{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-library-act-1972/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-library-act-1972/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1972/54",
  "legislation_title": "British Library Act 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-library-act-1972",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Further provisions as to the Board.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) The Board shall, not later than such date in each year as the Secretary of State may determine, send to him a report of the proceedings and activities of the Board during the previous twelve months , which report shall include a report on the working of the Public Lending Right Scheme 1982, and the Secretary of State shall lay copies of the report before each House of Parliament.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 4(1) repealed (1.2.2004) by Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 (c. 28), s. 16(1), Sch. (with s. 16(4)); S.I. 2004/130, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 4(2) repealed (1.8.1993) by 1993 c. 10, s. 98(2), Sch. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(3) inserted (1.10.2013) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of the Registrar of Public Lending Right) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/2352), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 3 (with art. 8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/54/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:48:39.654720+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}