{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-libraries-and-museums-act-1964/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-libraries-and-museums-act-1964/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1964/75",
  "legislation_title": "Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-libraries-and-museums-act-1964",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Library authorities and areas.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) The functions of a library authority as such shall be exercisable within an area (in this Act referred to as a “library area”) consisting of the administrative area of the authority, or . . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nin the case of a joint board established under section 5 below, consisting of the areas which, if the authorities constituting the board were library authorities, would form their library areas,\nand may also be exercised elsewhere than within its library area if the authority thinks fit.\n(3) In Wales, county councils and county borough councils shall, subject to section 5 below, be library authorities for the purposes of this Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 4(1), 6(1)–(4), 15(4), 18, 21(2) repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 30"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 4(2) from “-(a)-(b)” repealed (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 66(6)(8), Sch. 16 para. 24(1)(a), Sch. 18 (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), 66(7), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 4, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 4(3) added (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 66(6), Sch. 16 para. 24(2) (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), 66(7), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 4, Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1964/75/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:58:49.797320+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."
}