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Section 206: Public libraries and museums (England).

Local Government Act 1972 · 1972 c. 70View on legislation.gov.uk

Part IX: Functions

The local authorities for the purposes of the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 in England shall be county councils, . . ., London borough councils, district councils, the Common Council and the Council of the Isles of Scilly and, subject to the provisions of section 5 of that Act, each of the following authorities, that is to say—

the council of a non-metropolitan county;
the council of a London borough and the Common Council;
the council of a metropolitan district;

shall be a library authority for those purposes.

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