http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2008/8/section/1/enactedLibraries Act (Northern Ireland) 2008LibrariesBusiness and industryAncient monumentsChildren's librariesReference librariesGovernment Printer for Northern Ireland2021-07-30The Northern Ireland Library Authority
1The Northern Ireland Library Authority1

There shall be a body corporate to be known as the Northern Ireland Library Authority.

2

Schedule 1 applies in relation to the Authority.

3

The Authority shall be the library authority for Northern Ireland.

4

Accordingly, an Education and Library Board established by the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (NI 3) shall cease to be the library authority for its area.

5

The Department may make one or more schemes for the transfer of designated property, rights and liabilities of education and library boards to the Authority.

6

On the transfer date, the designated property, rights and liabilities are transferred to and vest in the Authority in accordance with the scheme.

7

Schedule 2 contains further provisions relating to a scheme.

8

In this section and that Schedule—

“designated”, in relation to a scheme, means specified in or determined in accordance with the scheme;

“scheme” means a scheme under this section;

“the transfer date”, in relation to a scheme, means the date specified by the scheme as the date on which it is to have effect.

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