Part IX Functions
Miscellaneous functions
206 Public libraries and museums (England).
The local authorities for the purposes of the M1Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 in England shall be county councils, F1. . ., 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.