{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/libraries-offences-act-1898/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/libraries-offences-act-1898/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/61-62/53",
  "legislation_title": "Libraries Offences Act 1898",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/libraries-offences-act-1898",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Penalty for offences.",
  "text": "Any person who, in any library or reading-room to which this Act applies, to the annoyance or disturbance of any person using the same,—\n(1) behaves in a disorderly manner;\n(2) uses violent, abusive, or obscene language;\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) or who, after proper warning, persists in remaining therein beyond the hours fixed for the closing of such library or reading-room,\nshall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 2(3) repealed (1.9.2007) by Gambling Act 2005 (c. 19), s. 358(1), Sch. 16 para. 2, Sch. 17 (with ss. 352, 354, Sch. 16 paras. 21); S.I. 2006/3272, art. 2(4)(5), Sch. 3B (with arts. 7-11 arts. 7-12 Sch. 4) (as inserted by S.I. 2007/2169, arts. 3, 6, Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c.48, SIF 39:1), s. 46"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/61-62/53/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:27:16.703272+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."
}