http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2712/regulation/5/made

The Library Charges (England and Wales) Regulations 1991

Library loans and fines

School library services

Libraries

Reference libraries

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2017-03-30

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Section 8(1) of the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 prohibits a library authority whose area is in England or Wales from charging anyone other than another library authority for library facilities made available by the authority except as provided by the section. Section 8(2) of that Act, as substituted by section 154 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989, empowers the Lord President of the Council, who acts in relation to library authorities whose areas are in England, and the Secretary of State, who acts in relation to library authorities whose areas are in Wales, to make regulations authorising those library authorities to make charges for such library facilities made available by them as may be specified in the regulations and to make provision as regards charges by library authorities for library facilities, other than provision requiring the making of charges, as they think fit.