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Provided that before a draft of any such Order is submitted to His Majesty in Council it shall be laid before each House of Parliament for a period of not less than twenty-one days during the session of Parliament. 9. Nothing in this Act or in any such Order in Council shall affect —■ (1.) Any existing rights of the University of London in or to any part of the Imperial Institute Building; (2.) Any provision which may have been made in pursuance of section five of the Act of 1902 for giving to life members of the corporation dissolved by that Act privileges similar to those enjoyed by them under the Charter revoked by that Act. 10. (1.) This Act may be cited as the Imperial Institute Act, 1925. (2.) This Act shall come into operation on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and twentyfive, or such day as His Majesty in Council may, by Order, appoint, and different days may be appointed for different purposes and different provisions of this Act. (3.) For the purposes of this Act the expression " self-governing Dominions" means the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State, and Newfoundland. SCHEDULES. First Schedule. Purposes of the Imperial Institute. 1. To promote the commercial, industrial, and educational interests of the British Empire. 2. To collect and disseminate— (a.) Information relating to possible uses of and markets for new raw materials or semimanufactured products ; (b.) Information relating to new uses of and markets for already known raw materials or semi-manuiactured products ; (c.) Information relating to sources, production, supplies, cost, consumption, and requirements of raw materials and semi-manufactured products, and legislation relating thereto ; (d.) Information relating to the best means of increasing supplies or of creating new sources of supplies of such materials and products within the Empire; (e.) Information relating to the best means of treating such materials and products and of preparing them for marketing; (/.) Technical and scientific information bearing upon the industries of the British Empire. 3. To advise on the development of the resources of the Empire in raw materials in order that such resources may be made available for the purposes of industry and commerce and of Imperial defence. 4. To conduct in the laboratories of the Institute preliminary investigations of raw materials, and, when it may be deemed advisable to arrange for more detailed investigation by appropriate scientific or technical institutions. 5. To collect samples of raw materials having a definite value in industry and commerce. 6. To co-operate with other agencies within the Empire formed for similar purposes. 7. To maintain for public information and instruction in the Exhibition Galleries of the Imperial Institute exhibitions illustrative of the resources and development of the Empire, and of its scenery, life, and progress, and where practicable, to organize from time to time temporary exhibitions of a similar nature elsewhere. 8. To do anything incidental to or conducive to carrying into effect all or any of the foregoing purposes. Second Schedule. Constitution and Proceedings of the Board of Governors. (1.) The Board of Governors shall consist of the responsible Minister (who shall be President) and the following other governors : —• One appointed by the Government of the Dominion of Canada ; One appointed by the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia ; One appointed by the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand ; One appointed by the Government of the Union of South Africa ; One appointed by the Government of the Irish Free State ; One appointed by the Government of Newfoundland ; One appointed by the Government of India ; One appointed by the Treasury ; Two, one of whom shall be in respect of mines, appointed by the Board of Trade; Three appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies ; One appointed by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries ; One appointed by the responsible Minister ; One representative of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, appointed by the Lord President of the Council; Not more than ten representatives of scientific and commercial interests, of whom one shall be a representative of the Royal Society appointed by the responsible Minister after consultation with such bodies representative of those interests as he may think fit: