(14 of 1955).
Management of public libraries.
By-laws.
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"urban area" means the Colony excluding the New Territories except
New Kowloon;
"Urban Council" means the Urban Council constituted under the Urban
Council Ordinance 1955,
3. The management of such libraries for the use of the public as may from time to time be maintained by the Government in the urban area is bereby vested in the Urban Council.
4. (1) The Urban Council may make by-laws for all or any of the following purposes-
(a) the powers, duties and functions of the librarian;
(b) fixing the hours during which any library shall be open to the
public;
(c) regulating admission to any library or the use of any library or
any of the facilities provided in any library;
(d) regulating the lending and borrowing of any of the books in
any library:
(e) requiring a guaranice or security to be given by any person
borrowing books from a library:
(f) prescribing fees, charges and penalties to be paid by any person
in respect of books borrowed from any library;
(g) regulating the conduct of persons in any library;
(A) protecting any library and the fittings. furniture and books
therein, and any other contents thereof, from damage;
() the assessment of the amount to be paid in respect of the repair or replacement of any book which has been lost, damaged or destroyed or by way of compensation for the loss or damage sustained by the Government by reason of the fact that any book has been lost, damaged or destroyed, and the recovery of any such amount:
()) enabling any person to be refused the use of any library or any of the facilities provided in any library and the removal from a library of any person;
(*) the terms on which articles may be deposited in a library for
safe-keeping whilst any person is in the library.
(2) By-laws made under paragraph (1) of subsection (1) may provide that, in a case where one of the books forming a set of books in a library has been lost, damaged or destroyed, the amount to be paid in respect of the replacement of that book may be assessed by reference to the cost of replacing all the books in the set and may authorize the
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recovery, in addition to the amount to be paid in respect of the replace- ment of any book, of a surcharge not exceeding twenty per cent of such amount.
(3) By-laws made under this section may provide that contra- vention of any of the provisions of such by-laws shall constitute an offence and may prescribe penalties therefor not excceding a fine of one hundred dollars.
(4) All by-laws made by the Urban Council under this section shall be submitted to the Governor and shall be subject to the approval of the Legislative Council.
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which passed the Legislative Council on the 15th day of September, 1965, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill.
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Deputy Clerk of Councils.
(Secretariat GR.1/3231/64)