New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COPYRIGHT ACT 1879 - SECT 5

5 Copies of books to be delivered within a certain time to certain libraries

(1) A printed copy of the whole of every book which shall be first published in this colony after the passing of this Act together with all maps prints or other engravings belonging thereto finished and coloured in the same manner as the best copies of the same shall be published and also of any second or subsequent edition which shall be so published with any additions or alterations whether the same shall be in letterpress or in the maps prints or other engravings belonging thereto and whether the first edition of such book shall have been published before or after the passing of this Act and also of any second or subsequent edition of every such book of which the first or some preceding edition shall not have been delivered for the use of the Free Public Library and the Library of the University of Sydney bound sewed or stitched together and upon the best paper on which the same shall be printed shall within two calendar months after the day on which any such book shall be first sold published or offered for sale within this colony be delivered by or on behalf of the publisher thereof at the said Libraries.

(2) A printed copy of the whole of every book which shall be first published in New South Wales after the passing of the Copyright (Amendment) Act 1952 together with all maps prints or other engravings belonging thereto finished and coloured in the same manner as the best copies of the same shall be published and also of any second or subsequent edition which shall be so published with any additions or alterations whether the same shall be in letterpress or in the maps prints or other engravings belonging thereto and whether the first edition of such book shall have been published before or after the passing of the Copyright (Amendment) Act 1952 and also of any second or subsequent edition of every such book of which the first or some preceding edition shall not have been delivered for the use of the Parliamentary Library of New South Wales bound sewed or stitched together and upon the best paper on which the same shall be printed shall within two calendar months after the day on which any such book shall be first sold published or offered for sale within New South Wales be delivered by or on behalf of the publisher thereof at the said library.