Salar Jung Museum Act, 1961
No: 26 Dated: May, 19 1961
THE SALAR JUNG MUSEUM ACT, 1961
ACT NO. 26 OF 1961
An Act to declare the Salar Jung Museum together with the Salar Jung Library at Hyderabad to be an institution of national importance and to provide for its administration and certain other connected matters.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twelfth Year of the Republic of India as follows:―
CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY
1. Short title and commencement.―(1) This Act may be called the Salar Jung Museum Act, 1961.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Declaration of Salar Jung Museum together with Salar Jung Library as an institution of national importance.―It is hereby declared that the Salar Jung Museum together with the Salar Jung Library at Hyderabad in the State of Andhra Pradesh is an institution of national importance
3. Definitions.―In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,―
(a) “Board” means the Board established under section 4;
(b) “Chairman” means the Chairman of the Board;
(c) “Fund” means the fund referred to in section 19;
(d) “member” means a member of the Board and includes the Chairman;
(e) “museum” means the Salar Jung Museum together with the Salar Jung Library, declared to be an institution of national importance under this Act;
(f) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(g) “State Government” means the Government of Andhra Pradesh.
CHAPTER II
SALAR JUNG MUSEUM BOARD
4. Establishment and incorporation of the Board.―(1) With effect from such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, there shall be established for the purposes of this Act a Board to be known as the Salar Jung Museum Board.
(2) The Board shall be a body corporate with the name aforesaid, having perpetual succession and a common seal with power, subject to the provisions of this Act, to acquire, hold and dispose of property and to contract, and may by that name sue and be sued.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2), the Board shall not, except with the previous approval of the Central Government, sell or otherwise dispose of any article or thing specified in Part I or Part II of the Schedule.
5. Composition of the Board.―(1) The Board shall consist of the following persons, namely:―
(a) the Governor of Andhra Pradesh, ex officio Chairman;
(b) the Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry concerned with matters relating to the museum, ex officio;
(c) the Mayor of the Corporation of Hyderabad, ex officio;
(d) the Vice-Chancellor of the Osmania University, ex officio;
(e) the Accountant-General, Andhra Pradesh, ex officio;
(f) a person to be nominated by the Central Government, who shall be a member of the family of the late Nawab Salar Jung Bahadur who died on the 2nd day of March, 1949;
(g) three persons to be nominated by the Central Government who shall as far as possible be persons having knowledge of, and experience in, matters relating to the administration of museums and libraries;
(h) two persons to be nominated by the State Government.
(2) Every nomination under this section shall take effect as soon as it is notified by the Central Government in the Official Gazette