{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-libraries-inquiries-procedure-rules-1992/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-libraries-inquiries-procedure-rules-1992/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1627",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Libraries (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-libraries-inquiries-procedure-rules-1992",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires:—\n“the Act” means the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964;\n“appointed person” means the person appointed by the Secretary of State to hold the inquiry;\n“inquiry” means an inquiry to which these Rules apply;\n“library authority” means an authority as defined in section 25 of the Act in respect of which an inquiry is held or is proposed to be held;\n“pre-inquiry meeting” means a meeting held before an inquiry to consider what may be done with a view to securing that it is conducted efficiently and expeditiously;\n“relevant date” means the date of the Secretary of State’s written notice to the library authority of his intention to cause an inquiry to be held, and “relevant notice” means that notice;\n“statement of case” means a written statement which contains full particulars of the case which a person proposes to put forward at an inquiry, and a list of any documents which that person intends to refer to or put in evidence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1964 c. 75."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The functions of the Secretary of State under the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 (except the functions under section 9), in so far as they are exercisable in relation to England, were transferred to the Lord President of the Council by article 4 of the Transfer of Functions (Arts, Libraries and National Heritage) Order 1983 (S.I. 1983/879). The functions of the Lord President of the Council were transferred to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster by article 2 of and Part I of Schedule 1 to the Transfer of Functions (Arts, Libraries and National Heritage) Order 1984(S.I. 1984/1814) and were re-transferred to the Lord President of the Council by article 2 of and Part I of Schedule 1 to the Transfer of Functions (Arts, Libraries and National Heritage) Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/600). The functions were returned from the Lord President of the Council to the Secretary of State by article 3 of and Part I of Schedule 1 to the Transfer of Functions (National Heritage) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/1311)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1627/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:19:52.936239+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."
}