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
Read the documentation for the exhibition Angelica Kauffman
Read the documentation for the exhibition Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change
Read the documentation for the exhibition Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec