Vol. VIJI. No. 93. 
IMPERIAL INSTITUTE JOURNAL. 
[September, 1902.] 
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IMPERIAL INSTITUTE (TRANSFER) ACT, 1902. 
AN 
ACT 
To provide for placing the Imperial Institute under the management of 
the Board of Trade, and for other purposes. 
[Royal Assent^ July 22nd, 1902.] 
W HEREAS by Royal Charter dated the twelfth day of May one thousand eight 
hundred and eighty-eight an association (hereinafter referred to as “ the existing 
Corporation ”) was incorporated by the name of ** The Imperial Institute of the 
United Kingdom, the Colonies, and India, and the Isles of the British Seas” for the purposes 
mentioned in the charter and set out in the First Schedule to this Act (hereinafter referred to 
as “ the purposes of the Imperial Institute ”) : 
And whereas the existing Corporation is governed under its charter (as amended by a 
supplemental charter dated the sixteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and 
ninety-four) and under a constitution (made in pursuance of the charter and approved by 
Royal Warrant dated the twenty-first day of April one thousand eight hundred and ninety- 
one) which by virtue of the charter has the same validity and effect as if the provisions thereof 
had been contained in the charter : 
And whereas the existing Corporation have in accordance with their charter established 
an Endowment Fund (in this Act referred to as “the Endowment Fund”) consisting of 
securities representing a sum of one hundred and forty thousand pounds and that endowment 
fund is in accordance with the charter vested in trustees and the existing Corporation are 
entitled to the income of the fund but are not entitled to the capital thereof : 
And whereas by the several leases described and numbered (1) (2) and (3) in the Second 
Schedule to this Act certain land at South Kensington was vested in the existing Corporation 
for the purpose of building the building known as the Imperial Institute for a term of nine 
hundred and ninety-nine years at the rents mentioned in the said Schedule : 
And whereas by the transfer described and numbered (4) in the said Schedule the 
existing Corporation with the approval of His Majesty’s Commissioners for the Exhibition of 
1S5 1 assigned their interest under the said leases to the Commissioners of Works and the 
Commissioners of Works by the sub-lease described and numbered (5) in the said Schedule 
demised to the existing Corporation free of rent for a term of nine hundred and eighty-seven 
years from the twenty-ninth day of September one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine 
a part (described in the said sub-lease) of the land and building at South Kensington comprised 
and referred to in the said leases and the part so demised is in this Act referred to as “ the 
Imperial Institute Building 
And whereas it has been arranged that the Imperial Institute building and all other 
property of the existing Corporation should be under the management of the Board of Trade 
and used by them so far as practicable for carrying out the purposes of the Imperial Institute 
and for such other similar purposes as the Board of Trade may determine having regard to 
the commercial and industrial interests of the Empire : 
And whereas it is expedient for that purpose that the existing Corporation should be 
dissolved and that such provisions should be made as in tliis Act appear in connection with the 
transfer of the property of the Corporation and for the benefit of the life members of the 
Corporation and for dealing specially with certain obligations of the Corporation : 
And whereas it is expedient that an advisory committee should be established for 
assisting the Board of Trade in carrying out their powers and duties under this Act : 
And whereas the objects of this Act cannot be attained without the authority of 
Parliament : 
MAY IT THEREFORE PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY 
That it may be Enacted and Be it Enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty by 
and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this 
present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows : — 
1 . — This Act may be cited as the Imperial Institute (Transfer) Act 1902. 
2 . — Subject to the provisions of this Act as to the Imperial Institute building and the 
Endowment Fund and other special matters all property real or personal of the existing 
Corporation and all rights or obligations of that Corporation and all debts or liabilities of 
that Corporation shall be transferred to and become the property rights obligations debLs or 
liabilities of the Board of Trade. 
3 . (1) The Imperial Institute building and all property transferred to the Board of Trade 
under this Act shall be used and the income of the endowment fund and all sums received 
by the Board of Trade in respect of the exercise of any their powers or duties under this Act 
shall be applied by the Board of Trade so far as practicable for carrying out the purposes of 
the Imperial Institute and for such other similar purposes as the Board of Trade may 
determine having regard to the commercial industrial and educational interests of the 
Empire. 
(2) The Board of Trade shall receive and hold any sums of money or other property 
given or entrusted to them for any purpose for which property transferred to them under 
this Act may be used and shall apply any such sums of money or property for the purpose 
for which they are so given or entrusted to them. 
4 , — (1) The Imperial Institute building and the Endowment Fund shall by virtue of 
this Act be transferred to and become vested in the Imperial Institute trustees appointed 
under this Act for the same estate and interest as that for which before the commencement 
of this Act they were vested in the existing Corporation or the endowment trustees appointed 
under the charter of that Corporation. 
(2) The income of the Endowment Fund shall be paid over by the Imperial Institute 
trustees to the Board of Trade, and the Imperial Institute building shall be under the 
management of the Board of Trade. 
5 . — The Board of Trade shall after consulting the advisory committee make provision 
in the Imperial Institute building either by the setting apart of certain rooms or otherwise as 
seems desirable for giving to the life members of the existing Corporation privileges similar 
as far as practicable to those enjoyed by them under the charter of the existing Corporation. 
6. — (1) Any obligation under any covenant on the part of the Imperial Institute with 
His Majesty’s Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 to appoint a member of the Com- 
mission as one of the trustees of the Endowment Fund or to deal with the Endowment Fund 
according to the purposes and limitations laid down in the charter of the Imperial Institute 
shall cease. 
(2) The transfer of the Imperial Institute building effected by this Act shall be deemed 
to have been made with the consent of the Commissioners of Works. 
(3) The Board of Trade shall give effect to the agreement dated the twenty-fourth day 
of January one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three and made between the Imperial 
Institute and the Northbrook Society having reference to the use by the Society of the 
Imperial Institute building and other matters connected therewith but the Board and the 
Society shall respectively have power to determine that agreement on giving six months’ 
notice to the other party and the determination of the agreement under that power shall have 
the same effect as the determination of the agreement under ihe powers contained for the 
purpose therein. 
7 . — The Board of Trade may take such steps make such arrangements and employ such 
persons as they think necessary or expedient for carrying out their duties under this Act. 
8. — ( I ) There shall be established for the purposes of this Act an advisory committee 
consisting of the persens named as the first committee in the first column of the First Part 
of the Third Schedule to this Act and of their successors in office. 
(2) The provisions of the Second Part of the Third Schedule to this Act shall apply 
with respect to the advisory committee. 
(3) His Majesty may by Order in Council if it appears expedient to do so with a 
view of securing the proper representation of the commercial and industrial interests of the 
Empire vary the constitution of the advisory committee and any such Order in Council shall 
as from the date of its publication or any later date mentioned in the Order take effect as if 
it were enacted by Parliament, 
9 . — (1) The persons who are for the time being the First Commissioner of His 
Majesty’s Treasury the Secretary of State for the Colonies the Secretary of State for India 
and the President of the Board of Trade shall be the Imperial Institute trustees for the 
purposes of this Act and shall be a body corporate by that name with perpetual 
succession and a common seal and with power to take purchase hold and dispose of lands 
and other property for the purposes of this Act. 
(2) The Imperial Institute trustees may invest any money constituting the capital of 
the Endowment Fund in any securities in which trustees may for the time being invest 
under the Trustee Act 1893 and the Acts amending that Act. 
(3) The Imperial Institute trustees may if required by the Board of Trade with the 
consent of the advisory committee sell or otherwise dispose of any real or personal estate 
held by them and apply any proceeds of sale for the purpose of carrying out tire objects of 
this Act in any manner for which capital is properly applicable and not otherwise. 
10 . — (1) As from the commencement of this Act the existing Corporation shall be 
dissolved and the Imperial Institute charter dated the twelfth day of May one thousand 
eight hundred and eighty-eight and the constitution made thereunder and the supple- 
mental charter dated the sixteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and ninety- 
four are hereby revoked. 
(2) The trustees of the Endowment Fund and the members of the governing body 
executive council and any committee of the existing Corporation are discharged from their 
duties under the charter and constitution and the transfer described and numbered (4) in 
the Second Schedule to this Act and any other act done by them in relation to the Institute 
are hereby confirmed. 
11 . — This Act shall except as expressly provided come into operation on the first 
day of January nineteen hundred and three or such other day not being six months later 
than that day as the Board of Trade may appoint and the Board of Trade may appoint 
different days for different purposes and different provisions of this Act. 
12 . Nothing in this Act contained affects any rights of the University of London in or 
to any part of the Imperial Institute building. 
13 . — (1) All costs charges and expenses of and incident to the preparing for obtaining 
and passing of this Act or otherwise in relation thereto shall be paid by the existing 
Corporation. 
(2) This section shall come into operation upon the passing of this Act. 
SCHEDULES, 
FIRST SCHEDULE. 
The Purposes of the Imperial Institute. 
(Extracted from the Royal Charter of the Imperial Institute). 
1. — The formation and exhibition of collections representing the important raw 
materials and manufactured products of Our Empire, and of other countries so maintained as 
to illustrate the development of agricultural, coifimercial and industrial progress in Our Empire, 
and the comparative advances made in other countries. 
2. — The establishment or promotion of commercial museums, sample rooms, and 
intelligence offices in London, and other parts of the Empire. 
3. — The collection and dissemination of such information relating to trades and industries, 
to emigration, and to the other purposes of this Our Charter as may be of use to the subjects 
of Our Empire, 
4. — The advancement of trades and handicrafts by exhibitions of special branches ol 
industry and commerce, and of the work of artisans and of apprentices. 
5. — The promotion of technical and commercial education, and of the industrial arts and 
sciences. 
6. — The furtherance of systematic colonisation. 
7. — The promotion of conferences and lectures in connection with the general work of 
the Institute, and the facilitating of commercial and friendly intercourse among the inhabitants 
of the different parts of the British Empire. 
8. — The doing anything incidental or conducive to carrying into effect all or any of the 
foregoing purposes. 
SECOND SCHEDULE. 
( Enumeration of Deeds referred to in the Act. ) 
THIRD SCHEDULE. 
PART I. 
Ady l sort Com m i ttee. 
First Committee. 
Mode in which any 
Vacancy in the Office 
is to be filled up. 
Sir Francis J. S. Ilopwood, K.C.B., C-M.G. 
Sir Alfred E. Bateman, K.C.M.G. ..... 
The Right Honourable Lord Avebury, F.R.S., D.C.L. 
The Right Honourable Sir Henry II. Fowler, G.C.S.I., M.P. 
The Right Honourable W. L. Jackson, M.P. 
Sir William II. Ilouldsworth, Bart., M.P 
Sir Cecil Clementi-Smith, G.C.M.G. ..... 
Sir Steuart Rayley, K.C.S. I. 
T. W. Idolderness, Esq., C.S.I. 
Thomas Henry Elliott, Esq., C.B. 
General Sir Owen Tudor Rurne, G.C.I.E., K. C.S.I. . 
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! _ Appointment by the 
Board of Trade. 
i Appointment by the 
Secretary of State 
( for the Colonies. 
( Appointment by the 
Secretary of State 
( for India. 
/ Appointment by the 
Board of Agricul- 
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i Appointment by the 
Government of 
t India. 
