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528B PDFTitle:COPYRIGHT (LIBRARIES) REGULATIONSGazette Number:
Regulation:6Heading:Prescribed conditions under section 7(1) and (3)Version Date:30/06/1997

(1) The following conditions shall be conditions prescribed for the purposes of section 7(1) and (3) of the Act (which relate, respectively, to copies of articles in periodical publications and copies of parts of other works)-

        (a) no copy of any work or any part of a work shall be made for or supplied to any person unless he has delivered to the librarian concerned, or to some person appointed by the librarian for that purpose, a declaration and undertaking in writing in relation to that work or part, substantially in accordance with the form set out in the Third Schedule and signed in the manner therein indicated;
        (b) for the purposes of subsection (1) (which relates to copies of articles in periodical publications) no copy extending to more than one article in any one publication shall be made;
        (c) for the purposes of subsection (3) (which relates to copies of parts of other works) no copy extending to more than a reasonable proportion of a work shall be made;
        (d) persons to whom copies are supplied shall be required to pay for such copies a sum not less than the cost (including a contribution to the general expenses of the library) attributable to their production.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(c)-
        (a) a reasonable proportion of a work means-
          (i) in the case of a single extract, not more than 4000 words;
          (ii) in the case of a series of extracts, not more than 3000 words per extract, with a total of not more than 8000 words; and
          (iii) in any case, not more than 10 per cent of the work; and
        (b) poems, essays and other short literary works shall be regarded as whole works and not as parts of the volume in which they are published.