Public Libraries Act 1901
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Public Libraries Act, 1901
(1 Edw. 7.) CHAPTER 19.
An Act to amend the Acts relating to Public Libraries, Museums and Gymnasiums and to regulate the Liability of Managers of Libraries to Proceedings for Libel.
[17th August 1901]
B E it 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, as follows:
Amendment of Public Libraries Acts
1 Short title and construction.
1. This Act may be cited as thePublic Libraries Act, 1901, and shall be construed as one with the Public Libraries Act, 1892(herein-after referred to as the principal Act), and the Public Libraries (Amendment) Act, 1893, and those Acts and this Act may be together cited as the Public Libraries Acts, 1892 to 1901.
2 Qualification of library commissioners.
(1)2.—(1.) Any commissioners appointed for a library district under the principal Act may be either voters in the district or persons who, though not voters, would, if the district were a rural parish having a parish council, be qualified for election as parish councillors.
(2) (2.) Section forty-six of the Local Government Act, 1894 , relating to disqualifications for election to, or membership of, certain authorities, shall have effect as if a library authority, being a body of commissioners appointed under the principal Act, were one of the authorities mentioned in that section.
3 Power to library authority to make byelaws.
(1)3.—(1.) A library authority may make byelaws for all or any of the following purposes relating to any library, museum, art gallery or school which by virtue of the principal Act or this Act is under their control, that is to say:
(a ) for regulating the use of the same and of the contents thereof, and for protecting the same and the fittings, furniture and contents thereof from injury, destruction or misuse;
(b ) for requiring from any person using the same any guarantee or security against the loss of, or injury to, any book or other article;
(c ) for enabling the officers and servants of the library authority to exclude or remove therefrom persons committing any offence against the Libraries Offences Act, 1898 , or against the byelaws.
(2) (2.) All byelaws under this section shall be made subject and according to the provisions respecting byelaws contained in sections one hundred and eighty-two to one hundred and eight-six of the Public Health Act, 1875 , and those sections shall apply as if the expression ‘local authority’ therein included in every case a library authority.
(3) (3.) All offences and penalties under any such byelaw may be prosecuted and recovered in manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts.
4 Extension of 61 & 62 Vict. c. 53.
4. The Libraries Offences Act, 1898, shall apply to any museum, art gallery or school provided under the Public Libraries Act, 1892.
5 Power to library authorities to make agreements for use of library.
(1)5.—(1.) The library authorities of two or more library districts may agree to share, in such proportions and for such period as may be determined by the agreement, the cost of the purchase, erection, repair and maintenance of any library building in one of those districts, and also the cost of the purchase of books and newspapers for such library, and all other expenses connected with the same, and may also agree as to the management and use of the library, and as to the interchange, hire and use of books and newspapers belonging to such authorities respectively.
(2) (2.) This section shall apply, with the necessary modifications, to a museum, school for science, art gallery or school for art in like manner as to a library.
6 Amendment of 55 & 56 Vict. c. 53. s. 18, as to expenses in parishes.
6. In a library district, being a parish, the sanction of the parish meeting or vestry shall not be required annually for raising the sums from time to time due from the parish for defraying the expenses incurred by the library authority...
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