National Museum of Australia Amendment Act 2001

No. 3, 2001

An Act to amend the National Museum of Australia Act 1980, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title...................................

2 Commencement...............................

3 Schedule(s)..................................

Schedule 1—Amendments

National Museum of Australia Act 1980

National Museum of Australia Amendment Act 2001

No. 3, 2001

An Act to amend the National Museum of Australia Act 1980, and for related purposes

[Assented to 20 March 2001]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act may be cited as the National Museum of Australia Amendment Act 2001.

2  Commencement

  This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3  Schedule(s)

  Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

National Museum of Australia Act 1980

1  After paragraph 6(1)(b)

Insert:

 (baa) to exhibit material, whether in written form or in any other form, that relates to Australia’s past, present and future;

2  Paragraph 6(1)(c)

Omit “and”.

3  At the end of subsection 6(1)

Add:

 ; and (e) to develop and implement sponsorship, marketing and other commercial activities relating to the Museum’s functions.

4  After paragraph 7(2)(j)

Insert:

 (ja) to charge such fees and impose such charges (in addition to the charges fixed by regulations) as are reasonable in respect of services rendered by the Museum;

 (jb) to raise money for the purposes of the Museum by appropriate means, having regard to the proper performance of the functions of the Museum;

5  Paragraph 9(4)(b)

Omit “$20,000”, substitute “$250,000”.

6  Paragraph 9A(3)(b)

Omit “$20,000”, substitute “$250,000”.

7  Paragraph 27(2)(e)

Omit “section 19”, substitute “section 27F or 27J of the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997”.

8  After section 33

Insert:

34  National Museum of Australia Fund

 (1) There is established by this section a fund by the name of the National Museum of Australia Fund.

 (2) Income received from the investment of money standing to the credit of the Fund forms part of the Fund.

 (3) These are to be paid into the Fund:

 (a) gifts and bequests of money that the Museum accepts after the commencement of this section (otherwise than on trust);

 (b) money that the Museum receives after that commencement (other than money to be held on trust by the Museum) from the disposal of property given, devised, bequeathed or assigned to the Museum (whether before, at or after that commencement);

 (c) so much of the money held by the Museum in bank accounts (otherwise than on trust) immediately before that commencement as the Minister determines by notice in writing given to the Museum within 21 days after that commencement.

 (4) The payment of money into a bank account maintained by the Museum in accordance with subsection 18(2) of the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997 under the name of the National Museum of Australia Fund is taken, for the purposes of subsection (3) of this section, to be a payment of the money into the Fund.