New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LIBRARY ACT 1939 - SECT 15

15 Regulations

(1) The Governor may make regulations not inconsistent with this Act prescribing all matters which by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) regulations may be made for or with respect to:

(a) the management and control of the State Library and local libraries that are in the areas of local authorities that have adopted this Act and have not revoked the adoption of this Act,

(e) regulating the use of libraries so as to protect the library and the fittings, furniture and contents thereof from injury, destruction or misuse,

(f) the giving by a person using the library of any guarantee or security against loss of or injury to any item of library material and the payment of compensation, whether by reference to the value of the item or to any other prescribed matter, for any such loss or injury,

(g) regulating the conduct of persons using a library and providing for the exclusion or removal from a library of persons committing any offence against the regulations,

(h) the making of charges in prescribed cases for the use of a library, library service or information service and the granting of approval by the Council to any such charge,

(i) authorising the Council or a local authority to provide, control and manage, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, a library, library service or information service (in conjunction with any library, library service or information service being provided, controlled and managed by the Council or the local authority) at any school, hospital or other institution not open to the public,

(j) the admission or exclusion of the public or any person to or from a library or any branch or department or part thereof,

(k) the management of the various branches or departments of a library,

(l) prescribing the conditions subject to which the use or reading of library material or the loan thereof or the making of copies or extracts therefrom may be allowed,

(m) regulating the conduct of the proceedings of the Council, including the times, places and conduct of its meetings, and

(n) the perusal and examination of books, manuscripts, paintings, engravings and other library material referred to in section 7D.

(2A) Regulations may be made so as to:

(a) apply to and in respect of one or more of the following corporations and places:

(i) the Council,

(ii) the State Library,

(iii) local authorities that have adopted this Act and have not revoked the adoption of this Act, and

(iv) local libraries that are in the areas of the local authorities referred to in subparagraph (iii), or

(b) apply differently according to such factors as may be specified in the regulations.

(2B) A regulation may authorise any matter or thing to be from time to time determined, applied or regulated by any person or body specified therein.

(3) The regulations may impose a penalty not exceeding 2 penalty units for any breach of the regulations.

(3A) Proceedings for an offence against the regulations are to be dealt with summarily before the Local Court.

(4) Where any by-law, ordinance or regulation made under any Act is inconsistent with any regulation made under this Act the provisions of the regulation made under this Act shall prevail, and the provisions of the first-mentioned by-law, ordinance or regulation shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, have no force or effect.