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Leighton House

Immunity from Seizure

   

Painting Display in the Silk Room, Leighton House.

 

Leighton House is able to provide immunity from seizure under part 6 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007. This Act provides protection from seizure for cultural objects from abroad on loan to temporary exhibitions in approved museums and galleries in the UK. 


The conditions are: 


•    The object is usually kept outside the UK
•    It is not owned by a person resident in the UK
•    Its import does not contravene a prohibition or restriction on the import of goods, imposed by or under any enactment, that applies to the object, a part of it or anything it conceals
•    It is brought to the UK for public display in a temporary exhibition at a museum or gallery
•    The borrowing museum or gallery is approved under the Act
•    The borrowing museum has published information about the object

 

Exhibitions

Current reports listed below: