The object is a double bass made in 1855 by John Devereux, to be used in an exhibition of musical instruments in the museum. The double bass is on loan from a Polish private collector, borrowed following the Museum's successful application as a borrowing institution under the Protection of Cultural Objects on Loan Scheme. The museum has now received two demands for the double bass, one from a claimant who claims that the double bass had been owned by his father but confiscated by the Nazis in Poland in 1940, and another from a creditor of the private collector who demands that the object be returned to Poland or he will initiate proceedings in Australia seeking the seizure and forfeiture of the double bass.

Advise the Director, giving a full explanation on all relevant points of law