Part I Copyright
Chapter III Acts Permitted in relation to Copyright Works
Libraries and archives
38 Copying by librarians: articles in periodicals.
(1)
The librarian of a prescribed library may, if the prescribed conditions are complied with, make and supply a copy of an article in a periodical without infringing any copyright in the text, in any illustrations accompanying the text or in the typographical arrangement.
(2)
The prescribed conditions shall include the following—
F1(a)
that copies are supplied only to persons satisfying the librarian that they require them for the purposes of—
(i)
research for a non-commercial purpose, or
(ii)
private study,
and will not use them for any other purpose;
(b)
that no person is furnished with more than one copy of the same article or with copies of more than one article contained in the same issue of a periodical; and
(c)
that persons to whom copies are supplied are required to pay for them a sum not less than the cost (including a contribution to the general expenses of the library) attributable to their production.