Overview
7.Where two conditions are met the Act gives the governing bodies of the national institutions named in the Act a power to transfer an object from their collection and return it to the person who claims it. The first condition is that the Advisory Panel recommends that the object should be returned to the claimant. The second condition is that the Secretary of State approves the Panel’s recommendation. Scottish Ministers must give their consent before the Secretary of State can approve a recommendation that relates to an object in the collection of one of the Scottish bodies specified in the Act. The Act will expire on the tenth anniversary of the day on which it received Royal Assent.