Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Libraries Act 1988 - SECT 3

Definitions

3. Definitions



(1) In this Act-



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authorised deposit-taking institution has the same meaning as in the
Banking Act 1959 of the Commonwealth;



Board means the Library Board of Victoria constituted under section 16;





Chief Executive Officer (except in section 43) means the Chief Executive
Officer of the Library Board of Victoria appointed under section 29;



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information organisation means a person who provides a prescribed information
service or a service included in a prescribed class of information services;

library land means land granted by the Crown to trustees for library purposes,
whether-

   (a)  the trustees hold the land as trustees for, or as the governing body
        of, or otherwise on behalf of, an unincorporated association; or



   (b)  the trust is created by Crown grant, deed, will or any other
        instrument whatever- and in sections 37 to 41 includes land held by
        trustees for library purposes otherwise than by grant from the Crown;

library material includes books, periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets,
manuscripts, films, sound recordings, musical scores, maps, charts, plans,
pictures, photographs, prints and other recorded material, whether in writing
or in some other form, and whether stored on tape, microfilm, microfiche, disc
or any other method of information storage;

library purposes means the purposes of-

   (a)  a free library, reading room, mechanics' institute or trades' hall; or

   (b)  a body corporate the objects or purposes of which include the
        establishment or conduct of a free library, reading room, mechanics'
        institute or trades' hall; or

   (c)  the members for the time being of an unincorporated body formed to
        establish or conduct a free library, reading room, mechanics'
        institute or trades' hall; metropolitan area means-

   (a)  metropolitan area within the meaning of section 201 of the Melbourne
        and Metropolitan Board of Works Act 1958 (as in force immediately
        before its repeal); or

   (b)  any area declared by the Governor in Council under subsection (2) to
        be the metropolitan area;

publication includes the whole or any part of-

   (a)  any printed book, periodical, newspaper, pamphlet, musical score, map,
        chart, plan, picture, photograph, print and any other printed matter;
        and

   (b)  any film (including a microfilm and a microfiche), negative, tape,
        disc, sound track and any other device in which one or more visual
        images, sounds or other data are embodied so as to be capable (with or
        without the aid of some other equipment) of being reproduced from it;

trustees-

   (a)  in relation to library land for which there is a committee of
        management, means the trustees for the time being acting on the
        recommendation of that committee; and

   (b)  in relation to library land for which there is no committee of
        management, means the trustees for the time being of the trust on
        which the library land is held.

(2) The Governor in Council may, by Order published in the Government Gazette,
declare an area to be the metropolitan area for the purposes of this section.

(3) An Order made under subsection (2) may apply, adopt or incorporate any
matter contained in any document formulated, issued, prescribed or published
by any person, whether-

   (a)  wholly or partially or as amended by order or other instrument; or

   (b)  as formulated, issued, prescribed or published at the time the order
        is made or at any time before then.

(4) Subsection (3) does not apply to the incorporation of a map or plan of an
area of land unless the map or plan is lodged in the Central Plan Office of
the Department of Sustainability and Environment.