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Immunity from Seizure

Part 6 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 provides immunity from seizure for cultural objects which are loaned from overseas to temporary public exhibitions in approved museums or galleries in the UK where conditions are met when the object enters the UK.

The conditions are:

  • The object is usually kept outside the UK
  • The object is not owned by a person who is resident in UK
  • The import of the object does not contravene any law
  • The object is brought into UK for purpose of a temporary public exhibition at an approved museum or gallery
  • The museum or gallery has published information about the object

Click here to read the documentation for the exhibition 'Miró, Calder, Giacometti, Braque: Aimé Maeght and His Artists'

Click here to read the documentation for the exhibition 'Byzantium 330-1453'

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Model of the church of the Redentore, Venice, 1972. Lime and beechwood with bisque details, 152 x 241 x 87 cm Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, Vicenza. Photo Alberto Carolo

Malcolm McLaren, Still from ‘Shallow', 2008. Courtesy Aurel Scheibler, Berlin. Copyright Malcolm McLaren

The Antioch Chalice, Byzantine, from Syria, possibly Kaper Koraon or Antioch, first half of the sixth century. Silver cup set in footed silver-gilt shell, Height 19. 7 cm. Lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Cloisters Collection, 1950 (50.4). Photo © The Metropolitan Museum of Art