Section 3B. Power of Board to lend, exchange, sell or destroy articles in collections.

Subject to the provisions of any rules made by the 1[2[State] Government] in this behalf the Board may, from time to time,- (a) deliver by way of loan to any person the whole or any portion of or any article contained in, any collection vested in articles in them under this Act; (b) exchange or sell articles contained in any such collection and take or purchase, in the place of such articles, such articles as may in their opinion be worthy of preservation in the Museum; (c) present articles contained in any such collection to other Museums in India or elsewhere and (d) remove and destroy any article contained in any such collection: Provided that nothing herein contained shall authorise the Trustees to lend, exchange, sell, present, remove or destroy any article when such lending, exchange, sale, presentation, removal or destruction, as the case may be, is precluded by the terms on which the Trustees may have received any such article.