Chapter:	132AL	Title:	LIBRARIES REGULATION	Gazette Number:	L.N. 320 of 1999
Section:	19	Heading:	Library material borrowed to be returned within 14 days	Version Date:	01/01/2000

(1) All library material borrowed from a library shall, unless the librarian in any particular case gives permission to retain the library material for a longer period, be returned to the library within 14 days after the day upon which it was borrowed. (L.N. 248 of 1983; L.N. 235 of 1991)
(2) Where any library material is returned under subsection (1), it may be borrowed by the borrower for a further period of 14 days unless it is required by another borrower. (L.N. 248 of 1983)
(3) For the purposes of computing any period referred to in subsection (1) or (2)-

(a) section 71(1)(b) and (c) of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (Cap 1) shall not apply;
(b) where the last day of any such period is a day on which the library is closed to the public for the whole of that day, the period shall be extended to the next day on which the library is not closed to the public for the whole of that day; and
(c) a library shall be deemed to be closed to the public for the whole of a day on which it is closed to the public for any period by reason of there being in force a gale warning within the meaning of the Judicial Proceedings (Adjournment During Gale Warnings) Ordinance (Cap 62). (L.N. 231 of 1979)