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Legal Deposit Act, 1997 (Act No. 54 of 1997)

6. Places of legal deposit

 

(1) The places of legal deposit shall be—
(a) the City Library Services, Bloemfontein;
(b) the Library of Parliament, Cape Town;
(c) the Natal Society Library, Pietermaritzburg;
(d) the South African Library, Cape Town;
(e) the State Library, Pretoria;
(f) the National Film, Video and Sound Archives, Pretoria, for purposes of certain categories of documents as prescribed; and
(g) any other library or institution prescribed by the Minister for purposes of certain prescribed categories of documents.

 

(2)
(a) The Minister shall, on the recommendation of the Member of the Executive Council responsible for libraries in each province, designate at least one place of legal deposit in each province to serve as an official publications depository, which shall be entitled to receive a copy of every official publication but not of other categories of documents.
(b) Except in the case of subsection (1)(b), an official publications depository maybe designated in an existing place of legal deposit if the Minister deems this advisable: Provided that such a place of legal deposit shall retain its right under section 2(1) also to receive documents other than official publication.

 

(3) The Minister or the relevant Member of the Executive Council for each province shall, from funds voted for that purpose by Parliament or the relevant Provincial Legislature, as the case may be, disburse such sums as are necessary to places of legal deposit to enable them to fulfil their obligations.