{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/library-charges-england-and-wales-regulations-1991/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2712",
  "legislation_title": "The Library Charges (England and Wales) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/library-charges-england-and-wales-regulations-1991",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "LIBRARIES\nMade 3rd December 1991\nComing into force 1st January 1992\nWhereas a draft of these Regulations has been approved by each House of Parliament in accordance with section 8(5A) of the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 (“the 1964 Act”):\nNow therefore, the Lord President of the Council, in relation to library authorities whose areas are in England, and the Secretary of State, in relation to library authorities whose areas are in Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 8(2), (5), (5A) and (7) of the 1964 Act and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:–",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1964 c. 75; section 8 was amended by paragraph 8 of Schedule 7 to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48) and by section 154 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42)."
    }
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  "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."
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