Malaysia legislation
Section 30
Section 30
(2)
The Board may establish and maintain such branch or branches of the National Visual Arts Gallery at such place or places in Malaysia as the Board may consider desirable for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act.
(3)
All national visual arts collection shall be kept in the
Gallery.
(4)
The Gallery may, on behalf of the Board—
(a)
exhibit, promote or make available for exhibition, works of visual arts from the national visual arts collection or by others;
(b)
provide information on visual arts;
(c)
develop and maintain a national collection of works of visual arts;
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(d)
provide advice on preservation of visual arts;
(e)
arrange for or assist in research into matters pertaining to visual arts;
(f)
sell or exchange any such work of visual arts, or exhibit personal visual arts collection under the care or control of the Board;
(g)
establish and maintain facilities for the purchase by the public of books, papers, prints, postcards, reproductions, replicas, promotional materials and other articles in connection with works of visual arts at the Gallery.
Disposal of works of visual arts from the Gallery