{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/libraries-offences-act-1898/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/libraries-offences-act-1898/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/61-62/53",
  "legislation_title": "Libraries Offences Act 1898",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/libraries-offences-act-1898",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application of Act.",
  "text": "This Act shall apply—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) to any library or reading-room maintained by a Societythat is a registered society within the meaning of the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014, or is registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1974, or by any registered Trade Union.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 3(a) repealed by Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 (c. 75), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 3 substituted (1.8.2014) by virtue of Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 (c. 14), s. 154, Sch. 4 para. 20 (with Sch. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Friendly Societies Act 1974 (c. 46), Sch. 10 para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1974 c. 46."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/61-62/53/section/3",
    "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."
}