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1998-1999-2000
The Parliament
of the
Commonwealth of
Australia
THE
SENATE
Presented and read a first
time
National
Museum of Australia Amendment Bill 2000
No.
, 2000
(Communications, Information Technology and the
Arts)
A Bill for an Act to amend the
National Museum of Australia Act 1980, and for related
purposes
ISBN: 0642 464111
Contents
National Museum of Australia Act
1980 3
A Bill for an Act to amend the National Museum of
Australia Act 1980, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the National Museum of Australia Amendment
Act 2000.
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal
Assent.
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any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.
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”.
Omit “section 19”, substitute “sections 27F to
27J of the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act
1997”.
8 After section 33
Insert:
(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.