Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964

26 Short title, repeals etc., commencement and extent

(1) This Act may be cited as the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964.

(2) The enactments specified in the first and second columns of Schedule 3 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

(3) In the proviso to section 94 of the Local Government Act 1933 inserted by section 10(1) of the Education Act 1946 (by virtue of which teachers in institutions maintained or assisted by a local education authority are excepted from disqualification from membership of local authority committees appointed for certain purposes), the following shall be substituted for paragraph (c):—

“(c) appointed under this Act for purposes connected with the execution of the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964;”.

(4) In section 193(5) of the Local Government Act 1933 (which restricts the sums which can be required to be raised in any financial year to meet the expenses of a parish meeting), after the words " the adoptive Acts " there shall be inserted the words " or the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 " ; and in Schedule 1 to the Parish Councils Act 1957 (which specifies expenses of a parish council which are to be disregarded for the purposes of section 193(3) of the Local Government Act 1933), the following shall be substituted for paragraph 2:—

“2 Any expenditure under the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964”.

(5) Byelaws in force immediately before the commencement of this Act under section 7 of the Museums and Gymnasiums Act 1891 or section 3 of the Public Libraries Act 1901 shall not be invalidated by the repeal of those Acts but shall have effect as if they had been made, and confirmed by the Secretary of State, under section 19 of this Act

(6) Paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 6(6) of this Act shall apply in relation to a parish council which at the commencement of this Act ceases to be a library authority as they apply in relation to the council of a non-county borough or urban district which at any time ceases to be a library authority.

(7) This Act shall come into force on 1st April 1965.

(8) This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland.