Tamworth Regional Council is required to regularly update and review its collection of policies. As part of this process, Council has been advised that specific wording is required by the Cultural Gift Program for the donations received into Councils collections.

Furthermore, the need to update our current Public Art Policy is required to address our growing public art collection and to ensure best practice for acquisition, documentation, maintenance and de-accession/ decommission if the need arises.

As part of this process, it has been identified the need to add additional wording surrounding any donations that comes into the Council collection under the Australian Taxation Office's Cultural Gift Program.

The wording below is now a recommended requirement for all Council's collection policies:

“if any items donated under the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program are removed from the collection, they will not be returned to donors as they have already received the benefit of a tax deduction for the gift”.