Copyright Act 1836
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1836 c. 110 |
| Year | 1836 |
(6 & 7 Will. 4) C A P. CX.
[20th August 1836]
'WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifty-fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty KingGeorge the Third, intituled , it is among other Things enacted, that Eleven Copies of every published Book shall be gratuitously delivered to Eleven Public Libraries named in the said Act: And whereas the Provisions of the said Act have in certain respects operated to the Injury of Authors and Publishers, and have in some Cases checked or prevented the Publication of Works of great Utility and Importance, and it is therefore expedient that the said Actshould be amended:' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That so much of the said recited Act as requires that a Copy of every Book which shall be printed and published shall be delivered in manner therein mentioned to the Warehouse Keeper of the Company of Stationers for the Use of the Library ofSion College , the Libraries of the Four Universities of Scotland , and the King's Inns Library at Dublin , shall be and the same is hereby repealed.
II Compensation to be made to the said Libraries out of Consolidated Fund.
II. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer or for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, from Time to Time to issue and pay out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom ofGreat Britain and Ireland , to the Person or Persons or Body Politic or Corporate, Proprietors or Managers of each of the aforesaid Libraries, such an annual Sum as may be equal in Value to and a Compensation for the Loss which any such Library may sustain by reason of the said Act being repealed, so far as relates to such Library; such annual Compensation to be ascertained and determined according to the Value of the Books which may have been actually received by each such Library, in such Manner as the Commissioners of His...
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