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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/library-charges-england-and-wales-regulations-1991/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/library-charges-england-and-wales-regulations-1991/regulation-2.json",
  "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": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations–\n“computer” means any device for storing and processing information;\n“library apparatus” means electronic or other apparatus intended for use with library material;\n“library material” means\n(a) words, figures, images, sounds or data recorded in or on any medium;\n(b) toys; and\n(c) educational artefacts; and\n“records” has the meaning assigned to it by section 8(1) of the Local Government (Records) Act 1962.\n(2) Any reference in these Regulations to copying and copies shall be construed in accordance with section 17 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and other expressions shall have, unless the context otherwise requires, the meaning assigned to them by the 1964 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1962 c. 56."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1988 c. 48."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2712/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:33:28.931036+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."
}