West Ben. Act XXXIX of 1979.

West Ben. Act XXXIX of 1979. GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL LAW DEPARTMENT Legislative West Bengal Act XLI of 1994 THE WEST BENGAL PUBLIC LIBRARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1994. [Passed by the West Bengal Legislature.] [Assent of the Governor was first published in the Calcutta Gazette, Extraordinary, of the 19th August, 1994.] [19th August, 1994.] An Act to amend the West Bengal Public Libraries Act, 1979. WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the West Bengal Pubic Libraries Act, 1979, for the purposes and in the manner hereinafter appearing; It is hereby enacted in the Forty-fifth Year of the Republic of India, by the Legislature of West Bengal, as follows:- 1. (1) This Act may be called the West Bengal Public Libraries (Amendment) Act, 1994. (2) It shall come into force on such date as the State. Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. 2. In the long title of the West Bengal Public Libraries Act, 1979 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), for the words "library service", the words "library and information service" shall be substituted. 3. In the preamble to the principal Act, for the words "library service", the words "library and information service" shall be substituted. In section 2 of the principal Act,— in clause (ff), the words "and includes the State Central Library" shall be omitted; clause (i) shall be omitted; for clause (j), the following clause shall be substituted:— '(j) "Public Library" means a library open to the public, and includes— (i) a Government Public Library, (ii) the State Central Library, (iii) a sponsored public library declared as such under section 16A, or (iv) such other library as the Government may declare to be a public library;'; clause (jj) shall be omitted. Short title and commencement. Amendment of long title of

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