Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL GALLERY ACT 1975 - SECT 9

             (1)  Subject to subsection (4), where the Council is satisfied that a work of art in the national collection:

                     (a)  is unfit for the national collection; or

                     (b)  is not required as part of the national collection;

the Council may resolve that the work of art be disposed of by sale, gift or destruction.

             (4)  The Council shall not resolve that a work of art be disposed of by way of destruction unless the Council is satisfied that the work has no saleable value.

             (5)  Where:

                     (a)  the Council has resolved, in accordance with this section, that a work of art be disposed of; and

                     (b)  the Minister has approved of that disposal;

the Gallery may dispose of that work of art accordingly.