Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Where a person has
in his custody or under his control an object in relation to which a notice
was given by the Director, in accordance with the provisions of
section 20C of the Museum Act 1959 2 , or of section 42 of the
Museum Act 1969 , that the object in the opinion of the Director was
likely to be of national or local historical interest or of scientific,
archaeological, educational or other special national or local interest, that
person shall, if required by the Trustees, produce the object to them at such
reasonable time as is specified by them for inspection and possession by them
for the purposes of subsection (2).
(2) Where, after
inspecting any object produced pursuant to subsection (1), the Director
is of the opinion that it is of national or local historical interest or of
scientific, archaeological, educational or other special national or local
interest, the Trustees may continue in possession of the object for a period
of 30 days or for such longer period as the person producing it and the
Trustees may agree upon, for the purpose of photographing, copying, or
otherwise obtaining a record of, the object and investigating the extent of
any such interest that the object may have.
(3) At the expiration
of the period mentioned in subsection (2), the Trustees shall, unless
they and the person producing it otherwise agree, return the object to him.