Ancradlentent of section 105K,
Repeal and replacement of
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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 bolding of classes or exhibitions, the viewing or hearing of library material, or for other like purposes of an educational or cultural nature, and i cannexion therewith may provide the requisite equipment and facilities."
4. Section 105L of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following-
**Regulatio rebuting bes libraries.
105L. (1) The Authority may make regulations for any of the following purposes----
(0) prescribing the powers, duties and functions of the
librarian;
(6) fixing the hours during which any library shall be
open to the publics
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(c) regulating admission to any libcary or any part thereof or the use of any library or say part thereof or any of the equipment, facilities or library material provided in any library;
(d) regulating the lending and borrowing of library
material in any library;
(e) requiring a guarantee or security to be given by any person borrowing library "material "from a library;
( regulating the conduct of persons in any library; (g) protecting way library and the fittings, furniture. equipment and library material therein, and any other contents thereof, from damage;
(h) providing for the assessment and recovery of—
(0) the amount to be paid by way of compensa- tion for the loss or damage sustained by the Government or the Urban Council by reason of the fact that any fitting, furniture, equipment er library material has been lost, damaged or destroyed; and
(i) a surcharge not exceeding 20 per cent of such amount;
(0) enabling any person to be refused the use of any library or any of the equipment, facilities of library material in any library and the removal from a library of any person;
(stipulating the terms on which articles may be deposited in a library for safe-keeping whilst any person is in the library;
(A) providing for the fees, charges and penalties to be paid by any person in respect of the borrowing of library material from any library, the use or
reservation of library material in any library, the deposit of articles in a library for safe-keeping and the use of rooms, equipment or facilities provided in any part of any library:
( providing for the general regulation and manage-
ment of any library,
(2) Regulations under subsection (1(k) may authorize the Urban Council or the Director of Urban Services to determine from time to time by notice in the Gazerre all or any of the fees, charges and penalties mentioned in that subsection.
(3) Nothing in this section shall be taken to authorize the infringement of copyright in any library material.
(4) For the purposes of this section and any regula tions made bereunder, unless the context otherwise requires. the expression "library" includes a mobile library.".
5. The Third Schedule to the principal Ordinance is amended in Accadment of the item relating to section 105K(2) and (3) by deleting “105K(2) and (3)" Third Schedule. in the first column and substituting the following-
"105K(2), (3) and (4)".
Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 18th day of
July, 1979.
Pla
Clerk to the Legislative Council.
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.
Pla
Clerk to the Legislative Council.