# Local Government Act 1972, Section 206: Public libraries and museums (England).


The local authorities for the purposes of the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 in England shall be county councils, . . ., London borough councils, district councils, the Common Council and the Council of the Isles of Scilly and, subject to the provisions of section 5 of that Act, each of the following authorities, that is to say—
(a) the council of a non-metropolitan county;
(b) the council of a London borough and the Common Council;
(c) the council of a metropolitan district;
shall be a library authority for those purposes.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/70/section/206 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1972/section-206
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