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(b) admission to any special exhibition or function organized by the Authority in a

museum,

(c) the use of any facilities provided in a

museum.

(2) The Authority may, in any particular case, reduce or waive any fees fixed under this section.

Libraries

Provision

105K. (1) The Governor may, by order pub- for and

lished in the Gazerre, designate any building, or part managemenl of libraries. of a building, as a library.

Regulations relating to libraries.

(2) The management and control of every library shall he vested in the Authority.

(3) The Authority may establish and maintain mobile libraries for the use of the public.

1051. (1) The Authority may make regulations for 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

Provision for civic

centres

Thirteenth Schedufc.

destroyed or by way of compensation for the loss or damage sustained by the Govern- ment 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 pro- vided in any library and the removal from a library of any person;

(*) the terms on which articles may be de- posited in a library for safe-keeping whilst any person is in the library.

(2) Regulations made under paragraph (0) 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 recovery, in addition to the amount to be paid in respect of the replacement of any book, of a surcharge not exceeding twenty per cent of such amount.

(3) For the purposes of this section and any regulations made hereunder the expression “library" shall include mobile library.

Civic CentTES

105M. (1) The Governor may, by order pub- lished in the Gazerte, set aside any premises and the grounds appurtenant thereto for use as a civic centre.

(2) The premises specified in the Thirteenth Schedule shall be deemed to have been set aside under subsection (1) for use as a civic centre.

(3) The Authority shall, as soon as practicable, arrange for the preparation by the Director of Public Works of a plan of every civic centre and the grounds appurtenant thereto.

(4) Every plan prepared in accordance with subsection (3) shall be deposited in the appropriate Land Office.

(5) The Governor may, by order published in the Gazette, amend, add to or delete from, the Thirteenth Schedule.