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Ord. No. 50/79
PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES
(AMENDMENT)
HONG KONG
No. 50 OF 1979
I assent.
L.S.
Short title.
Amendment of section 2. (Cap. 132.)
Amendment of section 105K.
Repeal and replacement of section 105L.
JACK CATER, Acting Governor.
19th July, 1979.
An Ordinance to amend the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance.
[20th July, 1979]
Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.
1.
This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Health and Urban Services (Amendment) Ordinance 1979.
2.
Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is amended-
(a) by deleting the definition of "book" and substituting the
following-
""book" includes a document, periodical, magazine, news- paper, pamphlet, music-score, picture, print, engraving, etching, deed, photograph, map, chart, plan or manu- script, and any other article or thing of a like nature provided for the use of the public in any library;"; (b) in the definition of "librarian", by deleting "Senior" and sub-
stituting the following-
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"Chief";
(c) by inserting after the definition of "library" the following-
"library material" means any book, film, gramophone record, tape, and any other thing on or in which any in- formation or image is written, recorded, stored or reproduced;"; and
(d) in the definition of "mobile library", by deleting "books" and
substituting the following-
3.
"library material”.
Section 105K of the principal Ordinance is amended by inserting after subsection (3) the following subsection-
"(4) The Authority may set aside and use any part of a library for the purposes of study or research, the holding of classes or exhibitions, the viewing or hearing of library material, or for other like purposes of an educational or cultural nature, and in connexion therewith may provide the requisite equipment and facilities.".
4. Section 105L of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following-
"Regulations relating to libraries.
105L. (1) The Authority may make regulations for any of the following purposes-
(a) prescribing the powers, duties and functions of the
librarian;
"