Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000

Regulations relating to copying by libraries and archives.

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59.—(1) The Minister may make regulations for the purposes of this section and those regulations may make different provisions for different descriptions of libraries or archives and for different purposes.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Minister may prescribe the libraries and archives to which F54[sections 60 to 70] apply and may prescribe all or any of the following:

(a) the conditions that are to be complied with when a librarian or archivist of a prescribed library or prescribed archive makes and supplies F55[, or causes to be made and supplied,] a copy of any part of a work which has been lawfully made available to the public to a person requiring a copy;

(b) the conditions that are to be complied with when a librarian or archivist of a prescribed library or prescribed archive makes and supplies F55[, or causes to be made and supplied,] to another prescribed library or prescribed archive a copy of a work or part of a work which has been lawfully made available to the public and is required by that other prescribed library or prescribed archive;

(c) the conditions that are to be complied with before a librarian or archivist of a prescribed library or prescribed archive makes F55[, or causes to be made,] a copy of a work in the permanent collection of the prescribed library or prescribed archive in order to preserve or replace that work in the permanent collection of that library or archive, or in the permanent collection of another prescribed library or prescribed archive;

(d) the conditions that are to be complied with by a librarian or archivist of a prescribed library or prescribed archive when making or supplying F55[, or causing to be made or supplied,] a copy of the whole or part of certain works which have not been lawfully made available to the public from a work in the prescribed library or prescribed archive to a person requiring the copy.

Annotations

Amendments:

F54

Substituted (2.12.2019) by Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Act 2019 (19/2019), s. 16(a), S.I. No. 586 of 2019.

F55

Inserted (2.12.2019) by Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Act 2019 (19/2019), s. 16(b)-(d), S.I. No. 586 of 2019.

Editorial Notes:

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Power pursuant to section exercised (1.01.2001, 1.04.2001) by Copyright and Related Rights (Librarians and Archivists) (Copying of Protected Material) Regulations 2000 (S.I. No. 427 of 2000), in operation as per reg. 1(2), (3).