Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations (1) A person attending
a library shall comply with any reasonable direction of a librarian and shall
not wilfully obstruct any officer or servant of the library authority or the
Board in the execution of his duty or wilfully disturb, interrupt or annoy any
other person in the proper use of the library.
(2) A person shall
not —
(a) lie
on the chairs, tables, floor or any other part of the library;
(b)
smoke, sleep or partake of refreshment in the library,
except in special
areas, if any, specified by the library authority as being set aside for such
activities or any one of them.
(3) Except with the
consent of the librarian, a person shall not offer any goods or services for
sale in a library.
(4) A person shall not
behave in a disorderly manner, or use violent, abusive or obscene language in
a library.
(5) A person, other
than an officer or servant of the library authority shall not, after proper
warning, remain in the library beyond the hour fixed for the closing of the
library.
(6) A person shall not
carelessly, negligently or maliciously soil, tear, cut, deface, damage, injure
or destroy any book or any object forming part of the contents of the library,
whether within the library or elsewhere.
(7) A person shall not
take a tracing from any book except through a protective screen and with the
permission of the librarian.
(8) A person shall
not, without abiding by the rules of the library authority, take or cause to
be taken from the library or receive or be in possession of any book forming
part of the contents of the library, whether or not the property of the Board
or of the library authority.
(9) A person shall not
misplace or secrete any book or any record of a book in the library with the
intent to withhold its use from others.