Amend the British Museum Act 1963 to allow repatriation requests from trustees

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Amend the British Museum Act 1963 to allow repatriation requests from trustees

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We want the Government to amend the Act to allow the Trustees of the British Museum to approve requests for the return of artefacts on a permanent basis. Currently, British Museum Act 1963 prohibits the return of artifacts to their rightful owners

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Museums are facing calls to return artefacts to their places of origin. Section 3 of the British Museum Act states that the Trustees of the British Museum shall not dispose of objects vested in them except for exceptional circumstances - "Trustees do not have the power to sell, exchange, give away or dispose of any object vested in them and comprised in the Collection unless object is a duplicate of another object held in the Collection, object is unfit or useless for the purposes of the Museum"

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