Victorian Consolidated Legislation

LIBRARIES ACT 1988

No. 80 of 1988
Version incorporating amendments as at 14 February 2008

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Section Page

   PART 1-PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purposes
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Definitions
   4.      State collection

   PART 2-Repealed

           5-15. Repealed

   PART 3-LIBRARY BOARD OF VICTORIA

   16.     Establishment of the Board
   17.     Repealed
   18.     Functions
   19.     Powers
   20.     Board to represent Crown
   21.     Board subject to control of Minister
   22.     Members
   23.     Terms and conditions of appointment
   24.     Membership of Board not office of profit
   25.     Meetings of the Board
   25A.    Resolutions without meetings
   26.     Conflicts of interest
   27.     Committees
   28.     Delegation
   29.     Chief Executive Officer of the State Library
   30.     Employment of staff
   31.     Accounts
   32.     Borrowing and investment powers
           33-35. Repealed
   36.     Transfer to Consolidated Fund

   PART 4-LIBRARY PURPOSES TRUSTS

   37.     Leasing
   38.     Borrowings
   39.     Default
   40.     Application of money
   41.     Trustees may make regulations
   42.     Surrender of certain library land
   43.     Transfer or surrender of certain land held in trust
   44.     Transfers, conveyances and surrenders generally
   45.     No compensation payable
   46.     Power to demand and receive charges etc.
   47.     Accounts and audit
   48.     Provision of Crown grant or trust instrument to prevail

   PART 5-MISCELLANEOUS

   49.     Legal deposit
   50.     Sale, disposal or exchange of object in State collection
   51.     Disposal of unclaimed property
   52.     Board may make by-laws
   52A.    Land to vest in the Board
   52B.    Supreme Court-limitation of jurisdiction
   53.     Regulations

   PART 6-REPEALS, CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS
   AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

           54, 55. Repealed
   56.     Transitional provision
   57.     Determination of staff to be transferred
   58.     Abolition of Libraries Board
   59.     Council of the State Library of Victoria
   60.     Director
   61.     Transfer of staff
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           SCHEDULE-Land Permanently Reserved for Public Library
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           ENDNOTES
           1. General Information
           2. Table of Amendments
           3. Explanatory Details