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TASMANIAN MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY BILL 2017 BILL 18 OF 2017

                                        FACT SHEET

                      Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Bill 2017

This legislation provides a modern governance system for the Tasmanian Museum and Art
Gallery (TMAG) to ensure that accountability and responsibility for the management and
operation of TMAG is clearly established.
The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Bill 2017 (the Bill) will enable the continuity of
TMAG to be retained with a new governance structure and greater clarity on the functions
of the Board. There would be very minimal change, if any, to the daily public operations
of TMAG arising from this Bill.
The core elements of the Bill are:

      It provides for the continuation of the Board of Trustees as a statutory authority
       that, as an instrumentality of the Crown, will be responsible for the strategic
       management of TMAG. The Board is to be accountable to the relevant Minister.

      A new skills-based Board will be established, comprising of at least 5 but no more
       than 7 members that will be appointed by the Minister.

      It establishes a number of objectives for the Tasmanian Museum and Gallery and
       provides an overarching framework that the Board will be required to have
       constant regard for in performing its duties.

      The Minister will be able to determine the strategic direction through a Ministerial
       Statement of Expectations and the Board will need to act in accordance with that
       statement. The Minister will be able to provide limited directions to the Board.

      The Trustees are provided with the function of stewardship of all of the artefacts,
       objects, specimens and records and other material that comprise the collection
       under the control and management of the Board.

      There is very limited scope for the Minister to intervene in the stewardship
       functions of the Board.

      The Bill establishes a set of corporate planning and reporting requirements to
       ensure that the objectives of TMAG and the strategic direction of the Minister are
       given effect to, and delivered by, the Board.

      The Bill contains savings and transitional provisions to ensure continuity between
       the current Board operating under the Tasmanian Museum Act 1950 and the new
       Board that will operate under this legislation. This Bill will repeal the Tasmanian
       Museum Act 1950.




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