Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Bill [Lords]

Part of Orders of the Day – in the House of Commons at 6:03 pm on 5 March 2007.

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Photo of Mark Fisher Mark Fisher Labour, Stoke-on-Trent Central 6:03, 5 March 2007

Absolutely. Once immunity, and therefore protection from a suit—brought by somebody who believed that they had a better claim to ownership of the work—had been gained, while the immunity was in force and the object was in the country under an immune order, it could be taken off to Sotheby's or Christie's and sold. That is not satisfactory, and I am sure it is not what the Government intend.