules 5, 6 and 7 to this Act—

(a) any reference to any of the new Boards shall, as respects any time before the vesting day for that new Board, within the meaning of section 1 above, be construed as a reference to the new Board’s predecessor Trustees, within the meaning of that section; and

(b) any reference to the Natural History Museum or to the Trustees of the Natural History Museum shall, as respects any time before the coming into force of paragraph 1 of Schedule 8 to this Act, be construed respectively as references to the British Museum (Natural History) or to the Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History).