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Books Registration

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CHAPTER 142

BOOKS REGISTRATION

To provide for the registration and preservation of copies of books first

printed, produced or published in Hong Kong.

Originally 60 of 1976.

L.N. 67/85.

[26 September 1976.]

IN 242/89

L.N. 246/76.

Short title.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Books Registration Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires Interpretation.

"book" includes---

(a) every volume, part or division of a volume:

(b) every magazine, journal, annual report, or other similar

kind of periodical publication; and

(c) every pamphlet, sheet of music, map, chart, table or plan

which is separately printed or produced,

but does not include any book specified in the Schedule;

"new book" means a book which-

(a) after the commencement of this Ordinance is either-

(i) printed or produced for the first time in Hong Kong:

or

(ii) published for the first time in Hong Kong, regard- less of where it was originally printed or produced; or

(b) is a photographic copy photographically copied in Hong Kong for the first time after the commencement of this Ordinance from a book printed, produced or published outside Hong Kong:

"publisher" means-

(a) in the case of a book published in Hong Kong, the

publisher thereof or his agent in Hong Kong;

(b) in the case of a book printed or produced in, but not published in, Hong Kong, the agent in Hong Kong of the publisher or, in the absence of an agent. the person primarily responsible for the printing or production of the book;

(c) in the case of a photographic copy of a book, the agent in Hong Kong of the publisher or, in the absence of an agent. the person in Hong Kong primarily responsible for the photographic copying of the book;

"Secretary" means the Secretary for Municipal Services({ Added,

L.N. 67/85)

Recreation and Culture

(Amended, L.N. 67/85)

Schedule.

2N 242 of89.